MAI-Image-2.5
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Microsoft
- C · CEO & Politics
- Satya Nadella — Centrist / moderate
- D · Date
- 2026
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Images
- H · Deployment
- Cloud (Microsoft Foundry, OpenRouter; PowerPoint and OneDrive)
- I · Inputs
- Text→Image
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Mustafa Suleyman (CEO Microsoft AI), Kevin Scott (CTO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Image Generation
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Microsoft Foundry API: $5/M text input tokens, $8/M image input tokens, $47/M image output tokens
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 8/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 8/10 · Currency 10/10 · Access 5.5/10 · Significance 6/10 → 7.72
- R · What Makes It Special
- MAI-Image-2.5 (June 2, 2026), Microsoft AI's image generation and editing model, with a faster, cheaper MAI-Image-2.5-Flash: it improves text rendering, product imagery and prompt adherence, makes localized edits that keep perspective, shadows and faces, and ranked No. 2 on Arena's image-edit leaderboard and No. 3 for text-to-image, ahead of GPT-Image-1.5 and Nano Banana Pro 2K. On Foundry it costs $5/$47 per million text-input/image-output tokens; it also powers PowerPoint and OneDrive.
- S · Stock / Status
- $516 (MSFT, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @Microsoft
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Image Generation from Microsoft, released 2026.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“MAI-Image-2.5.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/microsoft-mai-image-2-5.html
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