Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 is an image generation and editing model available via Azure AI Foundry. It creates images from text prompts and supports image-guided editing across multiple aspect ratios.
Modalities
Price
$5/M tokens
Context
4K
Released
Sep 4, 2026
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
| $5.00 | $8.00 | $38.00 | 29.80s |
End-to-end latency
29.80s
P50, best provider
100.00%
99.92%
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 is an image generation and editing model available via Azure AI Foundry. It creates images from text prompts and supports image-guided editing across multiple aspect ratios.
MAI-Image-2.6 costs $5.00/M tokens for Text Input, $8.00/M tokens for Image Input and $38.00/M tokens for Image Output.
MAI-Image-2.6 supports the 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 16:9, 9:16, 3:2 and 1 more aspect ratios.
MAI-Image-2.6 accepts text and images as input and returns images. Up to 5 reference images can be attached to one request for image editing.
MAI-Image-2.6 Flash, MAI-Image-2.5 Pro and MAI-Image-2.5 are other image models from Microsoft.
MAI-Image-2.6 was released on September 4, 2026.