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Using MAI-Image-2.5 on Microsoft Foundry

Implementation guide · MAI · Microsoft AI

Serverless

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Microsoft Foundry and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call MAI-Image-2.5 — see the documentation for request format.

Code Examples

See Microsoft Foundry documentation for integration details.

About Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft Foundry offers a comprehensive platform-as-a-service for enterprise AI operations. It provides multiple deployment options including Serverless APIs (pay-as-you-go), Global Standard (shared managed capacity), Provisioned Throughput Units (reserved capacity), batch processing, and bring-your-own model deployments. The platform features a unified control plane for models, agents, tools, and observability. Its Agent Service enables building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing, monitoring, and governance. Evaluation and monitoring tools assess model performance, safety, and groundedness. Foundry supports seamless upgrades from Azure OpenAI with non-destructive migration, maintaining existing deployments while unlocking multi-provider model access and advanced platform capabilities.

Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. It provides access to over 1,900 models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Hugging Face, and more. Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations.

Pricing on Microsoft Foundry

TypePrice (per 1M)
Image input$1.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

About MAI-Image-2.5

MAI-Image-2.5 is a Microsoft AI text-to-image generation and image-to-image editing model. It supports precise edits such as object removal and replacement, attribute changes, inpainting, text updates, and artifact cleanup while preserving composition. Microsoft positions it for high-fidelity portraits, accurate text rendering inside images, and Azure AI Foundry Global Standard deployment across seven regions. It ranked #2 on the Arena AI image editing leaderboard and #3 on the Arena AI text-to-image leaderboard at launch, but no LLMReference-standard numeric image benchmark row is available yet.

Model Specs

Released2026-06-02
Context32k
Architecturediffusion

Provider

Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States