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| 2 models | microsoftMicrosoft AI: MAI-Image-2.6 FlashRemove × | black-forest-labsBlack Forest Labs: FLUX 3 ImageRemove × |
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| What’s different | MAI-Image-2.6 Flash is the lower-latency, lower-cost member of the MAI-Image-2.6 family from Microsoft AI, built for latency-sensitive, high-throughput production image generation and editing at comparable… | FLUX.3 Image is Black Forest Labs' flagship image generation and editing model. It handles text-to-image and multi-reference editing with up to 10 input images, and renders at fixed resolution tiers... |
| Date | Sep 4, 2026Released | Oct 1, 2026Released |
API prices USD · provider configuration shown below | ||
| Listed rate | $19.00/ 1M output tokens + $1.75 / 1M text-input tokens · $2.50 / 1M image-input tokens Azure · via OpenRouter · Conditional | $0.041/ imageBlack Forest Labs · via OpenRouter · all routes ↗black-forest-labs · output image · variant=768 |
| Provider endpoints | 1 endpoint → | 2 endpoints → |
Benchmarks Each result retains its evaluation configuration | ||
| AA Image ↗2.1 | 1,119.12 ↗Text-to-image · all categoriesIndependent result95% CI 1,107.12–1,131.12 · n=5,482 | 1,117.15 ↗Text-to-image · all categoriesIndependent result95% CI 1,105.15–1,129.15 · n=6,115 |
Specifications | ||
| Context window | 4.1K | 46.9K |
| Max output | 1K | 42.2K |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Image input | Supported | Supported |