Microsoft’s latest model, MAI-Image-2.5, ranks second on Arena’s image-edit leaderboard and delivers high-fidelity text-to-image generation with precise, localized edits. It preserves facial identity, understands scene context, and comes in a full-fidelity version plus a faster, cost-effective Flash variant. Both are available in Foundry and power new features in PowerPoint and OneDrive.

• MAI-Image-2.5 ranks No. 2 on Arena's Image Edit leaderboard, beating Nano Banana 2.1, and No. 3 for text-to-image
• Two versions available: full-fidelity MAI-Image-2.5 and a cheaper, faster MAI-Image-2.5-Flash, both already built into PowerPoint and OneDrive
• Outperforms GPT-Image-1.5 and Nano Banana Pro 2K on prompt adherence, visual quality, and controlled editing while preserving facial identity across pose/expression changes
• Foundry pricing runs $5/$8/$47 per million text/image-input/image-output tokens for the full model, dropping to $1.75/$1.75/$19.50 for Flash