Azure AI Foundry vs Nebius
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 1 of 11 shared models (input or output price), Nebius on 6.
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
Nebius
AI cloud from the former Yandex team with H100/H200/B200 clusters in Europe and the US, plus Nebius AI Studio for per-token open-weight inference. Competitive pricing at cluster scale.
- European datacenters
- Both clusters and per-token inference
- Aggressive large-scale pricing
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Azure AI Foundry in/out | Nebius in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.150 / $0.600 | tie |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.150 / $0.150 | $0.040 / $0.120 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.190 / $0.510 | $0.140 / $0.280 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.300 / $1.20 | $0.300 / $1.20 | tie |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.710 / $0.710 | $0.130 / $0.400 | Nebius |
| 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 | $0.500 / $1.50 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek R1 | $1.35 / $5.40 | $0.800 / $2.40 | Nebius |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $1.74 / $3.48 | $1.75 / $3.50 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | $2.68 / $3.54 | $0.130 / $0.400 | Nebius |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.