Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview Ranks #2 on AA-Image-Editing v2.1
The Elo deltas show Microsoft is closing the editing gap with OpenAI faster than most leaderboard churn suggests, particularly on text-in-image edits and compositional control. Builders evaluating image editing APIs can test MAI-Image-2.7-Preview directly in MAI Playground today, though text-to-image users still need to wait. Its strength in Live-Action Film and Consumer edits makes it a practical alternative to GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max) for production pipelines.
Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.7-Preview, an image editing model that takes the #2 spot on Artificial Analysis' AA-Image-Editing v2.1 leaderboard, just behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max). The model outscores its predecessor MAI-Image-2.6, released in August, on all 7 editing actions measured, ranking #1 on 4 of them including Scene & Style Edit and Reasoning-Based Edit. The largest gains over 2.6 come in Composition & Framing (+57 Elo), Text or Symbol Edits (+49) and Scene & Style Edit (+48). It is available today in MAI Playground for image editing only, with text-to-image support stated to be coming soon.
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.7-Preview takes #2 on AA-Image-Editing v2.1, close behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst (max) and a clear step up from MAI-Image-2.6
MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is Microsoft AI's newest image editing model, succeeding MAI-Image-2.6, released in August.
In our testing, MAI-Image-2.7-Preview scores higher than MAI-Image-2.6 on all 7 editing actions we measure, and ranks #1 on 4 of them: Scene & Style Edit, Text or Symbol Edits, Reasoning-Based Edit, and Enhancement & Restoration. This new model improves on MAI-Image-2.6 with the biggest gains in Composition & Framing (+57 Elo), Text or Symbol Edits (+49) and Scene & Style Edit (+48). We see its best use cases to be in Live-Action Film, Consumer and Frontier edits, where it ranks #1.
MAI-Image-2.7-Preview is available today in MAI Playground for image editing only, with text to image stated to be coming soon.
Congratulations to @MicrosoftAI on the release!
See below for our detailed analysis and example outputs of MAI-Image-2.7-Preview in the Artificial Analysis Image Arena 🧵
