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MAI-Image-2.6

MAI-Image-2.6 is an AI model made by Microsoft. It is in preview. It takes text, image and returns image. Its context window is 32,000 tokens.

Released: Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 2026-08-10 and 2026-08-14
Status: Preview — ai.azure.com, read 16 October 2026
Takes: Text, Image — ai.azure.com, read 16 October 2026
Returns: Image — ai.azure.com, read 16 October 2026
Open weights: Not confirmed: The maker's cited model pages do not state whether the model's weights are open.
Licence: Not confirmed: The maker's cited pages do not print the name of a licence for this model.
Context window: 32,000 tokens — ai.azure.com, read 16 October 2026
Longest answer: Not confirmed: two readings disagree: 4096 and 2359296
Knowledge cutoff: Not confirmed: The maker's cited pages do not state a knowledge-cutoff date for this model.
API price, input: Not confirmed: The maker's pages do not print a standard input price per 1,000,000 tokens for this image model.
API price, output: Not confirmed: The maker's pages do not print a standard output price per 1,000,000 tokens for this image model.
Where: Not confirmed: two readings disagree: api, app, cloud and api, app
Parameters: Not confirmed: The maker's cited pages do not publish the model's parameter count.
Model card: Not confirmed: two readings disagree: https://ai.azure.com/catalog/models/MAI-Image-2.6 and https://microsoft.ai/pdf/MAI-Image-2.6-Model-Card.pdf

Questions

It is in preview: Microsoft has not made it generally available yet.

The context window of MAI-Image-2.6 is 32,000 tokens, as Microsoft prints it.

MAI-Image-2.6 takes text, image and returns image.