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Text-to-Image

Human-preference Elo for text-to-image models from the Artificial Analysis Arena — open-weight and proprietary, ranked head-to-head.

Source: Artificial Analysis Arena · Updated Jun 17, 2026 · 20 models
LLM IntelligenceText-to-ImageImage EditingText-to-VideoImage-to-VideoText-to-SpeechOpen LLMMost DownloadedCommunity Favorites
#ModelElo
1
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604
HiDream
1,189
2
ERNIE Image
Baidu
1,168
3
ERNIE Image Turbo
Baidu
1,160
4
FLUX.2 [dev]
Black Forest Labs
1,159
5
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
Fal
1,156
6
HunyuanImage 3.0
Tencent
1,122
7
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
Black Forest Labs
1,122
8
HiDream-O1-Image
HiDream
1,115
9
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Tencent
1,112
10
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev
HiDream
1,087
11
FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9B
Black Forest Labs
1,082
12
HunyuanImage 2.1
Tencent
1,069
13
FLUX.2 [klein] 4B
Black Forest Labs
1,067
14
HiDream-I1-Dev
HiDream
1,061
15
Qwen Image
Qwen · Alibaba
1,060
16
HiDream-I1-Fast
HiDream
1,059
17
GLM-Image
Z AI
1,050
18
FLUX.1 Krea [dev]
Black Forest Labs
1,034
19
FLUX.1 [dev]
Black Forest Labs
1,028
20
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
Stability.ai
1,025

Leaderboard data is cached from Artificial Analysis Arena and refreshed every 12 hours. Scores shown are for reference; see the source for full methodology.