# Microsoft AI — MAI-Image-2.5 launches at No. 2 for image editing on Arena | Microsoft AI

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-06-02
- Category: model-update
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2-5/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10786-mai-image-2-5-launches-at-no-2-for-image-editing-on-arena-microsoft-ai
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Image-2.5-Flash
- Pricing: MAI-Image-2.5: $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, $47 per 1M image output tokens. MAI-Image-2.5-Flash: $1.75 per 1M text input tokens, $1.75 per 1M image input tokens, $19.50 per 1M image output tokens.

Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.5 and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash, image generation and editing models that rank No. 2 on Arena's image-editing leaderboard. MAI-Image-2.5 offers improved text-to-image quality, complex visual reasoning, fine-grained edit control, and face identity consistency. The models are available to developers in Foundry and are rolling out to PowerPoint and OneDrive.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2-5/:

> MAI-Image-2.5 is our strongest image model yet – and now ranks No. 2 on Arena's Image Edit leaderboard, ahead of Nano Banana 2. Built for high-quality generation and precise, controllable editing, it brings production-ready image workflows to developers and Microsoft products.

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