---
id: "microsoft/mai-image-2.6"
also: ["microsoft/mai-image-2.6-20260904", "vercel/microsoft/mai-image-2.6"]
cheapest_list_usd_per_m: "5.0 in, 0.0 out, at azure on openrouter"
cheapest_effective_usd_per_m: "5.0 in, 38.0 out, at azure on vercel"
context: 4096
max_output: 1024
input: ["text", "image"]
output: ["image"]
released: "2026-09-04"
api: ["/api/v1/images"]
params: ["max_completion_tokens", "max_tokens", "stop", "temperature"]
endpoints: 2
gateways: "openrouter (1), vercel (1)"
no_training: 2
trains: 0
retains_prompts: 0
---
# Microsoft AI: MAI-Image-2.6

MAI-Image-2.6 is a diffusion-based generative model designed for both high-quality text-to-image synthesis and precise, controllable image-to-image editing. It progressively transforms random noise into a coherent image aligned with a given text prompt, leveraging a flow-matching loss to learn a continuous transformation between the noise distribution and the data distribution. MAI-Image-2.6 excels at precise, surgical edits with consistency - enabling users and developers to make targeted object edits, adapt layouts, update text, clean up artifacts like motion blur, and preserve visual consistency across iterations.