Azure AI Foundry vs Baseten
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 0 of 10 shared models (input or output price), Baseten on 4.
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
Baseten
Production inference platform with Truss packaging, optimized serving engines and enterprise-grade autoscaling. Strong for teams shipping custom models with SLAs.
- Optimized model serving (TensorRT-LLM)
- Enterprise autoscaling and observability
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Azure AI Foundry in/out | Baseten in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.100 / $0.500 | Baseten |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.190 / $0.510 | $0.130 / $0.260 | Baseten |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| Kimi K2.5 | $0.600 / $3.00 | $0.600 / $3.00 | tie |
| Kimi K2 Thinking | $0.600 / $2.50 | $0.600 / $2.50 | tie |
| Kimi K2.6 | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.950 / $4.00 | tie |
| Kimi K2.7 Code | $0.950 / $4.00 | $0.950 / $4.00 | tie |
| DeepSeek V3 | $1.14 / $4.56 | $0.770 / $0.770 | Baseten |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $1.23 / $4.94 | $0.500 / $1.50 | Baseten |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.74 / $3.48 | $1.74 / $3.48 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.