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Wan 2.5 Image-to-Image Preview is a closed-weights image model from Alibaba, released September 2025.

Model information sources

Release date ↗

52.8±4.0#74 of 144 image modelsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of Wan 2.5 Image-to-Image Preview, out of 197 with a score, then more from Alibaba.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
90Kling Image 2.1 Kuaishou53±7api $0.014/image
91Imagen 4 Fast Google53±4comparison only2025-08
92Wan 2.5 Image-to-Image Preview Alibaba53±4api $0.030/image2025-09
93MiniMax image-01 MiniMax53±5api $0.0035/image
94Ideogram 3.0 Ideogram52±2api $0.060/image2025-03
more from Alibaba
11Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro Alibaba75±2api $0.040/image2026-07
18Qwen-Image-2.1 Alibaba69±2local~12GB2026-09
20Qwen-Image-2.0-Pro (2026-06-22) Alibaba67±2api $0.075/image2026-06

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$ what it's good at

image to image / editing▁▁·▃▂▃█▃▃▄▁▁ #47 of 62 * · 93% of its score · 1 test

Beats GPT Image 1 Mini, FLUX.1 Kontext [max] here, though they rank higher overall. Trails GLM-Image, FLUX.2 [klein] 4B, Ideogram 3.0 here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Arena image edit1181.1 ✎▂▁▁▂▆▇█▄▆▅▁▂ beats 9/53avg 1153▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 93%typical

$ where to run it

Through an API

api · Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · $0.030/image · www.alibabacloud.com ↗ · price sourceUSD per output image, Singapore (international) deployment; only output is billed; China (Beijing) lists $0.028671. Free quota and promotions excluded. Product: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio image generation. API model: wan2.5-i2i-preview. Settings: region=Singapore (international), n=1. Price basis: published list rate. Currency: USD. Alibaba Cloud official model pricing page, observed 2026-09-26.

$ how the score was worked out · LMArena leaderboard dataset 93%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
LMArena leaderboard dataset1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 93%CC BY 4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇ 7%
weighted average= 52.8

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