Azure AI Foundry vs Mistral AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 2 of 5 shared models (input or output price), Mistral AI on 2.
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
Mistral AI
European frontier lab with strong small/medium models (and EU data processing), first-party API plus open weights you can self-host commercially..
- EU-based processing
- Open weights for self-hosting
- Strong small models
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-28 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Azure AI Foundry in/out | Mistral AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral 3 3B 2512 | $0.040 / $0.040 | $0.100 / $0.100 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Mistral-Medium | $0.400 / $2.00 | $2.70 / $8.10 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Mistral-Large-3 | $0.500 / $1.50 | $0.500 / $1.50 | tie |
| Mistral Small 4 | $1.00 / $3.00 | $0.100 / $0.300 | Mistral AI |
| Mistral Large | $4.00 / $12.00 | $0.500 / $1.50 | Mistral AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.