The last I checked, it is exactly equivalent per token to direct OpenAI model inference.
The one thing I wish for is that Azure Opus 4.5 had json structured output. Last I checked that was in "beta" and only allowed via direct Anthropic API. However, after many thousands of Opus 4.5 Azure API calls with the correct system and user prompts, not even one API call has returned invalid json.
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The last I checked, it is exactly equivalent per token to direct OpenAI model inference.
The one thing I wish for is that Azure Opus 4.5 had json structured output. Last I checked that was in "beta" and only allowed via direct Anthropic API. However, after many thousands of Opus 4.5 Azure API calls with the correct system and user prompts, not even one API call has returned invalid json.