Discrepency in Azure AI Vision Pricing Selection

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Seeing Standard S0 is normal. The multi-service Azure AI services resource has SKUs F0 (Free) and S0 (Standard) at the resource level. The pricing table you’re looking at is the feature/meter naming used for Vision/Image Analysis itself.

So you create an S0 multi-service resource, and inside it you’re billed on the Vision meters (which show up as Standard (S1) on the pricing page).

It’s just two different naming conventions for resource vs meter.

Why you don’t see F0 in the dropdown?

Simply because the Free tier is either not available in that region/subscription type, or you’ve already used up your account free-tier quota. If you want F0, try another region or a subscription that still has F0 capacity.

To use multimodal embeddings via API you don’t need to deploy Azure Storage since you can send:

• image by URL or bytes
• text directly in the request body.

Storage/Blob is only useful for batch workflows or if you want to host images yourself.

After the resource is created, use the Vision/Image Analysis multimodal embeddings endpoint with your resource endpoint/key. No extra deployments are needed.