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microsoftReleased Sep 4, 2026

Microsoft AI: MAI-Image-2.6 Flash

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 quality to the precision tier....

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Context window4.1K
Max output1K
Provider endpoints1
Benchmark results1
Image input
Measured performance

Benchmark results

All leaderboards ↗
AA-Image-T2I ↗2.1
1,118.54

Text-to-image · all categories

95% CI 1,106.54–1,130.54 · n=5,235

Independent result
Access & cost

Prices across providers

1 quote · 3 price components

Azure

via OpenRouter

variant=default

Conditional rate
Text input
$1.75USD / 1M tokens
Image input
$2.50USD / 1M tokens
Image output
$19.00USD / 1M tokens

Input/reference charges are listed separately. · Billing component; not a complete generation price.

Price source ↗Checked Oct 17, 2026
Endpoint IDmicrosoft/mai-image-2.6-flash::azure

Model specifications

Developer
microsoft
Modality
Image
Context
4,096 tokens
Maximum output
1,024 tokens
Weights
Not reported
Released
Sep 4, 2026
Provider listed
Sep 4, 2026
First discovered
Oct 16, 2026

Exact identities

  • openroutermicrosoft/mai-image-2.6-flash
  • aa-imagedaa01918-0450-4825-992a-eade1f981683

Sources

OpenRouter ↗Artificial Analysis Image Arena ↗

Updated Oct 18, 2026

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