GPT Image 1.5 (high) currently leads the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena with an Elo score of 1264.

The top image editing models by Elo rating are: 1. GPT Image 1.5 (high) (Elo 1264), 2. GPT Image 2 (high) (Elo 1253), 3. Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) (Elo 1240), 4. Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview) (Elo 1236), 5. grok-imagine-image-quality (Elo 1230). Rankings are based on blind user votes in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena.

Text to Image generation creates entirely new images from text descriptions, while image editing modifies existing images based on instructions. Image editing models take both an input image and editing instructions, then produce a modified version of the original image.

Models are ranked using an Elo rating system derived from user votes in blind comparisons. Users compare edited outputs from the same input image and editing instruction, choosing the result they prefer. Higher Elo scores indicate a model is preferred more often. Vote in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena

HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct (Fal) currently leads among open weights models in the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Arena with an Elo score of 1224, followed by HiDream-O1-Image (Elo 1213) and FLUX.2 [klein] 9B (Elo 1161).