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MAI-Image-2.5MAI-Image-2.5-ProNano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
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Image generation: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 35 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Z-Image Turbo, Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6-Flash, MAI-Image-2.6, GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. 1 models are not plotted: Qwen-Image-2.1.

1 model with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

Qwen-Image-2.1

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • MAI-Image-2.5
    Quality
    60.9
    Rank
    #10/38
    Price
    $0.048/img
    Speed
    28s

    vs MAI-Image-2.5-Pro: −1.0 quality · 0.44× price

  • MAI-Image-2.5-Pro
    Quality
    61.8
    Rank
    #8/38
    Price
    $0.11/img
    Speed
    —

    vs Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image): +0.1 quality · 1.6× price

  • Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
    Quality
    61.8
    Rank
    #9/38
    Price
    $0.067/img
    Speed
    8.9s

    vs MAI-Image-2.5-Pro: −0.1 quality · 0.62× price

Overview

Metric
MAI-Image-2.5
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Lab
Microsoft AI
Microsoft AI
Google DeepMind
Released
Jun 2, 2026
Jul 23, 2026
Feb 26, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Proprietary
Price per image
$0.048Best
$0.11
$0.067
Time per image
28s
—
8.9sBest

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
MAI-Image-2.5
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
Image generation
60.9±3.2
#10/38Verified
61.8±4.3Best
#8/38Verified
61.8±3.2
#9/38Verified

Image generation benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
MAI-Image-2.5
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro
Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)
AA Text-to-Image Arena
third-party
#9/351102Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #8GPT Image 1.51102
  3. #9MAI-Image-2.51102
  4. #10Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1101
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#12/351099Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #11MAI-Image-2.6-Flash1100
  3. #12MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1099
  4. #13Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)1092
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#6/351122BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1196
  2. #5MAI-Image-2.61147
  3. #6Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1122
  4. #7Muse Image1112
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Image Editing Arena
third-party
#7/291114BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #6Muse Image1117
  3. #7MAI-Image-2.51114
  4. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1109
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#10/291106Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #9Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1108
  3. #10MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1106
  4. #11Grok Imagine Image 2.01106
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
#9/291108Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1181
  2. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1109
  3. #9Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1108
  4. #10MAI-Image-2.5-Pro1106
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LMArena Text-to-Image
third-party
#9/301254Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1256
  3. #9MAI-Image-2.51254
  4. #9Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro1254
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#6/31~1277Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #5Grok Imagine Image 2.01302
  3. ~#6MAI-Image-2.5-ProEstimated1277
  4. #6Muse Image1276
estimated from related benchmarks
#7/301260BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1423
  2. #6Muse Image1276
  3. #7Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1260
  4. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1256
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
LMArena Image Edit
third-party
#7/241400BestVerified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #6Muse Image1402
  3. #7MAI-Image-2.51400
  4. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1394
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
~#9/25~1394Estimated
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #8Seedream 5.0 Pro1394
  3. ~#9MAI-Image-2.5-ProEstimated1394
  4. #9Grok Imagine Image (Quality)1390
estimated from related benchmarks
#11/241388Verified
  1. #1GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst1526
  2. #9Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image)1390
  3. #11Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)1388
  4. #12GPT Image 1.51370
arena.ai · 2026-09-21
GenEval
day 0
~#3/4~86.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.5Estimated86.6%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.3%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.5-ProEstimated86.3%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~86.9%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image90.0%
  2. #2Qwen-Image87.0%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Estimated86.9%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo82.0%
estimated from related benchmarks
DPG-Bench
day 0
~#3/4~87.5%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.5Estimated87.5%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.4%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3MAI-Image-2.5-ProEstimated87.4%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/4~87.6%Estimated
  1. #1HiDream-O1-Image89.8%
  2. #2Qwen-Image88.3%
  3. ~#3Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image)Estimated87.6%
  4. #3Z-Image Turbo84.9%
estimated from related benchmarks