Is Azure OpenAI a good LLM API provider?

Azure OpenAI offers 167 models with an average blended price of $35.40/1M tokens. Compare their pricing and model selection against other providers on Sector HQ.

Azure OpenAI LLM API Pricing

Q: What is Azure OpenAI's cheapest model?

Azure OpenAI's cheapest model is Text Embedding 3 Small at $0.015 per million tokens (blended). Input tokens cost $0.020/1M and output tokens cost Free/1M.

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What is Azure OpenAI's cheapest model?

Azure OpenAI's cheapest LLM is Text Embedding 3 Small at $0.015 per million tokens (blended). They offer 167 models total.

All Azure OpenAI Models by Price

77 models

#	Model	Provider	Input	Output	Quality	Released↓
28	GPT 5.1 Codex Mini	Azure OpenAI	$0.250	$2.00	Frontier	Nov 13
48	GPT 5.1 Codex	Azure OpenAI	$1.25	$10.00	Frontier	Nov 13
49	GPT 5.1 Chat	Azure OpenAI	$1.25	$10.00	Frontier	Nov 13
34	GPT Audio Mini	Azure OpenAI	$0.600	$2.40	—	Oct 6
35	GPT Realtime Mini	Azure OpenAI	$0.600	$2.40	—	Oct 6
10	GPT 5 Nano	Azure OpenAI	$0.050	$0.400	Strong	Aug 7
27	GPT 5 Mini	Azure OpenAI	$0.250	$2.00	Frontier	Aug 7
50	GPT 5 Codex	Azure OpenAI	$1.25	$10.00	Frontier	Aug 7
20	Grok 4 Fast Reasoning	Azure OpenAI	$0.200	$0.500	—	Jul 9
21	Grok 4 Fast Non Reasoning	Azure OpenAI	$0.200	$0.500	—	Jul 9
24	Grok Code Fast 1	Azure OpenAI	$0.200	$1.50	—	Jul 9
43	Codex Mini	Azure OpenAI	$1.50	$6.00	—	May 16
29	mistral-large-3	Azure OpenAI	$0.500	$1.50	Frontier	May 7
33	mistral-medium-2505	Azure OpenAI	$0.400	$2.00	Strong	May 7
42	MAI-DS-R1	Azure OpenAI	$1.35	$5.40	—	May 1
14	Phi-4-reasoning	Azure OpenAI	$0.125	$0.500	—	Apr 30
37	GPT Image 1 Mini	Azure OpenAI	$2.00	Free	—	Apr 23
7	Embed V 4.0	Azure OpenAI	$0.120	Free	—	Apr 15
41	GPT 4o Mini Transcribe	Azure OpenAI	$1.25	$5.00	Strong	Mar 20
13	mistral-small-2503	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	$0.300	Strong	Mar 17
9	Phi-4-mini-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.075	$0.300	—	Feb 26
11	Phi-4-mini-reasoning	Azure OpenAI	$0.080	$0.320	—	Feb 26
39	O3 Mini	Azure OpenAI	$1.10	$4.40	Strong	Jan 31
2	Ministral 3B	Azure OpenAI	$0.040	$0.040	—	Oct 16
40	O1 Mini	Azure OpenAI	$1.10	$4.40	Strong	Sep 12
15	Phi-3.5-mini-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.130	$0.520	—	Aug 21
22	Phi 3.5 MoE Instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.160	$0.640	—	Aug 21
45	mistral-large-2407	Azure OpenAI	$2.00	$6.00	Frontier	Jul 24
12	mistral-nemo	Azure OpenAI	$0.150	$0.150	Good	Jul 18
23	Phi-3-medium-128k-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.170	$0.680	—	May 21
16	Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.130	$0.520	—	Apr 23
17	Phi-3.5-vision-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.130	$0.520	—	Apr 23
18	Phi-3-small-128k-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.150	$0.600	—	Apr 23
19	Phi-3-small-8k-instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.150	$0.600	—	Apr 23
25	Jamba Instruct	Azure OpenAI	$0.500	$0.700	—	Mar 28
44	mistral-large-latest	Azure OpenAI	$2.00	$6.00	Frontier	Feb 26
1	Text Embedding 3 Small	Azure OpenAI	$0.020	Free	—	Jan 25
8	Text Embedding 3 Large	Azure OpenAI	$0.130	Free	—	Jan 25
3	Cohere Embed V3 English	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
4	Cohere Embed V3 Multilingual	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Nov 2
5	Text Embedding Ada 002	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Dec 15
26	GPT 35 Turbo 0301	Azure OpenAI	$0.200	$2.00	Good	Nov 30
30	GPT 35 Turbo 0125	Azure OpenAI	$0.500	$1.50	Good	Nov 30
31	GPT 35 Turbo	Azure OpenAI	$0.500	$1.50	Good	Nov 30
32	GPT 3.5 Turbo 0125	Azure OpenAI	$0.500	$1.50	Good	Nov 30
36	GPT 35 Turbo 1106	Azure OpenAI	$1.00	$2.00	Good	Nov 30
38	GPT 35 Turbo 0613	Azure OpenAI	$1.50	$2.00	Good	Nov 30
46	GPT 35 Turbo 16K	Azure OpenAI	$3.00	$4.00	Good	Nov 30
47	GPT 35 Turbo 16K 0613	Azure OpenAI	$3.00	$4.00	Good	Nov 30
6	Ada	Azure OpenAI	$0.100	Free	—	Jun 11

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Frequently Asked Questions

Azure OpenAI offers 167 models tracked on Sector HQ. The cheapest model starts at $0.015 per million tokens (blended rate).