LMArena Text-to-Image Leaderboard (September 2026)
In September 2026, GPT Image 2 ranks first with 1,382, followed by mai-image-2.6-preview (1,331) and grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low) (1,316). Top 20 of 68 candidates.
Data as of September 2026
#ModelProviderScoreVotes
1GGPT Image 2OpenAI1,38275.0K
2Mmai-image-2.6-previewMicrosoft AI1,3316.4K
3Ggrok-imagine-image-2.0 (low)SpaceXAI1,3162.7K
4Rreve-2.1Reve1,3027.6K
5MMuse ImageMeta AI1,28122.7K
6Rreve-2.0Reve1,27014.6K
7Ggemini-3.1-flash-image (nano-banana-2) [web-search]Google1,26336.4K
8Sseedream-5.0-proBytedance1,25848.2K
9Qqwen-image-3.0-proAlibaba1,25510.9K
10MMAI-Image-2.5Microsoft1,25456.7K
11Ggemini-3.1-flash-lite-image (nano-banana-2-lite)Google1,25116.4K
12Ggemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro)Google1,245146.8K
13Ggpt-image-1.5-high-fidelityOpenAI1,239148.1K
14GGemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro)Google1,23282.7K
15Ggrok-imagine-image-qualityxAI1,22939.5K
16Iideogram-4.0-qualityIdeogram1,20436.6K
17Qqwen-image-2.0-pro-2026-06-22Alibaba1,19112.0K
18Uuni-1.1-maxLuma AI1,18813.5K
19MMAI-Image-1Microsoft1,18349.2K
20Uuni-1.1Luma AI1,18332.2K
How this chart is built
From a public blind human-preference arena leaderboard; score and vote count are that leaderboard’s current snapshot. Also replaced wholesale each release, with no history.
Positions are renumbered from high to low by this table's own metric, independent of any ranking the source publishes. Figures are the current real data with no manual adjustment; values we cannot obtain show as “—” and are never filled in with estimates.