MAI Models: Better, faster, and cheaper than our competitors.
We are rapidly deploying these top-tier models to power our own consumer and commercial products. We’re excited to share the quality, speed, and efficiency gains with our Microsoft Foundry customers with very competitive pricing.
· MAI-Transcribe-1 starts at $0.36 per hour.
· MAI-Voice-1 starts at $22 per 1M characters.
· MAI-Image-2 starts at $5 per 1M tokens for text input and $33 per 1M tokens for image output.
Available now on Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground.
Starting today, every developer can build with MAI models, including MAI-Transcribe-1, through Microsoft Foundry. You can also try them in the MAI Playground (US only).
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Models that are built to be better from the inside out.
At Microsoft AI, we’re building Humanist AI. We have a distinct view when creating our AI models — putting humans at the center, optimizing for how people actually communicate, training for practical use. You’ll see more models from us soon in Foundry and directly in Microsoft products and experiences.
Consistent with our commitment to safe and responsible AI, these MAI models were developed, tested, and rigorously red-teamed. Through Microsoft Foundry, developers get built-in guardrails, governance, and enterprise-grade controls designed to support safe, compliant deployment at scale.
Model Cards
Download Model Card for MAI-Transcribe-1
Download Model Card for MAI-Voice-1
Download Model Card for MAI-Image-2
1. Top 25 languages by Microsoft product usage.
2. Out of the top 25 global languages, MAI-Transcribe-1 ranks 1st by FLEURS in 11 core languages. It wins against Whisper-large-v3 on the remaining 14 and Gemini 3.1 Flash on 11 of those 14.
