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Microsoft AI· 2 Jun

MAI-Image-2.5 launches at No. 2 for image editing on Arena

New model

Microsoft AI launched MAI-Image-2.5, an image generation and editing model, alongside MAI-Image-2.5-Flash, a faster variant.

The models are available to developers in Foundry and power Microsoft products such as PowerPoint and OneDrive.
MAI-Image-2.5 ranks No. 2 on Arena's Image Edit leaderboard.

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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. 1
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Announced: 02 Jun 2026
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05 Sep 2026 00:41 UTC (≥94d after)

Pricing

$5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $47 per 1M image output tokens

ModelsMAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Image-2.5-Flash

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