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Why use MAI-Image-2.6-Flash on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers MAI-Image-2.6-Flash with competitive pricing. Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: MAI-Image-2.6-FlashMAI-Image-2.6-FlashRequest example
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "MAI-Image-2.6-Flash", not the LLMReference slug "mai-image-2-6-flash".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Image input | $1.00 |
Capabilities
About MAI-Image-2.6-Flash
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash is Microsoft AI's faster, lower-cost variant of MAI-Image-2.6 for text-to-image generation and image-to-image editing. Announced September 4, 2026 alongside bringing MAI-Image-2.6 to developers in Microsoft Foundry, it is positioned for latency-sensitive, high-throughput production workloads with the same diffusion-based generation and editing capabilities as MAI-Image-2.6, including multi-image reference editing, web grounding, and dynamic aspect ratios. Microsoft AI reports it generates images 2.8x faster than GPT-Image-2-Medium with 72% greater efficiency, and describes Flash as production-ready quality at less than half the price of the flagship.