Azure & Cloud
September 30, 2026Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol on Azure: the $2/$10 cost math
Claude Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol reached Microsoft Foundry a day apart at the same $2/$10 list price, yet a cache-heavy 60-turn agent session costs $3.45 on Sonnet 5.5 and $2.55 on GPT-6.1 Sol, or $3.06 in the EU Data Zone that Claude still lacks. Above 272K input tokens the order flips, because GPT-6.1 Sol doubles its input rate while Sonnet 5.5 keeps flat pricing to 1M tokens and can run with no up-front reasoning.
Claude Sonnet 5.5
GPT-6.1 Sol
Anthropic
OpenAI
Microsoft Foundry
Azure
LLM Cost
Prompt Caching
Data Residency
Model Selection
By Falak Mahmood