Microsoft MAI-Image 2.6
Microsoft AI's precision image model for design-ready visuals, which generates from a prompt and edits or composes from up to five reference images.
From Microsoft, MAI-Image 2.6 is a cloud image-generation model. It generates images from a text prompt, and can take reference images to guide style or composition (image-to-image). It supports 7 aspect ratios. It runs through OpenRouter using your own API key, from about $0.0389 per image.
- Released
- Sep 2026
- Pricing
- $0.0389 per image
- Aspect ratios
- 1:1, 4:3, 3:4 +4 more
- Image-to-image
- Up to 5 reference images
Samples
Generated with MAI-Image 2.6 via OpenRouter. The same three prompts run against every model in the catalog, first result kept, so the only thing that changes between two models’ tiles is the model.
Materials, reflections, macro detail
Skin texture, lighting, shallow depth of field
Text rendering, layout, flat colour
Microsoft
Microsoft builds the open-weight Phi family of small language models for reasoning, math and code. Microsoft AI also makes MAI-Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that covers 60 languages.
azure.microsoft.com/products/phi ↗The lower-latency, lower-cost member of Microsoft AI's MAI-Image 2.6 family, built for high-throughput image generation and editing from up to five reference images.
The highest-fidelity tier of Microsoft AI's MAI-Image 2.5 family, producing photorealistic and artistic images from a prompt or one reference image.
Microsoft AI's image model for photorealistic and artistic images from a prompt or one reference image, in seven aspect ratios.
Microsoft AI's highest-fidelity text-to-speech model, with detailed prosody and a consistent speaker over long passages. It reads in 23 languages through preset voices across 28 locales, and the voice you pick sets the language.
Microsoft AI's low-latency text-to-speech model, built for real-time responsiveness. It reads in 23 languages through the same preset voices as MAI-Voice-2.1, across 28 locales, and the voice you pick sets the language.
Microsoft AI's multilingual transcription model, which covers 60 languages with automatic language detection and returns plain text.