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Why use MAI-Image-2e on Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry offers MAI-Image-2e 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-2emai-image-2eRequest example
mai-image-2e.Gotchas
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Capabilities
About MAI-Image-2e
Microsoft AI image generation model optimized for efficiency — the 'e' stands for Efficient. Delivers flagship MAI-Image-2 quality at 41% lower cost, ~22% faster generation, and 4x better efficiency (normalized by latency and GPU usage). Generates photorealistic images up to 1024×1024 pixels with strong in-image text rendering and complex scene handling. Available in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground; rolling out to Copilot, Bing Image Creator, and PowerPoint. Pricing: $5/1M text input tokens, $19.50/1M image output tokens.