Regarding Azure billing during failure scenarios

Question

We are using Azure subscription with the Standard Tier.

We have a requirement to calculate the usage cost of Azure Speech to Text and Azure OpenAI in our application. We are using Azure Retail Prices API to estimate the usage cost. We have some queries regarding price calculation during failure scenarios.

Queries:

1. If a Batch transcription fails in any scenario, will the cost for the failed Azure Batch transcription be added to the Azure billing or not?
2. Also for the Azure OpenAI Completions API, if the Summary operation fails in any scenario, will the cost for the input tokens utilized be added to the Azure billing or not?

Answer 1

Hello Test Admin,

Thanks for your question.

For Azure Speech to Text, you are billed on transcription minutes. If failure occurs before transcription starts you will not be billed, if it fails after transcription you will be billed for the successful transcription minutes,

With Azure OpenAI Completions API, token usage metric captures the resources consumed up to the point of failure. The cost for the input tokens that were utilized before the failure will be billed.

See:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/speech-services/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/

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Abiola