Azure OpenAI video APIs - verified October 18, 2026

Azure OpenAI video generation API pricing

Microsoft Azure (Foundry): 1 video model with 1 pricing row, priced per second of video, read from the provider's own pages on October 18, 2026. 1 model is retiring or retired: sora-2 (retired 2026-10-15).

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Models: 1
Pricing rows: 1
Active: 0
Retiring or retired: 1

Retired or retiring

Shut down, past the provider's own retirement date, or scheduled to shut down within six months. Dates are cross-checked against our deprecations tracker.

Sora 2 (Azure OpenAI in Foundry), version 2025-12-08

sora-2

Retired 2026-10-15

Deprecations tracker: shutdown 2026-10-15. Preview version; retirement date has passed. See the row

Prices (provider's own wording)

$0.10
Price per second
Per second - 720x1280 or 1280x720
Sora 2 Global, 720x1280 or 1280x720
“| Sora 2 Global | Portrait: 720x1280<br> Landscape: 1280x720 | $0.10 |”
azure.microsoft.com
“| Model | Size: Output Resolution | Price per second |”
Context - azure.microsoft.com

Status: retired (per retirement schedule; pricing page still lists it)
“| sora-2 | 2025-12-08 | Preview | 2026-10-15 |”
learn.microsoft.com
Max duration: Not stated
Resolutions: 720x1280 (portrait), 1280x720 (landscape)
“Portrait: 720x1280<br> Landscape: 1280x720”
azure.microsoft.com
Audio: Not stated
Image-to-video: Not stated
Video-to-video: Not stated
Aspect ratios: Not stated

The legacy "Sora" table on the same pricing page shows N/A in every cell with "Pricing is not available in the selected region".

Cross-checks

Legacy Sora table on the pricing page
“Pricing is not available in the selected region”
azure.microsoft.com

FAQ

How much does Azure OpenAI video generation cost?

Sora 2 (Azure OpenAI in Foundry), version 2025-12-08: $0.10, per second, for Sora 2 Global, 720x1280 or 1280x720. Each is the first generation price the provider lists for the model, in its own unit, as of October 18, 2026; the model cards list every resolution and option.

Which Azure OpenAI video models are retiring or retired?

sora-2: retired 2026-10-15.

Sources

Verified 2026-10-18 from each provider's own pricing pages and video model docs; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. Prices are shown in the provider's own unit and never converted between units. Retirement dates are cross-checked against our deprecations tracker. Prices change without notice; check the linked source before you commit a budget to one.

5 of 5 quotes on this page matched the source pages that day.

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