MAI-Transcribe-1 and MAI-Image-2 (with MAI-Voice-1) in Foundry
Three in-house models go on sale in Microsoft Foundry, with MAI-Transcribe-1 from $0.36/hour, MAI-Voice-1 at $22 per 1M characters, and MAI-Image-2.
Moves MAI models from Copilot features to a paid developer catalog. MAI-Transcribe-1 ranks first on FLEURS in 11 core languages and beats Whisper-large-v3 on the other 14 of its 25.
- Date
- Thursday, 2 April 2026
- Lab
- Microsoft
- Kind
- model
- Access
- closed API
- Price
- Transcribe $0.36/h; Voice $22 per 1M chars; Image $5 in / $33 per 1M image-out tokens (2026-04)
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| MAI-Transcribe-1 price | from $0.36 per hour 25 languages; batch 2.5x faster than Azure's prior offering | company |
Post is dated 2026-04-02 and was updated 2026-06-09; MAI-Image-2 may have appeared in Microsoft products slightly earlier.
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