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MAI-Image-2.5-Pro

The quality ceiling of the 2.5 series — buy it only for visually dense scenes needing object/character consistency, material accuracy and spatial reasoning, because image output costs $106/1M tokens vs $47 on plain 2.5 (image input is $8.00/1M).

Data checked 2026-09-06

Microsoft preview MAI-Image-2.5-Pro

Context window
32K tokens in
Max output
—
Input
$5.00 per 1M tokens
Output
$106.00 per 1M tokens
Blended
$30.25 3:1 in:out
Released
2026-06-19
Licence
proprietary

A What it is for

Retires 2026-10-01.

At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, MAI-Image-2.5-Pro costs $30.25 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $1199.40 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 MAI-Image-2.5 32K — $5.00 $47.00 $15.50 preview
MAI-Image-2.5-Flash MAI-Image-2.5-Flash 32K — $1.75 $19.50 $6.19 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