{"slug": "mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "title": "MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash now available on AI Gateway", "summary": "Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash image models are now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, callable via the AI SDK or AI CLI with one API key and no provider account. Both models support photorealistic imagery, text rendering, and targeted edits with up to five reference images and output sizes up to 1536 × 1536, with MAI-Image-2.6 positioned for final assets and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash for faster, lower-cost iteration. Developers use the model IDs microsoft/mai-image-2.6 and microsoft/mai-image-2.6-flash with the generateImage call.", "body_md": "[MAI-Image-2.6](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/mai-image-2.6) and [MAI-Image-2.6-Flash](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/mai-image-2.6-flash) from Microsoft are now available on [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway). Generate images from text or edit existing images through the [AI SDK](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/modalities/image-generation/ai-sdk) or the [AI CLI](https://github.com/vercel-labs/ai-cli), with one API key and no provider account.\n\nBoth models support photorealistic imagery, text rendering, and targeted edits to products, portraits, and layouts. You can provide up to five reference images to guide edits or combine subjects, with output sizes up to 1536 × 1536.\n\n**MAI-Image-2.6** (`microsoft/mai-image-2.6`) for final assets, when image quality matters more than speed.\n\n**MAI-Image-2.6-Flash** (`microsoft/mai-image-2.6-flash`) for faster generation at a lower cost, when you need many iterations, such as exploring prompts or generating variations.\n\nUse `microsoft/mai-image-2.6` or `microsoft/mai-image-2.6-flash` as the model ID. To generate an image, call `generateImage` with a text prompt:\n\nEdit images by passing it as input with an instruction:\n\nTry MAI Image 2.6 and MAI Image 2.6 Flash in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/mai-image-2.6), or see the [image generation guide](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/modalities/image-generation/ai-sdk).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-10-13 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 00:04:33.400603+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Microsoft", "Vercel", "MAI-Image-2.6", "MAI-Image-2.6-Flash", "AI Gateway", "AI SDK", "AI CLI"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mai-image-2-6-and-mai-image-2-6-flash-now-available-on-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}