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Image Generation race

Photoreal, illustration, cartoon, text rendering and editing.

Leader
Image 2.5 Sunburst
Margin
16.9 pts
20.3% ahead
Weeks at #1
7
in a row
Changes
3
in 2026

Warming up the track…

Oct 20, 2026Image 2.5 Sunburst leads
2025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26

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Score history

Top 6 today over the leader's frontier · click to jump to a week

#1 frontierImage 2.5 SunburstMAI-Image-2.6Imagine 2.0Nano Banana 2.1Reve 2.1Muse Image
65.070.075.080.085.090.095.0100.02025Apr ’25Jul ’25Oct ’252026Apr ’26Jul ’26Oct ’26

Reigns at #1

Longest: GPT Image 2, 20 weeks (from Apr 2026).

Inside this race

What makes up image generation

Why this race matters

Image models are judged by people, so blind votes are the standard.

How it is scored

Weighted average of the model's percentile in each child race. A model needs results covering at least half of the weight to be ranked.

Unit: indexHigher is betterPhoto finish under 0.6 ptsDominant over 3.5 pts

Data provenance

  • AIModelRace composite

    Each child race is converted to a percentile within its field before weighting.

Composite race: each model's within-field percentile in every child race, weighted as shown. A model needs results covering at least half of the weight to be placed. How composites work