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MAI-Image-2.7

MAI-Image-2.7 is Microsoft's latest image-generation model in our dataset (public preview), released Oct 27, 2026. Microsoft AI's image editing model, released in preview Oct 27, 2026: restyle, relight, edit text in, or restore an existing image from a text instruction. Verified against vendor sources on Nov 1, 2026.

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Primary source: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-image-2-7-debut/. We are the fast, independent index; the vendor’s own page is the source of record for these model facts.

MAI-Image-2.7 at a glance: takes image, text in; returns image.

ReleasedOct 27, 2026

InImageTextOutImage

Key facts

Vendor-reported facts are read from the linked vendor page on the date shown above; we did not run the model. Independently tested means we ran it; no fact on this page is. Editorial is our own classification, not a vendor claim. Where a linked page does not itself state a value, the row says so. How to read provenance.

MAI-Image-2.7: key facts with sources
Fact	Value	Label	Source
Vendor	Microsoft	Editorial	n/a
Released	Oct 27, 2026 Preview launch date on Microsoft AI's announcement.	Vendor-reported	source
Status	public preview	Editorial	n/a
Input	image, text	Vendor-reported	source
Output	image	Vendor-reported	source

Where MAI-Image-2.7 sits in our data

Released Oct 27, 2026 (week 44 of 2026), in October 2026. Other models in our data released that month: Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview, Pika H3 Flex, Gemini 4 Carbon.
Microsoft tools we cover: Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Automate, Semantic Kernel, Playwright MCP, AutoGen.
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Alternatives to MAI-Image-2.7

Image models from other vendors that share at least one of our groups with MAI-Image-2.7. Comparable on paper, from each model’s sourced facts; we have not run them.

Nano Banana 2.1Google · Both in: Image · 1K image $0.0336; 2K image $0.0504; 4K image $0.113 (per image) · released Oct 6, 2026

What the sources say

These are claims from the linked pages, not our measurements.

Vendor claim (Microsoft): launches in preview at No. 3 on Arena Edit and No. 2 on Artificial Analysis's image editing leaderboard. We did not verify this.
Microsoft says it improves on MAI-Image-2.6 across all 10 use cases and 7 editing actions Artificial Analysis evaluates, with its largest lead (24 Elo) in scene and style.

What we tested

Nothing yet. We have not run MAI-Image-2.7 ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.

Not verified, left out

We could not confirm these on a vendor page, so we do not state them.

Pricing and API access: Microsoft has not published either for MAI-Image-2.7; the post lists MAI Playground, Arena and Artificial Analysis only.
Text-to-image generation: not part of this preview release.
We have not used the model.

MAI-Image-2.7 FAQ

When was MAI-Image-2.7 released?

Microsoft released MAI-Image-2.7 on Oct 27, 2026; it is listed as public preview. Source.

Has Agentic Weekly tested MAI-Image-2.7?

Not yet. Every fact on this page is Reported: read from the linked vendor pages, not measured by us.

Sources

Microsoft AI announcement: MAI Image 2.7

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