Azure OpenAI Service pricing overview
Leverage large-scale, generative AI models using Azure OpenAI Service. Optimize costs with a pay-as-you-go consumption model, and a price per unit for each model.
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Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Pricing details:
Language models
Models | Per 1,000 tokens |
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Standard | |
Text-Ada | $- |
Text-Babbage | $- |
Text-Curie | $- |
Text-Davinci | $- |
Code-Cushman | $- |
Code-Davinci | $- |
ChatGPT (gpt-3.5-turbo) | $- |
GPT-4 | Prompt (Per 1,000 tokens) | Completion (Per 1,000 tokens) |
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8K context | $- | $- |
32K context | $- | $- |
Image models
Models | Per 100 images |
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Standard | |
Dall-E | $- |
Fine-tuned models
Models | Per 1,000 tokens |
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Standard | |
Text-Ada | $- |
Text-Babbage | $- |
Text-Curie | $- |
Text-Davinci | $- |
Code-Cushman | $- |
Models | Training per compute hour |
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Standard | |
Text-Ada | $- |
Text-Babbage | $- |
Text-Curie | $- |
Text-Davinci | $- |
Code-Cushman | $- |
Models | Hosting per hour |
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Standard | |
Text-Ada | $- |
Text-Babbage | $- |
Text-Curie | $- |
Text-Davinci | $- |
Code-Cushman | $- |
Embedding models
Models | Per 1,000 tokens |
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Standard | |
Ada | $- |
Babbage | $- |
Curie | $- |
Davinci | $- |
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Frequently asked questions
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Pricing will be based on the pay-as-you-go consumption model with a price per unit for each model, which is similar to other Azure Cognitive Services pricing models.
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Example #1
You spend a few days iterating with prompts, for various use cases using each of the base models for text. Here is an example of the charges you will have incurred:
Model Used Total tokens processed (in thousands) Price per 1k tokens Total charges text-davinci-002 1,123 $0.02 $22.46 text-curie-001 3,987 $0.002 $7.974 Total $30.434 Example #2
You now fine-tune a Curie model with your data, deploy the model and make 14.5M tokens over a 5-day period. You leave the model deployed for the full five days (120 hours) before you delete the endpoint. Here are the charges you will have incurred:
Model Used Training time for the model Total tokens processed (in thousands) Price per 1k tokens Number of hours deployed Price per hour Total charges Fine-tuned Curie 30 min 14,500 $0.002 120 $0.24 $69.8
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