MAI-Image-2.5 is a text-to-image and image editing model that handles localized edits, identity preservation, and text rendering. Available via Foundry and OpenRouter for developers building production image workflows.

MAI-Image-2.5 is Microsoft AI's new image generation and editing model, now ranked No. 2 on Arena's image-edit leaderboard and No. 3 for text-to-image as of June 1, 2026.

Most image models treat editing as regeneration swap one thing, risk breaking everything else. MAI-Image-2.5 approaches it differently: localized edits that understand scene context, so changing a background, replacing text, or adding an object doesn't degrade what you didn't touch.

🖼 Text-to-image generation with stronger prompt adherence and text rendering so your prompts produce what you actually described, not an interpretation of it

✂️ Localized edits across objects, backgrounds, and text without affecting the surrounding image

🧑 Face and identity consistency preserved across pose, expression, and viewpoint changes useful for product, portrait, and commercial workflows

⚡ MAI-Image-2.5-Flash for high-throughput, cost-sensitive pipelines at roughly half the output token cost

Built for developers and ML teams embedding image generation or editing into production apps where controllability, identity handling, and cost-performance tradeoffs all matter.

Try it in the MAI Playground or access it via Azure Foundry and OpenRouter today.

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Looks impressive, congrats on the launch! I have a question: can I feed it a reference image and have it reproduce or closely match that image, rather than just editing parts of an existing one? Trying to understand whether the identity preservation works from a supplied reference, or only within an image I'm already editing.