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Microsoft Azure AI

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Our take

Editorial by LLMap · updated Jul 31, 2026

Azure OpenAI Service is an enterprise-grade gateway to OpenAI models with strong compliance credentials and measured throughput. It offers EU-region hosting, SOC 2 attestation, and zero-retention options, but no downloadable or non-OpenAI models.

Use this for regulated workloads requiring SOC 2, zero-retention, and EU data residency. Pick it for enterprise procurement and support around OpenAI model access, or for high-throughput coding tasks where GPT-5-1-codex-mini delivers 113 tps. Skip it if you need open-weight models, if you want to compare non-OpenAI families in one catalogue, or if your budget cannot absorb the steep jump from nano tiers to mini and standard variants.

Strengths
  • Strongest compliance and data-control posture in the tracked set: SOC 2 attestation, zero-retention option, no training on prompts, and an EU-region endpoint — all four verified.
  • Highest measured throughput for coding workloads: GPT-5-1-codex-mini at 113 tps, 2.45× the throughput of GPT-5-4-mini and 16.1× that of the legacy GPT-3.5-turbo variant.
  • Lowest entry price for GPT-5-nano access among the tracked tiers.
  • Broad OpenAI model catalogue — 55 tracked offers spanning nano, mini, and standard variants across GPT-4, GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, and GPT-5 families.
Trade-offs
  • Legacy model pricing is an outlier: the older GPT-3.5-turbo variant costs 20× the nano entry cost on input and 5× on output.
  • Throughput varies dramatically within the same model: GPT-4o-mini ranges from 25 tps to 63.5 tps, GPT-4.1-nano from 38 tps to 67 tps, and GPT-4.1-mini from 46 tps to 105 tps — tier selection critically affects performance.
  • No open-weight or non-OpenAI models in tracked offers: all 55 offers are OpenAI-branded, with no Mistral, Meta, Google, or other downloadable catalogue entries.
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Privacy & data handling

Yes
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No answer on record

The colour says whether the answer favours you, not whether it is a yes — not training on your prompts earns a green cross, no zero-retention option earns a red one.

Trains on your prompts
No
Logs prompts
No
Offered
Attested

Prompt retention: none.

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Models & pricing

Claude Fable 5$10.00 / $50.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Haiku 4.5$1.00 / $5.00 /1M200K5h agoClaude Haiku 4.5$1.00 / $5.00 /1M200K4d agoClaude Opus 4.1$15.00 / $75.00 /1M200K5h agoClaude Opus 4.1$15.00 / $75.00 /1M200K4d agoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00 / $25.00 /1M200K5h agoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00 / $25.00 /1M200K4d agoClaude Opus 4.6$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M4d agoClaude Opus 4.6$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Opus 4.7$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Opus 4.7$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M4d agoClaude Opus 4.8$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Opus 4.8$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M4d agoClaude Opus 5$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Opus 5$5.00 / $25.00 /1M1M4d agoClaude Sonnet 4.5$3.00 / $15.00 /1M200K5h agoClaude Sonnet 4.6$3.00 / $15.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Sonnet 4.6$3.00 / $15.00 /1M1M4d agoClaude Sonnet 5$2.00 / $10.00 /1M1M5h agoClaude Sonnet 5$2.00 / $10.00 /1M1M4d agoGPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)$1.00 / $2.00 /1M4K5h agoGPT-4$30.00 / $60.00 /1M8K5h agoGPT-4.1$2.00 / $8.00 /1M1M5h agoGPT-4.1$2.20 / $8.80 /1M1M5h agoGPT-4.1 Mini$0.44 / $1.76 /1M1M5h agoGPT-4.1 Mini$0.40 / $1.60 /1M1M5h agoGPT-4.1 Nano$0.11 / $0.44 /1M1M5h agoGPT-4.1 Nano$0.10 / $0.40 /1M1M5h agoGPT-4o$2.50 / $10.00 /1M128K5h agoGPT-4o (2024-05-13)$5.00 / $15.00 /1M128K5h agoGPT-4o (2024-08-06)$2.50 / $10.00 /1M128K5h agoGPT-4o-mini$0.15 / $0.60 /1M128K5h agoGPT-4o-mini$0.17 / $0.66 /1M128K5h agoGPT-5.1$1.38 / $11.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.1$1.25 / $10.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.1-Codex$1.25 / $10.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.1-Codex-Max$1.25 / $10.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.1-Codex-Mini$0.25 / $2.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.2 Chat$1.75 / $14.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.2-Codex$1.75 / $14.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.3 Chat$1.75 / $14.00 /1M128K5h agoGPT-5.3-Codex$1.75 / $14.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.4$2.50 / $15.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.4$2.75 / $16.50 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.4 Mini$0.75 / $4.50 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.4 Nano$0.20 / $1.25 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.4 Pro$30.00 / $180.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.5$5.50 / $33.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.5$1.38 / $11.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.5$1.25 / $10.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5.6 Luna$1.00 / $6.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Luna$1.10 / $6.60 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Luna Pro$1.10 / $6.60 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Luna Pro$1.00 / $6.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Sol$5.00 / $30.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Sol$5.50 / $33.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Sol Pro$5.00 / $30.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Sol Pro$5.50 / $33.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Terra$2.50 / $15.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Terra$2.75 / $16.50 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Terra Pro$2.75 / $16.50 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5.6 Terra Pro$2.50 / $15.00 /1M1.1M5h agoGPT-5 Mini$0.25 / $2.00 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5 Mini$0.28 / $2.20 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5 Nano$0.050 / $0.40 /1M400K5h agoGPT-5 Nano$0.055 / $0.44 /1M400K5h agoR1 0528685B$1.49 / $5.94 /1M164K5h agoWhisper 1 API$0.006 /minute of audio5h ago
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