Microsoft Foundry exposes MAI-Image-2.6-Flash through model ID MAI-Image-2.6-Flash. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.
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Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
MAI-Image-2.6-Flash— see the documentation for request format.
Code Examples
Pricing on Microsoft Foundry
| 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.