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MAI-Image-2 vs Midjourney V8

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MAI-Image-2

Microsoft

Midjourney V8

Midjourney

Benchmark results

  • Arena Text to Image

    Arena rating · Higher is better

    • MAI-Image-2
      1183
      Arena #25CI 1178 to 1187
    • Midjourney V8
      Not reported
    Runs and sources
    MAI-Image-2
    • default118395% CI 1178 to 1187 · 50,455 votes
    Midjourney V8

    Not reported

Each model's best published result is shown; "Not reported" means no matched evaluation, not a score of zero. Arena and DeepSWE ranks are the leaderboards' own; other ranks are among catalogue models with a score. Results from different harnesses or settings are not directly comparable.

Arena ratings: Arena (lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset), licensed CC BY 4.0. Ratings come from pairwise human votes and are only comparable within one leaderboard; the interval is Arena's 95% confidence interval. Model names are matched to the Vertical Tabs catalog.

Model specifications

Release date
March 19, 2026
March 17, 2026
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Native context
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Max output tokens
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Knowledge cutoff
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Open weights
Closed
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API pricing · USD per 1M tokens

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Capabilities and modalities

Input modalities
text
text, image
Output modalities
image
image
Tool calling
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Reasoning option
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Architecture and availability

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Instruction format
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License
Proprietary
proprietary
Providers
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Provider endpoints
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Ollama variants
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0
Metadata source
ai-research
curated

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