GPT-5.2 on Azure OpenAI

GPT-5.2 prices on Azure OpenAI for Global, Data Zone and Regional deployments, provisioned throughput (PTU) minimums and throughput, and a worked cost example.

Reference

Price per 1M tokens

USD list prices for Standard (pay per token) and Batch deployments, model version 2025-12-11.

DeploymentInputCached inputOutputBatch in / out
Globallist $1.75 $0.175 $14.00 $0.875 / $7.00
Data Zonelist $1.93 $0.193 $15.40 $0.963 / $7.70
Regional not in our data yet

Source: Azure Retail Prices API, refreshed 15 Oct 2026. Data Zone and Regional prices for eastus2. "list": price not yet confirmed by the weekly refresh; Data Zone list prices are Global + 10%. GPT-5.2 is a reasoning model: its hidden reasoning tokens are billed as output.

Provisioned throughput (PTU)

Deployment parameters from Microsoft Learn.

Global / Data Zone minimum
15 PTU, steps of 5
Regional minimum
50 PTU, steps of 50
Input tokens / min per PTU
3,400
1 output token counts as
8 input tokens
Smallest Global deployment
$3,900 / month reserved
Fully used PTU, per 1M tokens
$1.75

"Fully used" is the 1-month Global reservation divided by everything one PTU can process in a month, in normalized tokens. Real deployments are sized for peak and run below that on average.

Worked example

1M requests a month, 1,500 input and 300 output tokens each, peak 3× the average, Global deployment.

Standard (Global)$6,825
Batch$3,413
Provisioned, hourly$58,400
Provisioned, 1-month reservation$20,800
Provisioned, 1-year reservation$17,680

PTUs: peak 267,123 normalized tokens a minute → 80 PTUs, about 33% used on average.

Change the numbers in the calculator

Frequently asked questions

How much does GPT-5.2 cost on Azure OpenAI?

On a Global Standard deployment, $1.75 per million input tokens and $14.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.175 per million. Data Zone costs about 10% more and Batch about half. Prices are USD list prices.

How many PTUs does GPT-5.2 need?

At least 15 PTUs on Global or Data Zone (then steps of 5) and 50 on Regional. Each PTU handles 3,400 input tokens a minute, and one output token counts as 8 input tokens.

When is PTU cheaper than pay-as-you-go for GPT-5.2?

A fully used Global PTU on a 1-month reservation costs about $1.75 per million normalized tokens, against $1.75 per million input tokens on Standard. Real deployments are sized for peak load and run well below 100% on average, so Standard is usually cheaper unless the load is high and steady.