MiniMax H3-Image has picked up two open-weight No. 1 spots on Artificial Analysis’ image leaderboards. In its November 13, 2026 announcement, the evaluator placed H3-Image first among open-weight models on both AA-Image-Editing v2.1 and AA-Image-T2I v2.1, its image-editing and text-to-image rankings. Source
Artificial Analysis puts H3-Image at No. 13 overall in image editing and No. 25 overall in text-to-image. That’s two category wins, not an overall leaderboard takeover. Source
Artificial Analysis also lists H3-Image Highspeed, which it describes as a faster version available only through MiniMax’s API. That variant ranks No. 14 overall in editing and No. 24 in text-to-image. Its post identifies H3-Image as the open-weight leader; it does not extend that label to Highspeed. Source
Arena’s multi-image editing lead
Arena’s own November 13 announcement gives H3-Image another category lead: No. 1 among open models in Multi-Image Edit Arena, with a score of 1365. Arena places it No. 11 overall, tied with Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro, and says it is the only open model in that category’s top 20. Source
Arena also reports two other results:
- Single-Image Edit: No. 2 among open models, scoring 1359 and tied with Qwen-Image-2.1. Source
- Text-to-Image: No. 3 among open models, scoring 1197 and tied with Ideogram 4.0. Source
Artificial Analysis’ open-weight text-to-image lead and Arena’s third-place open-model result come from separate rankings, not one giant scoreboard. SourceSource
Neither announcement includes vote counts, uncertainty intervals or license terms. These November 13 rankings don’t establish how decisive the leads are or what usage rights come with the weights. SourceSource
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