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MAI-Image-2.6
Released Aug 10, 2026
Microsoft AI's in-house flagship image model for generation and image-to-image editing, sold through Microsoft Foundry.
- Price per image
- —
- Max resolution
- 1536x1536
- AA arena Elo
- 1152
- LMArena Elo
- 1332
- Capabilities
- text to image, editing, inpainting, text rendering, reference images
- Licence
- Proprietary
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Microsoft reports text rendering up 91 Arena Elo over MAI-Image-2.5
- Optional Bing web grounding and model-chosen aspect ratio
- Edits accept up to five reference images
- Edits include object removal, replacement, inpainting and text updates
Weaknesses
- Public preview only in Foundry (no SLA)
- Output capped at 2,359,296 total pixels (1536x1536 equivalent)
Announced 2026-08-10 (microsoft.ai post, updated 2026-09-04). Foundry public preview was announced 2026-09-04, and the Foundry model version is 2026-07-31. maxResolution is the square equivalent of the 2,359,296-pixel cap. Either side may be longer if the total stays within it, and each side must be at least 768px. The Foundry API id is the catalog model name. Callers address their own deployment name. The sibling MAI-Image-2.6-Flash ranked #11 on AA and is not included.
Links
API model strings
- azure-foundry
MAI-Image-2.6