Moderate to move
Azure OpenAI on Hetzner: what it becomes and what it costs.
On Hetzner, Azure OpenAI becomes OpenAI / Anthropic APIs directly, or open models on GPU Hetzner dedicated servers. Same models from the vendor directly; only the SDK and auth change.
Effort grade
Moderate
Same software, self-hosted: you patch, back up and fix it
Cost after the move, before engineer time
100% of today
Vendor pass-through at the same list price, 100%.
Engineer time
none added
Priced from usage; it runs on the servers already counted.
Your own Azure OpenAI line, from your export
Drop one month of your Azure cost export and the report prices every service, Azure OpenAI included, on Hetzner list prices of 17 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.