Using MAI-Image-2.6 on Vercel AI Gateway

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Vercel AI Gateway exposes MAI-Image-2.6 through model ID microsoft/mai-image-2.6. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-10-19. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

1
Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call microsoft/mai-image-2.6 — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $5.00/1M input, $38.00/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

API Portal Documentation Pricing Model Card

Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

microsoft/mai-image-2.6

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="microsoft/mai-image-2.6",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$5.00
Output tokens	$38.00

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

About MAI-Image-2.6

MAI-Image-2.6 is Microsoft's quality-tier image generation/editing model (Foundry id MAI-Image-2.6), sibling to MAI-Image-2.6-Flash. Text-to-image and controllable edits with multi-reference and web grounding.

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Model Specs

Released2026-08-10

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