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Microsoft AI: MAI-Image-2.6

microsoft/mai-image-2.6

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MAI-Image-2.6 is an image generation and editing model from Microsoft AI, the precision tier of the MAI-Image-2.6 family alongside the faster MAI-Image-2.6 Flash. It is suited for design-ready visuals and controlled, iterative editing, and is particularly strong at multi-reference editing that combines people, products, styles, and scenes from up to five input images while preserving composition, style, and detail. Aspect ratio can be fixed or left to the model to choose for the composition.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$8 / $38per 1M

Context

4K

Released

Sep 4, 2026

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Playground

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Pricing

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.

Performance

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

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.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

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.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

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.

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End-to-end latency

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P50, best provider

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.

100.00%

Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.

99.38%

Availability over the last 3 days

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Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
97.57%

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Frequently asked questions

MAI-Image-2.6 is an image generation and editing model from Microsoft AI, the precision tier of the MAI-Image-2.6 family alongside the faster MAI-Image-2.6 Flash. It is suited for design-ready visuals and controlled, iterative editing, and is particularly strong at multi-reference editing that combines people, products, styles, and scenes from up to five input images while preserving...

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.