Arena.ai Reports MAI-Image-2.6 Out of Preview

Arena.ai posted that Microsoft AI's MAI-Image-2.6 has exited preview and is now available on Foundry. The account states the model is tied for second place in the Image Edit Arena with 1439 points. Arena.ai also reports the price at $38.90 per 1K output images and an observed average cost of roughly $0.048 per generated image, which places the model on the Pareto frontier for that arena. The post includes a scatterplot chart of the frontier.