AWS Bedrock vs Azure AI Foundry
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: AWS Bedrock is cheaper on 2 of 24 shared models (input or output price), Azure AI Foundry on 5.
AWS Bedrock
Claude, Llama, Mistral, Nova and more inside AWS with IAM, VPC and compliance controls. The default when your stack already lives on AWS.
- Enterprise IAM/VPC integration
- Multiple model families
- Provisioned throughput options
Azure AI Foundry
OpenAI models with Azure enterprise controls plus a broad third-party model catalog. The compliance-friendly way to run GPT-class models.
- Azure compliance/enterprise controls
- OpenAI models with SLAs
- Provisioned throughput
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | AWS Bedrock in/out | Azure AI Foundry in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.150 / $0.600 | tie |
| GPT-5.6 Luna | $0.220 / $1.32 | $0.200 / $1.20 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Jamba-Instruct | $0.500 / $0.700 | $0.500 / $0.700 | tie |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.580 / $1.68 | $1.14 / $4.56 | AWS Bedrock |
| Kimi K2.5 | $0.600 / $3.03 | $0.600 / $3.00 | tie |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.620 / $1.85 | $0.580 / $1.68 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| Mistral Small 4 | $1.00 / $3.00 | $1.00 / $3.00 | tie |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 / $2.50 | $1.25 / $2.50 | tie |
| DeepSeek R1 | $1.35 / $5.40 | $1.35 / $5.40 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 | tie |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | $2.20 / $13.20 | $2.00 / $12.00 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Mistral Large | $3.00 / $9.00 | $4.00 / $12.00 | AWS Bedrock |
| Command-R-Plus | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 5 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.8 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| GPT-5.6 Sol | $5.50 / $33.00 | $5.00 / $30.00 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Claude Fable 5 | $10.00 / $50.00 | $10.00 / $50.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | $15.00 / $75.00 | $15.00 / $75.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.