Azure AI Foundry vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 3 of 30 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI 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
Google Vertex AI
Gemini plus 100+ models in Google Cloud's ML platform, with enterprise governance, grounding and tuning pipelines..
- Enterprise governance
- Grounding with Google Search
- Model Garden variety
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-10-08 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Azure AI Foundry in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.100 / $0.500 | $0.100 / $0.500 | tie |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Google Vertex AI |
| Mistral Nemo | $0.150 / $0.150 | $3.00 / $3.00 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Llama 4 Scout | $0.200 / $0.780 | $0.250 / $0.700 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Grok-4-1-Fast-Non-Reasoning | $0.200 / $0.500 | $0.200 / $0.500 | tie |
| Grok-4-1-Fast-Reasoning | $0.200 / $0.500 | $0.200 / $0.500 | tie |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.250 / $1.00 | $0.350 / $1.15 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Codestral 2508 | $0.300 / $0.900 | $0.200 / $0.600 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.580 / $1.68 | $0.560 / $1.68 | Google Vertex AI |
| Llama 3.3 70B | $0.710 / $0.710 | $0.720 / $0.720 | Azure AI Foundry |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $1.00 / $5.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | tie |
| Mistral Small 4 | $1.00 / $3.00 | $0.100 / $0.300 | Google Vertex AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $1.23 / $4.94 | $0.600 / $1.70 | Google Vertex AI |
| Grok 4.3 | $1.25 / $2.50 | $1.25 / $2.50 | tie |
| Grok-4-20-Reasoning | $1.25 / $2.50 | $1.25 / $2.50 | tie |
| Grok-4-20-Non-Reasoning | $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 |
| Grok 4.6 | $2.00 / $6.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 | tie |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 | tie |
| Grok 4.7 | $2.00 / $6.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 | tie |
| 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 | $4.00 / $12.00 | $2.00 / $6.00 | Google Vertex AI |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4.00 / $20.00 | $4.00 / $20.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
| Claude Opus 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 4.8 | $5.00 / $25.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.