Azure AI Foundry vs Replicate
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 3 of 19 shared models (input or output price), Replicate on 3.
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
Replicate
Run thousands of community models (LLMs, image, audio, video) behind one API with per-second GPU billing: the fastest path from 'found a model on GitHub' to production endpoint..
- Massive community model zoo
- Per-second billing, scale to zero
- Custom models via Cog
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Azure AI Foundry in/out | Replicate in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5 Nano | $0.050 / $0.400 | $0.050 / $0.400 | tie |
| GPT-4.1 Nano | $0.100 / $0.400 | $0.100 / $0.400 | tie |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.180 / $0.720 | Azure AI Foundry |
| GPT-4o-Mini | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.150 / $0.600 | tie |
| GPT-5 Mini | $0.250 / $2.00 | $0.250 / $2.00 | tie |
| GPT-4.1 Mini | $0.400 / $1.60 | $0.400 / $1.60 | tie |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| Llama-3-70b | $1.10 / $0.370 | $0.650 / $2.75 | Replicate |
| o4 Mini | $1.10 / $4.40 | $1.00 / $4.00 | Replicate |
| DeepSeek V3 | $1.14 / $4.56 | $1.45 / $1.45 | Azure AI Foundry |
| O1-Mini | $1.21 / $4.84 | $1.10 / $4.40 | Replicate |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $1.23 / $4.94 | $0.672 / $2.02 | Replicate |
| GPT-5 | $1.25 / $10.00 | $1.25 / $10.00 | tie |
| DeepSeek R1 | $1.35 / $5.40 | $3.75 / $10.00 | Azure AI Foundry |
| GPT-4.1 | $2.00 / $8.00 | $2.00 / $8.00 | tie |
| GPT-4o | $2.50 / $10.00 | $2.50 / $10.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Grok-4 | $3.00 / $15.00 | $7.20 / $36.00 | Azure AI Foundry |
| O1 | $15.00 / $60.00 | $15.00 / $60.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.