MAI-Transcribe-1.5

Name: MAI-Transcribe-1.5
Author: Microsoft AI

Released

2026-06-02

Last refreshed

2026-06-15

Status

Researched 90d ago

ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalMultimodalVisionAudio

MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating vision
Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Specifications

Family: MAI
Released: 2026-06-02
Architecture: Audio / Speech
Specialization: speech-recognition
Openness: Proprietary
License: ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
Weights: Not released
Code: Unknown
Training: Fine-tuned

Created by

Microsoft AI

Applied AI products and platforms from Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

Input / 1M

Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry

Providers(1)

Microsoft Foundry

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Links

Website

About

MAI-Transcribe-1.5 is Microsoft AI's second-generation speech-to-text transcription model. It supports 43 languages, domain-specific terminology recognition, and Microsoft-reported five-times-faster transcription than competing models while maintaining state-of-the-art accuracy. Streaming support was announced as coming soon at launch.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Microsoft Foundry	-	-	ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(5)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSMicrosoft Foundry

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.

SubscriptionMicrosoft Foundry

Azure AI Foundry Model Router

Router

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.

PassthroughMicrosoft Foundry

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionMicrosoft Foundry

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionMicrosoft Foundry

Capabilities

MultimodalAudio

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.