MAI-Image-2.6
Newest MAI image model — best text rendering, portraits and commercial/photoreal output in the family, and the only tier with auto_aspect_ratio and Bing web_grounding; no published price yet, so budget against MAI-Image-2.5 rates.
Data checked 2026-09-06
Microsoft
preview
MAI-Image-2.6
- Context window
- 32K tokens in
- Max output
- —
- Input
- — per 1M tokens
- Output
- — per 1M tokens
- Released
- 2026-07-31
- Licence
- proprietary
A What it is for
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-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 |
How this model is billed. Model is real and in Public Preview in Microsoft Foundry (announced Sept 4, 2026). Microsoft Learn (models-sold-directly-by-azure) lists `MAI-Image-2.6` **Preview**: input text+image, output 'One image', context length 32,000 tokens, response format PNG, no tool calling. NO per-token price is published: the model is absent from the official Foundry Models pricing page (azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pr
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: microsoft.ai · checked 2026-09-06 · Microsoft pricing · API docs