Using MAI-Image-2e on Microsoft Foundry

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-2e — see the documentation for request format.

Code Examples

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

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.