Mai Image 2.5 Text to Image leads on human preference — 1271 vs 1200 Elo (#3 of 149 in the Image Arena). The right pick still depends on style, speed and licensing — details below.
| Human-preference Elo | 1200 | 1271 |
| Arena rank | #13 of 149 | #3 of 149 |
| Category | text-to-image | text-to-image |
| License | commercial | commercial |
By human preference, Mai Image 2.5 Text to Image currently rates higher (1271 vs 1200 Elo). Preference votes measure typical output quality; test both on your own prompts for style fit.
Both are text to image models available as hosted API endpoints — Krea 2 Medium (krea/v2/medium/text-to-image) and Mai Image 2.5 Text to Image (microsoft/mai-image-2.5).
See the full best text-to-image models ranking.