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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.
Please see Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools service quotas and limits page for additional information.
Content Extraction
| File Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Document: Standard | $- per 1,000 pages |
| Audio | $- per hour |
| Video | $- per hour |
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Video: Add-on Face Grouping Note: available in preview only |
$- per hour |
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Face Note: available in preview only |
$- per 1,000 transactions |
Field Extraction
Field extraction incurs cost from both the Azure OpenAI model and the embedding model.
When using Content Understanding, charges apply to:
- Azure OpenAI model usage
- Content extraction and contextualization meters
For details on how field extraction tokens are calculated, see product documentation.
Contextualization
For details on how contextualization tokens are calculated learn more here.
| Feature | Price (per 1M tokens) |
|---|---|
| Standard | $- |
Contextualization tokens are calculated per unit of file content:
| Units | Contextualization Tokens | Effective Standard Price per unit |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Page | 1,000 contextualization tokens | $- per 1,000 pages |
| 1 Image | 1,000 contextualization tokens | $- per 1,000 images |
| 1 hour audio | 100,000 contextualization tokens | $- per 10 hours |
| 1 hour video | 1,000,000 contextualization tokens | $- per hour |
Assuming $- per 1 million contextualization tokens.
API Version 2025-05-01-Preview (Preview only)
| Feature | Price |
|---|---|
| Content Extraction: Document | $- per 1,000 pages |
| Standard Field Extraction: Input | $- |
| Standard Field Extraction: Output | $- |
| Pro Field Extraction: Input | $- per 1M tokens |
| Pro Field Extraction: Output | $- per 1M tokens |
| Pro Contextualization | $- per 1M tokens |
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Frequently asked questions
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Content Understanding bills for both input (content extraction with optional addons) and output (scheme inference).
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Content Understanding is billed by the amount of content analyzed. The unit of content depends on the modality. Document modality analyzes the content per page as determined by the document pagination. A page is limited to 3K characters for non-paginated documents. Image modality analyzes the content per image file. Audio and Video modalities analyze the content per hour (billed per minute).
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Content Understanding does not have a monthly/yearly subscription.
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Content Understanding is initially available in West US, Central Sweden, and East Australia regions.
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Content Understanding is in public preview and does not have an SLA.
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