Image Edit Arena: gpt-image-2 tops 29M-vote leaderboard, nano-banana-pro ranks 8th
arena · x · 2026-08-19
Arena's Image Edit (single image) leaderboard ranks 53 models based on 29 million community votes.
Top of the board:
- #1: OpenAI's gpt-image-2 (medium) at 1463 (±4) with 199K votes
- #2: grok-imagine-image-2.0 (low) at 1439 (preliminary)
- #3: Microsoft AI's mai-image-2.6-preview at 1420
- #4: Meta's muse-image at 1406
- #8: Google's gemini-3-pro-image-2k (nano-banana-pro) at 1390 with 517K votes
- #9: OpenAI's chatgpt-image-latest-high-fidelity at 1389
Elsewhere: ByteDance's seedream-5.0-pro sits 6th, Tencent's hunyuan-image-3.0-instruct 20th, and seedream-4.5 22nd despite the largest vote count (1M+). Score spreads overlap across much of the top 10.
Related event: Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 Ranks Near Top of Image Leaderboards(3 posts)→
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