MAI-Image-2.5
The balanced default for text-to-image and surgical image editing on Azure: $5.00/1M text input, $8.00/1M image input, $47.00/1M image output.
Data checked 2026-09-06
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preview
MAI-Image-2.5
- Context window
- 32K tokens in
- Max output
- —
- Input
- $5.00 per 1M tokens
- Output
- $47.00 per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $15.50 3:1 in:out
- Released
- 2026-06-02
- Licence
- proprietary
A What it is for
Retires 2026-10-01, so start new work on the 2.6 series.
At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, MAI-Image-2.5 costs $15.50 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $615.30 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.
B Capabilities
| Input modalities | text, image |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | image |
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-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