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Image generation · Oct 14, 2026
Who is SOTA in Image generation?
Ideogram 4.0 Quality
Text-to-image preference from LMArena. As of Oct 14, 2026, Ideogram 4.0 Quality holds Image generation. Ideogram 4.0 Quality is SOTA in Image generation since 2026-06-05. No eligible model is…
Standings · open-weights
The board
| # | Model | State | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IDIdeogram 4.0 Quality ideogram | SOTA | medium |
| 2 | NCosmos3 Super Text2image NVIDIA | Near-SOTA | medium |
| 3 | QQwen Image 2512 Alibaba / Qwen | Near-SOTA | medium |
| 4 | HIHidream O1 Image hidream | Not SOTA · #4 | medium |
| 5 | QZ Image Turbo Alibaba / Qwen | Not SOTA · #5 | medium |
| 6 | QQwen Image Prompt Extend Alibaba / Qwen | Was SOTA | medium |
| 7 | QQwen Image Alibaba / Qwen | Was SOTA | medium |
| 8 | BFFlux 2 Klein 4B bfl | Not SOTA · #8 | medium |
| 9 | ZGLM Image Zhipu AI | Not SOTA · #9 | medium |
| 10 | BFFlux 1 Dev Fp8 bfl | Was SOTA | medium |
| 11 | STStable Diffusion V35 Large Stability AI | Not SOTA · #11 | medium |
| 12 | BBagel ByteDance | Not SOTA · #12 | medium |
Evidence recipe
What can move this crown
- LMArena Text-to-Image — primary, weight 1