HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
TencentOpentencent-hunyuan-community
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct is an AI image model from Tencent. It is not on LMArena’s Text-to-image leaderboard yet. On LMArena’s Image editing leaderboard it ranks 29 of 60 with 1302±3 from 331,438 votes. License: tencent-hunyuan-community.
Key figures
- Developer
- Tencent
- License
- tencent-hunyuan-community
- Released (per AA)
- Jan 2026
Not yet available: LMArena · Text-to-image
Who it is for (from the data)
- Solid quality with room to choose: #29 of 60 on Image editing, in the top half.
- Mainly image editing: no text-to-image results yet.
- Self-hosting or on-premise use: LMArena lists its license as tencent-hunyuan-community.
Neighbours on Image editing
| # | Model | Score | Votes | AA Elo | License | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 |  Seedream 4.5 ByteDance | 1303 | 1,342,849 | 1043 | Proprietary | +1 |
| 27 |  Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Alibaba | 1302 | 56,713 | 1058 | Proprietary | +0 |
| 28 | Wan 2.7 Image Pro Alibaba | 1302 | 43,966 | – | Proprietary | +0 |
| 29 | HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct Tencent | 1302 | 331,438 | 1063 | tencent-hunyuan-community | |
| 30 | Wan 2.7 Image Alibaba | 1301 | 44,788 | – | Proprietary | -1 |
| 31 | Seedream 5.0 Lite ByteDance | 1295 | 485,179 | 1062 | Proprietary | -7 |
| 32 |  Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (nano-banana) Google | 1291 | 11,430,191 | – | Proprietary | -11 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | AA Elo | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba | 1362 | 36,713 | 1081 | qwen-research |
| 38 | Qwen-Image-Edit Alibaba | 1241 | 2,021,780 | – | Apache 2.0 |
| 40 | Qwen-Image-Edit (2511) Alibaba | 1233 | 485,092 | – | Apache 2.0 |
| 43 |  FLUX.2 [klein] 9B Black Forest Labs | 1224 | 540,679 | 1015 | flux-non-commercial-license |
| 44 | FLUX.2 [dev] Black Forest Labs | 1224 | 254,229 | – | flux-non-commercial-license |
How to read the scores
- LMArena score: people blind-pick the better of two anonymous images for the same prompt, and the votes are fitted into an Elo-style rating; "±" is the 95% confidence interval.
- Text-to-image and image edit are separate boards, so scores are not comparable across them; AA Elo comes from Artificial Analysis on a different scale.
- If the gap between two models is smaller than their combined intervals, the order is not statistically reliable; treat them as the same tier. More votes mean narrower intervals.
FAQ
Where does HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct rank among AI image models?
Image editing rank 29 (1302) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
Is HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct open-weight?
LMArena lists its license as tencent-hunyuan-community (not proprietary); check the license text for commercial-use terms.
Who makes HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct?
According to LMArena, HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct is made by Tencent.
How reliable is HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct's score?
The scores are based on 331,438 votes on Image editing (95% CI ±3). More votes and narrower intervals mean a more stable rank.
How far is HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct from #1 on Image editing?
#1 on Image editing is GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst (1514); HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct scores 1302, 212 points behind.
Sources
LMArena Text-to-image data published on Oct 7, 2026.
LMArena Image editing data published on Oct 20, 2026.
17NAS syncs the upstream leaderboards daily; this page's data was synced on Oct 26, 2026.
Price, resolution and speed have no reliable public data yet and are omitted; all values come from the snapshot, blanks show –.