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- Innovate faster using more than 11,000+ models packed for out-of-the-box-use and shared computer resources.
- Easily integrate AI models into your applications without having to provision or manage infrastructure.
- Analyze model metrics with standard datasets. Deploy model router to optimize costs and performance at runtime.
- Easily switch models and compare performance with the Azure AI model inference API.
MODELS
Choose from more than 11,000+ models
Foundry Models offer a rich and diverse collection of models designed to meet every enterprise AI need.
OpenAI
Foundation models that exceed benchmark performance across image, video, and text.
Anthropic
Anthropic models are designed to deliver high-quality reasoning, summarization, and dialogue capabilities for enterprise use.
Cohere
A leading large language model for retrieval-augmented generation capabilities.
Meta
Pre-trained, open language models ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters.
Mistral AI
Accelerate AI innovation and achieve state-of-the-art reasoning performance.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek is a Chinese artificial intelligence company that trains models at a significantly lower cost. DeepSeek R1 is now available on Foundry and GitHub.
xAI
Supercharge enterprise AI with deep reasoning, domain expertise, and blazing-fast scalability with Grok.
Black Forest Labs
Harness the power of industry-leading image generation capabilities with the Flux family of models.
Nixtla
Pre-trained, generative AI transformer models for time-series analysis.
Bria
Bria is the developer of Visual Generative AI solutions designed for commercial use across business, product, and technology departments.
NTT Data
A high-performance, lightweight Japanese and English SLM with fine-tuning for secure hybrid deployment.
Core42, a G42 company
Leading Arabic language model JAIS accelerates the growth of a vibrant Arabic language AI ecosystem.
NVIDIA NIM Microservices
NVIDIA NIM is a set of easy-to-use microservices designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI across enterprises.
Stability AI
Deliver exceptional text-to-image generation with superior quality and prompt adherence.
Phi
Small language models for building generative AI applications with better latency and lower costs.
Hugging Face
Thousands of models spanning categories from text generation to image analysis.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Flexible pricing options
Microsoft Foundry offers a range of flagship models—including Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Meta, Mistral AI, DeepSeek, xAI, Cohere, HuggingFace, NVIDIA, and more—available through serverless pay-as-you-go or managed compute offerings.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Foundry Models is a hub for discovering foundation models. The catalog includes some of the most popular large language and vision foundation models curated by Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, DeepSeek, xAI, Hugging Face, Meta, Mistral AI, Cohere, Deci, Stability AI, Nixtla, and NVIDIA. These models are packaged for out-of-the-box implementation and optimized for use in Foundry.
- Serverless API, or MaaS, is a deployment type that allows developers to access and use a variety of models hosted on Azure without having to provision GPUs or manage back-end operations. MaaS offers inference APIs and hosted fine-tuning for models such as Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama2, Meta Llama 3, and Mistral Large, among others.
- Serverless API charges are based on the number of tokens used for inference and the amount of data used for fine-tuning. The pricing also depends on the model and the region. To see the price for individual models, search for the model in Azure Marketplace.
- Today, there are Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral AI, Cohere, Core42 JAIS, Nixtla, Stability, DeepSeek, BFL, Bria AI and xAI Grok models.
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