How is Azure OpenAI pricing structured?

Azure OpenAI charges per 1,000 tokens separately for input (prompt) and output (completion) tokens. Pricing varies by model: GPT-4o is less expensive than GPT-4, and GPT-3.5-Turbo is the most economical. Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) offer predictable pricing for high-volume production workloads.

What is the difference between free and standard tiers?

The free tier provides limited monthly transactions for evaluation purposes with lower rate limits. The standard tier offers pay-as-you-go pricing with higher rate limits and SLA guarantees. For production workloads, always use the standard tier.

Can I set spending limits on Azure AI Services?

Azure AI Services do not have built-in spending caps, but you can use Azure Cost Management budgets with alerts to monitor spending and set up action groups to notify or take automated action when costs exceed thresholds.

Azure AI Services Cost Estimator

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Estimate Azure AI Services costs for OpenAI (GPT-4o/4/3.5), Vision, Language, Speech, and Document Intelligence.

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About This Tool

The Azure AI Services Cost Estimator helps you project monthly costs for Azure's cognitive services including Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4, GPT-3.5), Computer Vision, Language Understanding, Speech Services, and Document Intelligence (Form Recognizer). Each service has unique pricing dimensions like tokens, transactions, pages, or audio hours. This tool consolidates pricing models into a single calculator for accurate budgeting.

When to Use This Tool

•Estimating monthly Azure OpenAI costs for a chatbot processing a projected volume of prompt and completion tokens.
•Calculating Document Intelligence costs for an invoice processing pipeline based on page volume.
•Comparing Speech-to-Text pricing across different tiers for a call center transcription project.
•Budgeting for a multi-service AI application that combines vision, language, and speech capabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is Azure OpenAI pricing structured?: Azure OpenAI charges per 1,000 tokens separately for input (prompt) and output (completion) tokens. Pricing varies by model: GPT-4o is less expensive than GPT-4, and GPT-3.5-Turbo is the most economical. Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) offer predictable pricing for high-volume production workloads.
What is the difference between free and standard tiers?: The free tier provides limited monthly transactions for evaluation purposes with lower rate limits. The standard tier offers pay-as-you-go pricing with higher rate limits and SLA guarantees. For production workloads, always use the standard tier.
Can I set spending limits on Azure AI Services?: Azure AI Services do not have built-in spending caps, but you can use Azure Cost Management budgets with alerts to monitor spending and set up action groups to notify or take automated action when costs exceed thresholds.

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