Azure AI Foundry vs Novita AI

Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Azure AI Foundry is cheaper on 0 of 15 shared models (input or output price), Novita AI on 10.

Azure AI Foundry

OpenAI models with Azure enterprise controls plus a broad third-party model catalog. The compliance-friendly way to run GPT-class models.

  • Azure compliance/enterprise controls
  • OpenAI models with SLAs
  • Provisioned throughput

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Novita AI

Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..

  • Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
  • Aggressive open-weight model pricing
  • Template marketplace for common stacks

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Shared models, priced by both

List prices refreshed 2026-08-28 ยท input $/1M tokens
Model Azure AI Foundry in/out Novita AI in/out Cheaper input
GPT-OSS 120B $0.150 / $0.600 $0.050 / $0.250 Novita AI
Mistral Nemo $0.150 / $0.150 $0.040 / $0.170 Novita AI
DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.190 / $0.510 $0.140 / $0.280 Novita AI
Llama 4 Scout $0.200 / $0.780 $0.180 / $0.590 Novita AI
Llama 3.1 8B $0.300 / $0.610 $0.020 / $0.050 Novita AI
DeepSeek V3.2 $0.580 / $1.68 $0.269 / $0.400 Novita AI
Kimi K2.5 $0.600 / $3.00 $0.600 / $3.00 tie
Llama 3.3 70B $0.710 / $0.710 $0.135 / $0.400 Novita AI
Kimi K2.6 $0.950 / $4.00 $0.800 / $3.40 Novita AI
Llama-3-70b $1.10 / $0.370 $0.510 / $0.740 Novita AI
DeepSeek V3 $1.14 / $4.56 $0.890 / $0.890 Novita AI
DeepSeek-V3.1 $1.23 / $4.94 $0.270 / $1.00 Novita AI
DeepSeek R1 $1.35 / $5.40 $4.00 / $4.00 Azure AI Foundry
Llama 4 Maverick $1.41 / $0.350 $0.270 / $0.850 Novita AI
DeepSeek V4 Pro $1.74 / $3.48 $1.60 / $3.20 Novita AI

Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.