GPT-Image-2 had a 93% win rate in Image Arena.
Arena rankings come from blind, pairwise battles where voters pick between two anonymized image outputs for the same prompt.
GPT-Image-2 from @OpenAI was preferred 93% of the time, resulting in a record-breaking +242 point leap ahead of the competition on Arena's Text-to-Image leaderboard.
Exciting news - GPT-Image-2 by @OpenAI has claimed the #1 spot across all Image Arena leaderboards!
A clean sweep with a record-breaking +242 point lead in Text-to-Image - the largest gap we’ve seen to date.
- #1 Text-to-Image (1512), +242 over #2 (Nano-banana-2 with web-search aka gemini-3.1-flash-image)
- #1 Single-Image Edit (1513), +125 over #2 (Nano-banana-pro aka gemini-3-pro-image)
- #1 Multi-Image Edit (1464), +90 over #2 (Nano-banana-2)
No model has dominated Image Arena with margins this wide.
Huge congratulations to @OpenAI on this major breakthrough in image generation! More performance breakdowns by category in the thread below.
I wonder if gpt 5.5 is gonna be that much better than all the frontier models when they finally release it
Apr 22, 2026 · 7:23 PM UTC