MAI-Image-2.6-Flash joins MAI-Image-2.6 on the Pareto frontier for quality vs price in Image Editing, with MAI-Image-2.6 on the frontier for both Text to Image and Image Editing

MAI-Image-2.6-Flash is priced at $19.5 per 1k output images on Microsoft Foundry, in line with MAI-Image-2.5-Flash at $20 per 1k images. In Image Editing that places it on the Pareto frontier between Meta's Muse Image ($10 per 1k images) and MAI-Image-2.6, and in the most attractive quadrant of our Quality vs Price comparison. In Text to Image it sits just below the frontier, behind Muse Image.

MAI-Image-2.6 itself, which we benchmarked as MAI-Image-2.6-Preview when Microsoft announced it in August, now has a public price of $38.9 per 1k output images. At that price it sits at the top of the Image Editing frontier as the #1 model on the board, and on the Text to Image frontier second only to OpenAI's GPT Image 2 (high), which costs more than 5x as much per image.