Observability in Foundry Control Plane pricing overview
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Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
AI evaluations (playground and safety)*
| Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $-/1M |
| Output tokens | $-/1M |
*Quality and continuous evaluations are not subject to the pricing on this page. Instead they are billed using input and output tokens (with no surcharge) for each evaluation using the model deployment that you've selected.
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Observability in Foundry Control Plane is a suite of capabilities for monitoring, tracing, evaluating, red teaming and governing AI agents and applications. It provides end-to-end visibility across the entire AI lifecycle—from prototyping and development to production—enabling teams to debug, optimise, and ensure the reliability and safety of AI agents.
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There is no charge for monitoring in Azure AI Foundry. Tracing in Azure AI Foundry requires connecting to Application Insights resource and there is no additional charge in Azure AI Foundry. Please check out pricing for Azure Monitor logs pricing here.
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Azure AI Foundry supports different kinds of evaluators including agent evaluator, risk and safety evaluators, General purpose evaluators and more. Learn more about supported evaluators here.
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Only safety, red teaming and playground evaluations are billed using the AI evaluations metre. All other cloud evaluations including quality and continuous evaluations are billed using input and output tokens (with no surcharge) with bring your own judge model deployment.
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