MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash

Released
2026-10-01
Last refreshed
2026-10-06
Status
Researched today
ProprietaryCommercial use: conditionalAudio
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Specifications
Family
MAI
Released
2026-10-01
Architecture
Audio / Speech
Specialization
text-to-speech
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
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Input / 1M
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Cheapest of 2 routes · Microsoft Foundry

Providers(2)
Microsoft FoundryVercel AI Gateway
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Links
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About

MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash is Microsoft AI's low-latency text-to-speech model for high-volume voice agents, launched 1 October 2026 alongside MAI-Voice-2.1. It covers the same 23 languages and cross-language voices with about 150 ms end-to-end latency and supports voice cloning. Priced at $15 per 1M characters.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Microsoft Foundry--
ServerlessPartial
Vercel AI Gateway--
ServerlessPartial

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LiteLLM

Gateway

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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.

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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.

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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

Audio

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash