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MAI-Image-2.5-Flash

Cheapest MAI image tier with published pricing — $1.75/1M for both text and image input and $19.50/1M image output, roughly 2.4x cheaper output than MAI-Image-2.5 for high-volume concept art and thumbnails.

Data checked 2026-09-06

Microsoft preview MAI-Image-2.5-Flash

Context window
32K tokens in
Max output
—
Input
$1.75 per 1M tokens
Output
$19.50 per 1M tokens
Blended
$6.19 3:1 in:out
Released
2026-06-02
Licence
proprietary

A What it is for

Retires 2026-10-01.

At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, MAI-Image-2.5-Flash costs $6.19 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $245.55 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.

B Capabilities

Not documented.
Input modalitiestext, image
Output modalitiesimage

C Others from Microsoft

Model Context Max out In $/M Out $/M Blended Status
MAI-Thinking-1 MAI-Thinking-1 256K 64K $2.00 $8.00 $3.50 preview
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash MAI-Cyber-1-Flash — — $0.60 $3.50 $1.32 preview
MAI-Image-2.6 MAI-Image-2.6 32K — — — — preview
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash MAI-Image-2.6-Flash 32K — — — — preview
MAI-Image-2.5-Pro MAI-Image-2.5-Pro 32K — $5.00 $106.00 $30.25 preview
MAI-Image-2.5 MAI-Image-2.5 32K — $5.00 $47.00 $15.50 preview
MAI-Voice-2 MAI-Voice-2 — — — — — preview
MAI-Voice-2-Flash MAI-Voice-2-Flash — — — — — preview
MAI-Voice-1 MAI-Voice-1 — — — — — deprecated
MAI-Transcribe-2 MAI-Transcribe-2 — — — — — preview
MAI-Transcribe-1.5 MAI-Transcribe-1.5 — — — — — preview
MAI-Transcribe-1 MAI-Transcribe-1 — — — — — deprecated

D Verify before you commit

Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.

Source: prices.azure.com · checked 2026-09-06 · Microsoft pricing · API docs