Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Climbs 14 Spots to #4 on Text-to-Image Leaderboard, Best Non-OpenAI Model

ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-19

Artificial Analysis' latest leaderboard places xAI's Grok Imagine Image 2.0 at #4 on text-to-image, the highest-ranked model outside OpenAI and a 14-place climb over the previous generation, landing on the quality-vs-price Pareto frontier.

Released in August, the model supports text-to-image, image editing, and multi-reference generation with up to five input images. It jumped from #18 to #4 in text-to-image and #16 to #10 in image editing, with the largest gains in Knowledge, Text Rendering, and Lighting. It's available via the xAI API as grok-imagine-image-2.0 and in Grok Imagine.

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