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Microsoft prices MAI-Voice-2-Flash at $15 per 1M characters and MAI-Transcribe-1.5 at $6 per 1,000 minutes. OpenAI's gpt-realtime-2.1 bills $32 in and $64 out per 1M audio tokens. Different units, very different bills
Manu Shukla 
The Azure OpenAI Assistants API stops working on August 26, 2026. Here is the migration to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service: the SDK change, threads to conversations, runs to responses, and which tools carry over.
Manu Shukla 
Microsoft put Mistral's open-weight Medium 3.5 into Foundry and Azure Local on July 21, 2026, from cloud to fully disconnected. How regulated enterprises should choose a deployment mode, and what control really buys.
Manu Shukla 
Claude reached general availability in Microsoft Foundry in late June 2026, billed in Claude Consumption Units where 100 CCU equals $1. How CCU conversion works and what it changes for your Azure bill.
Manu Shukla 