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Image generation · Oct 14, 2026
Who is SOTA in Image generation?
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst
Text-to-image preference from LMArena. As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst holds Image generation. GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst is SOTA in Image generation since 2026-09-24. No eligible model…
Standings · overall
The board
| # | Model | State | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OGPT Image 2.5 Sunburst OpenAI | SOTA | medium |
| 2 | OGPT Image 2.5 Flare OpenAI | Near-SOTA | medium |
| 3 | OGPT Image 2 OpenAI | Near-SOTA | medium |
| 4 | MSMai Image 2.5 Microsoft | Not SOTA · #4 | medium |
| 5 | IDIdeogram 4.0 Quality ideogram | Not SOTA · #5 | medium |
| 6 | NCosmos3 Super Text2image NVIDIA | Not SOTA · #6 | medium |
| 7 | QQwen Image 2512 Alibaba / Qwen | Not SOTA · #7 | medium |
| 8 | HIHidream O1 Image hidream | Not SOTA · #8 | medium |
| 9 | OGPT Image 1 OpenAI | Was SOTA | medium |
| 10 | QZ Image Turbo Alibaba / Qwen | Not SOTA · #10 | medium |
| 11 | QQwen Image Prompt Extend Alibaba / Qwen | Not SOTA · #11 | medium |
| 12 | QQwen Image Alibaba / Qwen | Not SOTA · #12 | medium |
| 13 | BFFlux 2 Klein 4B bfl | Not SOTA · #13 | medium |
| 14 | ZGLM Image Zhipu AI | Not SOTA · #14 | medium |
| 15 | BFFlux 1 Dev Fp8 bfl | Was SOTA | medium |
Evidence recipe
What can move this crown
- LMArena Text-to-Image — primary, weight 1