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Vendors

Azure

Azure is Microsoft's cloud. It sells OpenAI's models and open models per token through Azure AI Foundry and rents GPU virtual machines by the hour, in more than sixty regions.

Azure sells 39 of the compared models per token and prices 8 kinds of GPU for hosting your own.

Models sold per token

The cheapest price anywhere, at the standard tier.
ModelInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokens
Cohere Command A$0.80$3.20
DeepSeek V3.2$0.62$1.85
DeepSeek V4 Flash$0.15$0.31
DeepSeek V4 Pro$1.93$3.83
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$0.375$1.50
GLM 5$1.10$3.52
GLM 5.1$1.54$4.84
GLM 5.2$1.54$4.84
GLM 5.3$1.75$5.50
GLM 5.3 Flash$0.188$0.625
GPT-4.1$2.00$8.00
GPT-4.1 mini$0.40$1.60
GPT-4o$0.60$5.00
GPT-5$1.25$10.00
GPT-5 mini$0.25$2.00
GPT-5 nano$0.05$0.40
GPT-5.1$1.25$10.00
GPT-5.2$1.75$14.00
GPT-5.4$2.50$15.00
GPT-5.4 mini$0.75$4.50
GPT-5.4 nano$0.20$1.25
GPT-5.5$5.00$30.00
GPT-5.6 Luna$0.20$1.20
GPT-5.6 Sol$4.00$20.00
GPT-5.6 Terra$2.00$12.00
GPT-6 Astra$10.00$50.00
GPT-6 Luna$0.10$0.50
GPT-6 Sol$2.00$10.00
Kimi K2.5$0.66$3.30
Kimi K2.6$1.04$4.40
Kimi K2.7 Code$1.05$4.40
Kimi K3$3.00$15.00
Llama 3.3 70B$0.71$0.71
Llama 4 Maverick 17B$0.25$1.00
MiniMax M2.5$0.33$1.32
OpenAI gpt-oss 120B$0.15$0.60
OpenAI gpt-oss 20B$0.07$0.30
Phi-4$0.075$0.30
Qwen3 32B$0.30$1.20

GPUs for hosting your own

On demand.
GPUFrom, per GPU-hourCheapest instanceGPUs in it
A10$0.454Standard_NV6ads_A10_v51 × 4 GB
T4$0.526Standard_NC4as_T4_v31 × 16 GB
RTX PRO 6000$1.44Standard_NC36ds_xl_RTXPRO6000BSE_v61 × 24 GB
A100$3.40Standard_ND96asr_v48 × 40 GB
H100$6.98Standard_NC40ads_H100_v51 × 94 GB
MI300X$8.58Standard_ND96isr_MI300X_v58 × 192 GB
H200$15.16Standard_ND96isr_H200_v58 × 141 GB
GB200$27.04Standard_ND128isr_NDR_GB200_v64 × 192 GB

Where it runs

45 regions in 27 countries.

CountryRegionsPer-token modelsGPU kinds
Swedenswedencentral39—
United Statescentralus, eastus, eastus2, northcentralus, southcentralus, westcentralus, westus, westus2, westus3396
Francefrancecentral38—
Germanygermanynorth, germanywestcentral38—
Netherlandswesteurope385
Norwaynorwayeast38—
Polandpolandcentral38—
Spainspaincentral38—
Switzerlandswitzerlandnorth, switzerlandwest38—
United Kingdomuksouth, ukwest38—
Irelandnortheurope26—
Australiaaustraliaeast, australiasoutheast25—
Brazilbrazilsouth25—
Canadacanadacentral, canadaeast25—
Indiacentralindia, jioindiawest, southindia25—
Italyitalynorth25—
Japanjapaneast, japanwest25—
South Africasouthafricanorth25—
South Koreakoreacentral25—
United Arab Emiratesuaenorth256
Singaporesoutheastasia18—
Malaysiamalaysiawest16—
Qatarqatarcentral13—
United States, governmentusgovarizona, usgovvirginia11—
Indonesiaindonesiacentral10—
Hong Kongeastasia8—
Belgiumbelgiumcentral2—
Denmarkdenmarkeast2—

Where the prices come from

Sources

List prices collected 3 November 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.