Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Azure's model catalog and inference service, including OpenAI models plus Grok, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Cohere, Phi and others, billed on an Azure subscription.

Fee on tokens

List price

Pricing model

Per 1M (or 1K) tokens on your Azure bill; Global deployment at OpenAI list price, Data Zone and Regional deployments cost 10% more; PTUs for provisioned throughput

Bring your own key

No

Entry plan

Usage based

Hosting

Hosted

Features stated: none found. Not stated: Fallbacks, Load balancing, Caching, Guardrails, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, Prompts, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key, Data residency, Private networking.

The terms, in their words

Markup

Per 1M (or 1K) tokens on your Azure bill; Global deployment at OpenAI list price, Data Zone and Regional deployments cost 10% more; PTUs for provisioned throughput

Providers

Azure Retail Prices API (serviceName 'Foundry Models', eastus2) lists 1,722 meters across products incl. Azure OpenAI, Grok, Llama, Mistral, Deepseek, Cohere, Phi, Kimi, Qwen, MAI, Fireworks, BFL Flux

• Pay-as-you-go for input and output tokens
• that returns completions within 24 hours for a 50% discount on Global Standard Pricing.
• Data Zone Deployment - Geographic based (EU or US)

Source: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-openai/

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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