Design Arena

World's first benchmark for real-world design with 4M+ creators and counting. Made by @arcada_labs

[Design Arena @Designarena]

@a16z Huge congrats to the @ideogram_ai team!

[a16z @a16z]

Ideogram 4.0 is incredible.

And it's open. Download the weights below.

[Design Arena @Designarena]

BREAKING: Ideogram 4.0 is the #1 open-weight model on Image Arena with an Elo of 1285 and average generation time of 68.7 seconds.

In open weights, this model holds a 115 Elo point gap above second place, ahead of HunyuanImage-3.0 by @TencentHunyuan and FLUX.2 [dev] by @bfl_ai. This is a 152 Elo point increase from @ideogram_ai's previous model, Ideogram 3.0, placing it in the same performance band as Gemini 3.0 Pro Image Gen 2k and Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Gen by @GoogleDeepmind.

Ideogram’s performance establishes it as the leading independent foundation image generation lab, and top 3 lab overall behind @OpenAI and @GoogleDeepmind.

Huge congratulations to the @ideogram_ai team on the launch!

[Ideogram @ideogram_ai]

Introducing Ideogram 4.0: the best open image model in the world.

Think it. Make it. Own it.

Download the weights, fine-tune on your own data, and run it on your hardware. Live on every Ideogram plan and the API today.

[Design Arena @Designarena]

MAI-Image-2.5 by @MicrosoftAI is now available on Design Arena!

One of seven new additions to the MAI family, MAI-Image-2.5 features improvements across facial consistency, visual reasoning, and text-to-image quality.

Congratulations to the @MicrosoftAI team on the launch!

[Microsoft AI @MicrosoftAI]

Introducing Image-2.5

[Design Arena @Designarena]

Try it now, live at https://t.co/UJtXf64TjN

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Gemini 3.5 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind improves an average of 8 ranks across all code categories from Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Gemini 3.5 Flash advances 15 ranks in Mobile Arena, ranking 4th with an Elo of 1257, behind Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 by @AnthropicAI.

Gemini 3.5 Flash puts @GoogleDeepMind among the top two labs in Full Stack, Mobile, SVG, and Web App, demonstrating its cross-disciplinary strength.

Congrats to the @GoogleDeepMind team for this achievement!

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Try it now, at https://t.co/bqMbSX8tjH

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BREAKING: MiniMax M3 by @MiniMax_AI is #4 overall out of open weights models on Design Arena with an Elo of 1319.

MiniMax M3 is a 35 Elo point improvement from MiniMax M2.7, putting it in the same performance band as GLM 5.1 by @Zai_org, Kimi K.26 by @Kimi_Moonshot, and MiMo-V2.5 Pro by @XiaomiMiMo.

Huge congrats to the @MiniMax_AI team on the launch!

[Design Arena @Designarena]

MiniMax M3 has an average generation time of 292.1 seconds, and it performs best at blog and dashboard websites.

Compared to MiniMax M2.7, MiniMax M3 improves the most in the 3D Design, Blog Website, and Portfolio Website categories.

[Design Arena @Designarena]

Try it now, on https://t.co/UJtXf64TjN

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Claude Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.7 (Thinking) by @AnthropicAI are dominating the Slides category on Design Arena.

With an 80+ Elo point gap between Anthropic models and other models, Anthropic sets the standard for slide generation. Claude Opus 4.7 and 4.7 (Thinking) are followed by GLM 5.1 by @Zai_org, Gemini 3.5 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind, and Kimi K2.6 by @Kimi_Moonshot.

Congrats to the @claudeai team for the achievement!

[Design Arena @Designarena]

Try it out now, live at https://t.co/UJtXf64TjN

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Announcing Agentic Game Development on Design Arena - our newest multi-file, multi-turn evaluation.

A sneak peek of what we've given our agents access to:

- Asset Catalog: curated ready-to-use assets, including fonts and sound effects
- Built-in Libraries: ~10 preloaded libraries, including Howler and Tween.js
- Expanded Tool Calls: new tool calls for sprite generation and asset discovery

[Design Arena @Designarena]

With our Agentic Game Dev model, agents have built games with:

- Smooth, real-time animations
- Complex gameplay systems and logic
- Support for 2D/3D environments

Check out some the games made with Agentic Game Dev 👇

[Design Arena @Designarena]

Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Preview is now available on Design Arena!

@xai's most advanced image-to-video model, delivering
improvements to audio, video quality, and realism.

Big congrats to the @xai team on the launch!

[Design Arena @Designarena]

MiniMax M3 is now available on Design Arena!

The first open-weight model to support coding, agentic, and multimodal tasks, with a 1M context window and autonomous task decomposition.

Congratulations to the @MiniMax_AI team on the launch!

[MiniMax (official) @MiniMax_AI]

Introducing MiniMax M3: The First Open-Weights Model to Combine Three Frontier Capabilities

- Coding & Agentic Frontier: 59.0% SWE-Bench Pro, 66.0% Terminal Bench 2.1, 34.8% SWE-fficiency, 28.8% KernelBench Hard, 74.2% MCP Atlas
- MiniMax Sparse Attention scales context to 1M
- Natively Multimodal from Step Zero

API: https://t.co/fHRdSV7BwZ
Token Plan: https://t.co/BDCycxepZw
🚀New! MiniMax Code: https://t.co/GvB4YiB6Ul

Weights & Tech Report in ~10 Days

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Try it now, live at https://t.co/ARyy3NChZN

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BREAKING: Krea 2 Medium is 10th on Image Arena with an Elo of 1243.

With their first foundational image model, @krea_ai is already among the top six image generation labs, following closely behind @bfl_ai and @recraftai.

This places it in the same performance band as FLUX.2 [flex] by @bfl_ai and Recraft V4.1 Utility Pro by @recraftai.

Huge congrats to the @krea_ai team on the launch!

[Design Arena @Designarena]

Krea 2 Medium is strongest at cartoon, portrait, and logo generation. In Logo Arena, it is ranked 9th with an Elo of 1251.

This establishes a new Pareto frontier for logos in Preference vs Price, with an average image cost of $0.030.

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Recraft V4.1 Vector Pro is a 3 position and 18 Elo increase from Recraft's previous model, Recraft V4 Vector Pro.

The team's SVG model establishes a new Pareto frontier for Preference vs. Speed with an average generation time of 26.8 seconds.

[Design Arena @Designarena]

BREAKING: Recraft V4.1 Vector Pro by @recraftai is #13 on SVG Arena!

This is in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.7 (Thinking) by @AnthropicAI and Qwen 3.7 Max by @Alibaba_Qwen.

Congratulations to the @recraftai team on the launch!