Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5-Pro debuts at #1 on the Artificial Analysis Image Editing Leaderboard, and takes the #7 spot in Text to Image

MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is Microsoft AI's quality-focused image model, launched July 23 in preview on Microsoft Foundry. It joins MAI-Image-2.5 and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash in a family Microsoft positions as covering the quality-speed-cost curve, so builders can pick the point that fits their job. Pro sits at the quality end: Microsoft describes it as its highest-fidelity image model to date, aimed at hero imagery, detailed editing, and precise in-image text rendering.

In the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, MAI-Image-2.5-Pro debuts at #1 on the Image Editing Leaderboard, surpassing Reve 2.1, GPT Image 2, and Microsoft's own MAI-Image-2.5. In Text to Image it lands at #7.

On Microsoft Foundry, MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is priced per token: $5 per 1M text input tokens, $8 per 1M image input tokens, and $106 per 1M image output tokens, which works out to roughly $108.5 per 1k 1024x1024 images. That compares to $48 per 1k images for MAI-Image-2.5 and $20 per 1k for MAI-Image-2.5-Flash.

MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is available in preview on Microsoft Foundry across seven global-standard regions, and can be tried out in the MAI Playground.

Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release!

See below for comparisons between MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and other leading models in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵