GenAI
Generative AI platform alternatives: managed, direct API or self-hosted
Each page here takes one managed AI service or vendor product and sets out what its publisher states about price, data use, model lifecycle and exit, next to the direct model APIs and the option of running an open-weight model yourself. Every fact links to its source and carries the date it was read; model prices move often, so the date matters more here than anywhere else in the library.
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Amazon Bedrock
AWS Bedrock alternatives: other managed clouds, direct model APIs or a self-hosted LLM
What Amazon Bedrock publishes about prices, data use and model retirement, next to Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, direct model APIs and a self-hosted LLM.
Facts checked: Sep 23, 2026
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Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI alternative: when the retirement clock and the PTU bill decide for you
Azure OpenAI: GPT-5.6-terra at $2.00 and $12.00 per million short-context tokens, PTUs by the hour, models retired after 18 months, three alternatives.
Facts checked: Sep 23, 2026
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Amazon Textract
AWS Textract alternative: rent another OCR API or own the document pipeline
Amazon Textract: $0.0015 a page for text, $0.05 for forms. Data terms, regions and languages next to Google Document AI, Azure and your own pipeline.
Facts checked: Sep 23, 2026
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Fin
Fin (formerly Intercom) alternatives: what the Salesforce deal changes
Fin (formerly Intercom) joined Salesforce on 10 September 2026. What the $0.99 outcome price counts, what Intercom seats cost, when an own agent pays off.
Facts checked: Sep 23, 2026
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