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Azure OpenAIvsOpenAI API
OpenAI models hosted on Azure with enterprise compliance and SLAs versus GPT-5 era models, embeddings, and Responses API from OpenAI
Compare interactively in Explore →Choose Azure OpenAI when…
- •enterprise on Azure with compliance and data residency requirements
- •need GPT-4o with Azure AD auth and VNet integration
- •want OpenAI models with enterprise SLAs and support
Choose OpenAI API when…
- •You need the broadest ecosystem and most integrations
- •GPT-4 or o-series reasoning models are required
- •Assistants API, fine-tuning, or batch API are needed
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Azure OpenAI
OpenAI API
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LLM Infrastructure
LLM Infrastructure
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Free Tier
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Pricing Plans
Pay-as-you-go: Per tokenProvisioned: Reserved capacity
API: Per token
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Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI Service provides access to GPT-4o, o1, and other OpenAI models hosted within Microsoft Azure, offering enterprise-grade SLAs, data privacy guarantees, and compliance certifications. It's the default choice for enterprises on Azure that need OpenAI models.
OpenAI API
API access to GPT-5, GPT-5.5, o3/o4 reasoning models, and the Responses API; plus embeddings, image, audio, and Realtime endpoints. The most widely deployed LLM API in production.
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