Azure OpenAI Alternative in India

Azure OpenAI in India: what gets complicated

Azure OpenAI gives Indian teams access to GPT and other OpenAI models, but you're buying through a global cloud SKU: Azure subscription setup, RBAC roles, resource-group quotas, and an invoice that isn't India-native. unoblox puts the same OpenAI models — plus Anthropic, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Gemma — behind one ₹-billed endpoint, with a GST tax invoice issued at each top-up from an Indian entity.

What actually changes

	Azure OpenAI	unoblox
Setup	Subscription + resource group + RBAC	Sign up, copy one API key
Models	OpenAI family only	OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Gemma
Billing	Azure invoice, international entity	GST tax invoice issued at each top-up, Indian entity
Tax	No India GST input credit	18% input-tax credit claimable
Data	Region-selectable	Account, billing and logs in India; external models are processed at their provider, self-hosted models run in India

Real ₹ pricing

Model	₹ input / 1M	₹ output / 1M
GPT-4o	₹253.07	₹1,012.28
GPT-4.1	₹202.46	₹809.82
Claude Opus	₹506.14	₹2,530.71
Claude Sonnet	₹202.46	₹1,012.28

Every rupee is paid from one prepaid wallet with a GST tax invoice at each top-up — finance reconciles one supplier instead of an Azure bill plus a separate Anthropic contract for Claude.

Drop-in replacement

# OLD (Azure OpenAI)
from openai import AzureOpenAI
client = AzureOpenAI(
    api_key="...",
    api_version="2024-08-01-preview",
    azure_endpoint="https://...openai.azure.com/"
)

# NEW (unoblox)
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
    api_key="ub-gw-...",
    base_url="https://api.unoblox.ai/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)

No SDK change — the OpenAI Python, Node, or curl client you already wrote for Azure points at https://api.unoblox.ai/v1 instead.

Why teams leave Azure OpenAI for unoblox

• No Azure account needed. Sign up in minutes — no subscription, no resource groups, no RBAC to maintain.
• One key, every model. GPT-5, GPT-4.1, Claude Opus/Sonnet, DeepSeek, Qwen — no separate contracts.
• GST invoice, not a global SKU. Claim your 18% input-tax credit on every rupee of inference spend.
• India-based company and billing. unoblox, your account data, logs and GST invoices are in India. Inference for external models (GPT, Claude, DeepSeek and others) runs at the model provider's own infrastructure outside India; only unoblox's self-hosted models run in India.
• Simple key rotation. API keys managed from the admin console, no Azure AD app registrations.

Frequently asked questions

Can I run unoblox alongside Azure while I test? Yes. Point a percentage of traffic at the unoblox endpoint, compare latency and output quality, then cut over fully once you're confident.

Does unoblox support Azure's deployment alias? No — you call model IDs directly (e.g. openai/gpt-4o). There's no custom deployment-name layer to manage, which is one less moving part.

What about vision requests? Vision works the same way as OpenAI's API — send base64 or image-URL content in the message. GPT-4o and Qwen3.8-27B both support it on unoblox.

What SLA do you offer? 99.95% uptime, with a 7-working-day refund path for extended outages. Request logs are retained 90–180 days.

Can I move back to Azure later? Yes — your code stays OpenAI-compatible throughout, so reverting is just swapping the endpoint and key back.

Get started in rupees → https://unoblox.ai/sign-in