Machine learning and artificial intelligence are awesome, and Azure makes them affordable and scalable, but there's still some things you should know to understand and plan for your pricing needs using machine learning and AI on Azure.

Let's take a look at the pricing components of Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and the newer OpenAI offerings that are now part of Azure as well. We'll discuss some common costs you can anticipate and potentially mitigate and using Azure Cost Management to discover the services costing you the most money each month.