Which is cheaper, Amazon Bedrock or Azure OpenAI Service?

AWS is cheaper in 2 of 3 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 85.5%.

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

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Jun 18, 2026AWSAzure

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

Azure Wins

Ties

AWS wins 2 of 3 price comparisons, averaging 85.5% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000025/hr to $0.008000/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Amazon Bedrock workloads

Comparing Amazon Bedrock and Azure OpenAI Service across 3 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-openai.gpt-oss-safeguard-120b-mantle-input-tokens-standard ($0.11/mo)	$0.0000/hr gpt-4.1-nano-ft cached input global - gpt-4.1-nano-ft cached input global Tokens ($0.02/mo)	+83.3%	Azure
Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock	$0.0003/hr USE1-writer.palmyra-vision-7b-input-tokens-priority ($0.19/mo)	$0.0014/hr R2 Inp DZone - V3.1 Inp DZone Tokens ($0.99/mo)	+80.7%	AWS
Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock	$0.0006/hr USE1-moonshotai.kimi-k2.5-input-tokens ($0.44/mo)	$0.0080/hr gpt img 1 mini out img glbl - gpt img 1 mini out img glbl Tokens ($5.84/mo)	+92.5%	AWS