MAI-Thinking-1
Microsoft's own frontier reasoning model — pick it over GPT-5.x on Azure when you want a 256K-context, tool-calling reasoner at roughly a quarter of flagship pricing, and you can live with encrypted (non-inspectable) chain-of-thought and a preview SLA.
Data checked 2026-09-06
Microsoft
preview
MAI-Thinking-1
- Context window
- 256K tokens in
- Max output
- 64K tokens out
- Input
- $2.00 per 1M tokens
- Output
- $8.00 per 1M tokens
- Cached input
- $0.20 per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $3.50 3:1 in:out
- Released
- 2026-06-01
- Licence
- proprietary
A What it is for
At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, MAI-Thinking-1 costs $3.50 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $139.20 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.
B Capabilities
| Input modalities | text |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | text |
C Others from Microsoft
| Model | Context | Max out | In $/M | Out $/M | Blended | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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-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