Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 is a high-quality image generation model available via Azure AI Foundry. It produces photorealistic and artistic images from text prompts with support for various aspect ratios.
Modalities
Price
$5/M tokens
Context
4K
Released
Jun 2, 2026
Weekly Tokens
32.4M
Create an API key from your OpenRouter dashboard and set it as an environment variable:
Use microsoft/mai-image-2.5 with the OpenRouter API:
OpenRouter supports image generation models that can output both text and images. These models can create images from text prompts when you specify modalities: ["image", "text"] in your request. The generated images are returned as base64-encoded data URLs in the assistant message. Learn more about image generation.
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Add "stream": true to your request body to receive responses as server-sent events:
Sends a request for a model response for the given chat conversation. Supports both streaming and non-streaming modes.
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completionsBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsmicrosoft/mai-image-2.5Creates a streaming or non-streaming response using the OpenAI Responses API format.
Docshttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responsesBearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEYapplication/jsonoptional — your site URL, for rankingsoptional — your site name, for rankingsmicrosoft/mai-image-2.5| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
max_tokens | integer | — | This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response. |
temperature | float | 1 | This setting influences the variety in the model's responses. |
max_completion_tokens | integer | — | This sets the upper limit for the number of tokens the model can generate in response. |