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

- Company: Microsoft AI (microsoft.ai)
- Announced: 2026-06-02
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-image-2-5
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8423-mai-image-2-5-launches-at-no-2-for-image-editing-on-arena
- Subject: MAI
- Models affected: MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Image-2.5-Flash
- Pricing: $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $47 per 1M image output tokens

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.

## 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. 1

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