It’s never been easier to build, optimize, and govern AI apps and agents that understand your business context and deliver business impact. Our unified, interoperable AI platform enables developers to build faster and smarter, while organizations gain fleetwide security and governance in a unified portal.
Foundry Overview
The AI app and agent factory
Accelerate innovation with a complete, integrated, and interoperable AI platform.
USE CASES
Discover templates for popular use cases
Get started quickly with AI solution templates that help you code AI right into your apps. Access customizable code samples and pre-integrated Azure services on GitHub to automate workflows, analyze data, modernize your code, and more.
PRICING
Flexible, consumption-based pricing
Foundry pricing is based on the individual services and features you access and use. Each service has its own billing model and price.
Built-in security and compliance
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Foundry is used by developers at more than 80,000 enterprises and digital natives, including 80% of Fortune 500 companies.
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Daily enterprise search queries
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Foundry Models to choose from—see why Microsoft Phi on Foundry Models has over 60 million downloads.
INTEGRATIONS
Take advantage of the Microsoft ecosystem
Our deep integrations help you streamline AI development and governance with less context-switching and operational overhead.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Innovative companies create with Foundry
Organizations across every industry are transforming with Foundry, turning AI into real business outcomes.
RESOURCES
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) is an interoperable AI platform that enables developers to build faster and smarter, while organizations gain fleetwide security and governance in a unified portal. It’s never been easier to build, deploy, and scale AI apps and agents that understand your business context and deliver business impact.
- Foundry is for any organization that builds and scales AI solutions, including start-ups, independent software vendors, AI development teams, data science and machine learning groups, data engineers, IT administrators, and security professionals.
- Foundry is comprised of everything you need to get started quickly and adopt AI with confidence. Natively integrated services include:
Foundry Models, Foundry Agent Service, Foundry Tools, Foundry IQ (our evolution of Azure AI Search), Azure Machine Learning, Foundry Control Plane, Foundry Local.
Additional Azure application services and Microsoft knowledge sources are made accessible via Foundry, including:
Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, OneLake in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Managed Redis, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Management, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Monitor.
In addition, Foundry supports integration with open protocols and frameworks, third-party knowledge sources, custom tools, and models. - Foundry supports a wide range of application patterns and provides customizable quick start templates for popular AI use cases as designated by our customers. Customers can build anything they imagine from simple Q&A chatbots to complex, autonomous, multi-agent workflows, digital agents, RPA-like automation, and AI microservices.
- You do not need an Azure account to explore Foundry. However, before you can start building agents, you will need an Azure subscription.
- Begin your discover of Foundry at ai.azure.com.
Next steps
Choose the Azure account that is right for you
Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.
AI development tools
Design and manage AI applications
Create, customize, and scale AI apps and agents efficiently.
AI templates
Discover AI templates for popular use cases
Build and ship faster with solution templates that help you code AI right into your apps. Access customizable code samples and pre-integrated Azure services on GitHub.