Which is cheaper, Amazon Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Service?

AWS is cheaper in 3 of 4 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 83.4%.

How do Amazon Bedrock and Azure OpenAI Service compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated May 21, 2026AWSAzure

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

Azure Wins

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AWS wins 3 of 4 price comparisons, averaging 83.4% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000025/hr to $0.5000/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Amazon Bedrock workloads

Comparing Amazon Bedrock and Azure OpenAI Service across 4 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon Bedrock	Azure Azure OpenAI Service	Diff	Cheapest
Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock	$0.0001/hr USE1-gpt-oss-120b-input-tokens-flex ($0.05/mo)	$0.0000/hr gpt-4.1-nano-ft cached input global - gpt-4.1-nano-ft cached input global Tokens ($0.02/mo)	+66.7%	Tie
Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock	$0.0003/hr USE1-writer.palmyra-vision-7b-input-tokens-priority ($0.19/mo)	$0.0013/hr Grok 6 Inp regnl - 4.3 Inp Glbl Tokens ($0.91/mo)	+79.0%	AWS
Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock	$0.0006/hr USE1-moonshotai.kimi-k2.5-input-tokens ($0.44/mo)	$0.0055/hr gpt-image-1-inp-txt-rgnl - gpt 4o mini dev ft inpt glbl Tokens ($4.01/mo)	+89.1%	AWS
Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock	$0.0050/hr USE1-Nova2.0Pro-text-output-tokens-cross-region-global-batch ($3.65/mo)	$0.5000/hr Sora 2 pro high res glbl - Sora 2 pro high res glbl Second ($365.00/mo)	+99.0%	AWS