Artificial Analysis: GPT Image 2.6 Takes the Top Two Spots on Its Image Generation and Editing Leaderboards
OpenAI's GPT Image 2.6 takes #1 and #2 on both AA-Image-T2I v2.1 and AA-Image-Editing v2.1. GPT Image 2.6 Flare is almost twice as fast as GPT Image 2.5 Flare with slightly better quality, and GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst takes the top spot with longer generation times OpenAI released
Context
An independent benchmark now ranks OpenAI's new image models first and second for both generating and editing images, two days after the release.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.6 on Nov 4 with two API models, GPT Image 2.6 Flare and Sunburst. Artificial Analysis says the two take first and second place on both its AA-Image-T2I v2.1 and AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboards. It says Flare is almost twice as fast as GPT Image 2.5 Flare with slightly better quality, while Sunburst takes the top spot with longer generation times.
What to expect next
Watch whether Google, Midjourney and other image model makers answer with new releases, and whether user votes on other arenas match these results.