Image Editing Arena opens with a $20-to-$211 price-quality frontier
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-09-03
Artificial Analysis has opened voting on its Image Editing Arena and published the full methodology, covering how prompts are authored, refreshed, and retired, and how Elo scores are calculated. The price-to-quality frontier ranges from MAI-Image-2.5-Flash at $20 per 1,000 images to GPT Image 2 (high) at $211, with Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro ($40), MAI-Image-2.5 ($48.1), and Nano Banana 2 ($67) in between. MAI-Image-2.6-Preview sits above the frontier, with pricing not yet announced.
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