Azure Cognitive Services model pricing.
prices as of · 53 models · 53 prices
Sells many makers' models through one API and one bill.
Azure Cognitive Services is a router selling 53 models, from $0.06 per million tokens for text-embedding-3-small, read on 16 Sept 2026.
Kind of provider
Router
home country not stated
Where it runs
not stated
no regions published
How you pay
not stated
no payment terms published
Free tier
none published
nothing given away
Where Azure Cognitive Services's prices land, and why
Azure Cognitive Services publishes 53 prices we can compare, and 3 of them are below the list price for that model. 1 of those have a published reason behind them, so they rank like any other price. The other 2 sit below list on models whose weights are closed, with nothing published to account for the gap, so they are listed here in full and ranked nowhere on the site. Nobody here has read its terms, legal entity and data policy yet, so treat what it says about itself as its own claim.
Azure Cognitive Services does not say whether it trains on what you send it. It does not say how long it keeps requests.
not yet checked: terms, legal entity and data policy
Models to start with
all 53 prices ↓- Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI · 262k context · 82 providers sell it$0.95 / $4same as list
- DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek · 164k context · 54 providers sell it$0.58 / $1.68176% above list
- Kimi K2.5Moonshot AI · 262k context · 52 providers sell it$0.60 / $3same as list
- Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic · 1M context · 51 providers sell it$3 / $15same as list
- Claude Opus 4.8Anthropic · 1M context · 49 providers sell it$5 / $25same as list
Everything Azure Cognitive Services sells, against the list price
Cheapest first inside each group. The share is this row against the price the lab that trained the model charges.
Cheaper, and we know why
1 priceBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Mistral Medium (latest)
Mistral AI · 262k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.40 / $2in / out per M
0.27×of list price
Same price as the maker
50 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.02 / $0in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.04 / $0.04in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.13 / $0in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.30in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.13 / $0.50in / out per M
2.50×of list price
$0.15 / $0.60in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.30 / $0.90in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.20 / $1.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $2in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $2in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.40 / $1.60in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.71 / $0.71in / out per M
4.58×of list price
$0.58 / $1.68in / out per M
2.76×of list price
$0.60 / $3in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.50 / $2in / out per M
2.17×of list price
$0.75 / $4.50in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.95 / $4in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.10 / $4.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.10 / $4.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $5in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $6in / out per M
5.00×of list price
$1.35 / $5.40in / out per M
2.46×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $8in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $8in / out per M
1.00×of list price
showing the 30 cheapest of 50 · every row in the open dataset
Cheaper, and nobody says why
2 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
- GPT-4o
OpenAI · 128k context
0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2.50 / $10in / out per M
0.58×of list price
- GPT-4 Turbo
OpenAI · 128k context
0.33× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$10 / $30in / out per M
0.40×of list price
Frequently asked
- What is Azure Cognitive Services?
- Sells many makers' models through one API and one bill. It sells 53 of the models we track.
- Is Azure Cognitive Services cheaper than buying from the maker?
- 3 of its 53 prices sit below the list price for the model, and 1 of those have a published reason behind them, so they can lead a ranking. 2 are listed and never ranked.
- Does Azure Cognitive Services train on what you send it?
- Azure Cognitive Services does not say whether it trains on what you send it. It does not say how long it keeps requests.
- How current are these Azure Cognitive Services prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read, last read 16 Sept 2026. Prices exclude tax.