Azure OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Now $0.15/M Input — Best Value Enterprise LLM on Azure

Azure OpenAI GPT-4o Mini reduced to $0.15/M input, $0.60/M output tokens — 83% cheaper than GPT-4o ($2.50/$10). Performance: matches GPT-4o on simple tasks, 70% of quality on complex reasoning.

TCOIQ: Route 70-80% of LLM tasks to GPT-4o Mini — classification, extraction, summarisation, RAG retrieval. Reserve GPT-4o for complex reasoning only. This model tiering approach reduces LLM costs by 60-70% for most enterprise applications.