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Azure OpenAI Service pricing

Microsoft Foundry is an Azure platform for building, grounding and governing AI apps and agents, with access to many third-party and Microsoft models.

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Visit Azure OpenAI ServicePrices checked Oct 29, 2026

How much does Azure OpenAI Service cost?

PriceNot publishedAzure OpenAI Service asks you to contact sales.
Free plan
Not stated
Free trial
Free trial available for Azure; duration not stated
Enterprise
Contact sales
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In your favor

  • Free trial. Free trial available for Azure; duration not stated

How you buy and get started

Self-serve + salesButtons on their site: Get started with Azure, Request a pricing quote, Contact Sales
Sign up
Create an Azure account
"Get started with Azure"
Setup
Not stated
When sales steps in
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Support
Azure support plans
"Get the support you need to make the most of your Azure investment."

What Azure OpenAI Service does

Microsoft Foundry brings model access, fine-tuning, model routing, an agent service and open-source agent frameworks together on Azure. Azure pricing is consumption-based with per-product price pages and a calculator; no Foundry plan prices appear on the pages provided.

Good for
Enterprises and developers building AI apps and agents on Azure who want models from multiple providers plus governance controls.
Main product
Microsoft Foundry
Also includes
Foundry Models, Foundry Agent Service, Foundry IQ, Foundry Tools, Foundry Control Plane, Model fine-tuning
Connects to
SAP, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Graph, Azure Logic Apps
Public API
Not stated
MCP server
Not stated
  • Pay-per-token pricingNot stated
  • Multiple models availableAccess over 11,000 foundational, open, reasoning, multimodal, and industry-specific models, spanning OpenAI, A
  • Fine-tuning supportTrain, fine-tune, distill, and automatically upgrade models with minimal coding.
  • Streaming responsesNot stated
  • Tool and function callingNot stated
  • SOC 2 complianceNot stated
  • No training on your dataNot stated
  • Discounted batch processingNot stated

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Security and your data

QuestionTheir answerWhere it says so
Trains AI on your data?Not stated
HIPAA (signs a BAA)Not stated
SOC 2Not stated
GDPRcompliant"We stand behind the strength of our GDPR compliance and other data protection safeguards."privacy
CCPANot stated
PCINot stated
ISO 27001Not stated
Single sign-onNot stated
Trust centerNot stated

Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.

Every plan

No prices are published on Azure OpenAI Service's pricing page.

Fine print

Billing increment
Not stated
Billed beyond usage
Not stated
Contract
Not stated
Refunds
Not stated
Auto renew
Not stated
Price change notice
Not stated

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About the company

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Questions

Is Azure OpenAI Service free?

There's no free plan. Free trial: Free trial available for Azure; duration not stated.