Microsoft · image model · Released Oct 13, 2026MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.6 is an image model from Microsoft, released Oct 13, 2026. It handles text to image and image editing.
- Arena score
- 1,427#6 of 61 · image editing
- Starting price
- —Not published
- Largest size
- —Not published
- References
- Yesinput images for editing
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to image arena
- 1,329 ±5#4 of 82 · 34,596 votes
- Image editing arena
- 1,427 ±5#6 of 61 · 76,933 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026.
The details
- Lab
- Microsoft
- Type
- Image model
- Released
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inputs
- Text prompts, Reference images
- Output
- Images
- Can do
- Text to image, Image editing
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 1 API host
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About MAI-Image-2.6
How good is MAI-Image-2.6?
In blind side-by-side votes, MAI-Image-2.6 scores 1,329 for text to image (#4 of 82) and 1,427 for image editing (#6 of 61). Higher is better; scores within about 10 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes MAI-Image-2.6?
MAI-Image-2.6 is an image model from Microsoft, released Oct 13, 2026.
What can MAI-Image-2.6 do?
MAI-Image-2.6 accepts text prompts and reference images and produces images. In practice: text to image and image editing.
Is MAI-Image-2.6 open source?
No. MAI-Image-2.6 is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner apps.
Where can I use MAI-Image-2.6?
It is listed by 1 API host we track.
What are the alternatives to MAI-Image-2.6?
The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Nano Banana 2.1 (Google, Oct 6, 2026), FLUX 3 Image (Black Forest Labs, Oct 5, 2026), Arrow 2 (QuiverAI, Sep 16, 2026) and Qwen-Image 2.1 (Alibaba (Qwen), Sep 14, 2026).