Design Arena (Image) — leaderboard
Crowdsourced arena for AI image generation. Models generate images from prompts and are ranked by Elo from human votes.
Metric: Elo. Source: www.designarena.ai. 68 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | riverflow-2.5-pro | 1406 |
| 2 | gpt-image-2 | 1388 |
| 3 | carillon_2 | 1343 |
| 4 | babylon | 1331 |
| 5 | seedream-5.0-pro | 1312 |
| 6 | chestnut | 1309 |
| 7 | gemini-3.1-flash-image-gen-2k | 1299 |
| 8 | gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview | 1291 |
| 9 | gemini-3-pro-image-gen-2k | 1266 |
| 10 | mantis | 1262 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=design-arena-image · How the rankings work · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-07-22.