More exciting news from @MicrosoftAI: MAI-Image-2.6 is #2 in Text-to-Image Arena with 1,331 pts, and joins the Pareto frontier!
At $38.90 per 1K output images (~$0.039/image), it outperforms Grok Imagine Image 2.0 while also costing less.
MAI-Image-2.6 ranks #2 in:
- Product, Branding & Commercial Design
- 3D Imaging & Modeling
- Cartoon, Anime & Fantasy
- Art
- Text Rendering
It also ranks #3 in Portraits and Photorealistic & Cinematic Imagery.
Try it in Direct Mode, or vote in Battle Mode to help shape the live leaderboard.
MAI-Image-2.6 by @MicrosoftAI has landed in the Text-to-Image Arena at #2 (1336 pts)!
This release is just 45 pts behind GPT Image 2 (Medium) at #1, and ahead of #3 Grok Imagine Image 2.0 (Low) by 20 pts.
MAI-Image-2.6 is a significant improvement from MAI-Image-2.5 overall at #10 with (1256 pts), and across all categories. MAI will also be making it available on Playground with early API access on Foundry next week. See post below for more details.
Congrats to the @MicrosoftAI team on this release!
Sep 4, 2026 · 6:01 PM UTC
