Azure

US · cloud

Azure AI Foundry, with regional data residency and enterprise agreements.

OpenAI-compatible

Azure alternatives

Other services in the same category. These are genuine substitutes - services in a different category solve a different problem.

Amazon Bedrock

AWS's managed multi-vendor model service with private VPC access.

Databricks

Model serving sitting next to the customer's own lakehouse data.

Google

Google Cloud's enterprise surface for Gemini and partner models.

Google AI Studio

The direct Gemini API, with a genuinely usable free tier.

Yes. Azure accepts the OpenAI chat-completions request shape, so most SDKs work by changing the base URL and API key.

Not currently. Azure bills from the first request.

Per token, plus provisioned units Margin over the underlying model price: none - list price.