{"type":"post","id":"best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f","slug":"best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f","title":"Best AI for Single-Image Editing: Image Edit Leaderboard","description":"LMArena’s Single Image Edit leaderboard, dated November 2, 2026, places Microsoft AI’s MAI-Image-2.7-Preview fourth among 63 models.","retrieval_nugget":"LMArena’s Single Image Edit leaderboard, dated November 2, 2026, places Microsoft AI’s MAI-Image-2.7-Preview fourth among 63 models. The ranking offers a large-scale preference signal for builders comparing image-editing options, but it measures Arena votes rather than performance on any team’s own tasks.","published_at":"2026-11-06","updated_at":"2026-11-06","record_date":"2026-11-06","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["models"],"entities":["LMArena","MAI-Image-2.7-Preview","GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst","GPT-Image-2.5 Flare","GPT-Image-2.6 Sunburst (Medium)","Microsoft AI"],"related_patterns":["agent-economics-moves-to-completed-work"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"LMArena’s image-edit leaderboard now ranks GPT-Image-2.5 Sunburst first (1517) and MAI-Image-2.7-Preview fourth (1469), a new Arena-specific ranking beyond the prior release and Artificial Analysis results.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/microsoft-s-mai-image-2-7-preview-ranks-ccadfd/"],"source_url":"https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/image-edit","source_urls":["https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard/image-edit"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/best-ai-for-single-image-editing-image-edit-9e542f.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/models/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models/","title":"Models","reason":"Explore the models topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}