Mai Image 2.6 — Rank #4 in Image
Mai Image 2.6 is a image generation model from microsoft-ai. It currently sits at #4 in the Image ranking with an arena ELO score of 1,335, compared with 1,424 for GPT-Image 2.5 Sunburst. Microsoft-ai · #4 in the text-to-image arena · 18,625 community votes
- Company
- microsoft-ai
- Category
- Image Generation Models
- Arena ELO
- 1,335
- Community votes
- 18,625
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Arena
- text-to-image · 24 Sep 2026
Ranked #4 of every model LMArena has rated in the text-to-image arena.· Position 4 of 10 in Image· Source: LMArena, published 24 September 2026
What Mai Image 2.6 is used for
Image models are usually picked on control rather than beauty. Practical jobs are generating a hero image from a description, editing an existing picture without regenerating it, keeping a character or product consistent across a set of images, and getting legible text inside the image. Check the licence attached to the output as well — several models restrict commercial use or require attribution.
How Mai Image 2.6 compares
The closest models in the same category, by arena ELO score.
| Model | Company | ELO | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-Image 2.5 Sunburst | openai | 1,424 | Openai · #1 in the text-to-image arena · 10,884 community votes |
| GPT-Image 2.5 Flare | openai | 1,401 | Openai · #2 in the text-to-image arena · 10,058 community votes |
| GPT-Image 2 | openai | 1,383 | Openai · #3 in the text-to-image arena · 88,744 community votes |
| Reve 2.1 | reve | 1,302 | Reve · #5 in the text-to-image arena · 8,305 community votes |
| Grok Imagine Image 2.0 | xai | 1,301 | Xai · #6 in the text-to-image arena · 7,257 community votes |