OVERVIEW
Get enterprise AI without enterprise complexity
- Discover and evaluate foundation, open, task, and industry models for your use case and integrate into your code with a unified API.
- Orchestrate production-ready agents. Customize models with retrieval augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, and distillation.
- Continuously monitor and optimize AI performance with configurable evaluations, safety filters, resource and security controls.
USE CASES AND FEATURES
Enhance customer experiences with AI
Create intelligent applications with Azure AI Foundry.
Get started with AI chat
Create and deploy basic Azure container chat applications integrated with your data and telemetry insights.
Get started with AI agents
Create and deploy basic Azure container agent applications with agentic actions and telemetry insights.
Generate documents from your data
Quickly generate contracts, invoices, and investment proposals by finding and summarizing relevant information from your data.
Build a conversational agent
Use advanced conversational understanding to build deterministic and controllable chatbots and AI assistants.
Improve client meetings with agents
Save time and prepare relevant discussion topics for scheduled client meetings.
Multimodal content processing
Process claims, invoices, contracts, and other text, images, tables, and graph content quickly and accurately.
Deploy AI applications in production
Deploy a secure, extensible, integrated environment to run your AI applications in production.
Unlock insights from conversational data
Improve contact center efficiency by uncovering insights from large audio and text-based datasets using advanced content understanding capabilities.
Modernize your code with agents
Migrate legacy code to modern languages using a team of agents.
Multi-agent workflow automation
Enhance task planning and automation by orchestrating and managing a group of AI agents.
Incorporate multiple models and data sources
Mix and match models with your diverse datasets to innovate and differentiate your AI solutions.
Customize models
Orchestrate prompts, add retrieval augmented generation (RAG), enable distillation, and fine-tune models.
Enhance with agents
Use Azure AI Foundry Agents, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen to transform your applications with workflows that respond to events, support reasoning, and perform autonomous tasks.
Support cloud and edge deployment
Run AI apps anywhere with Azure, Azure Arc, and Foundry Local.
Securely govern
Implement network isolation, identity and access controls, and data encryption for secure, compliant AI operations.
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, consumption-based pricing
Azure AI Foundry pricing is based on the individual services and features you access and use from the platform. Each service and feature has its own billing model and price.
Services
Azure AI Foundry services
Azure AI Foundry API and SDK
Streamline the AI development lifecycle with an integrated library of SDKs and APIs.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Customers are innovating with Azure AI Foundry
RESOURCES
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Azure AI Foundry is a flexible, secure, enterprise-grade AI platform that empowers enterprises, start-ups, and software development companies to bring AI apps and agents to production fast. Access a comprehensive catalog of models, agents, and tools to unlock your data and create innovative apps and experiences. Use developer tools you already know - GitHub, Visual Studio, and Copilot Studio - to build powerful solutions that can optimize call center performance, analyze data, improve product discovery, validate code, automate workflows, and more. Access Azure AI Foundry through a developer-friendly portal, unified SDK and API. Ship faster with quick-start templates. Deploy models to run from the cloud or local devices. Experiment with continuous feedback loops. Scale to deliver agents that optimize workflows with confidence. Easily manage all of your workloads in one place.
- Choose from over 11,000 foundational, open, task, and industry-specific models, including models from OpenAI, Microsoft, DeepSeek, xAI, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, Meta, Cohere, NVIDIA, and more. Modes span text, image, and audio tasks - support retrieval, summarization, classification, generation, reasoning, and multimodal use cases.
- Azure AI Foundry is generally available at ai.azure.com. Download the Azure AI Foundry SDK at aka.ms/aifoundrysdk.
- Azure AI Foundry Labs is a hub for developers, startups, and enterprises to explore groundbreaking innovations from research at Microsoft, including Muse, Aurora, ExACT, Magentic-One, MatterSim, OmniParser, TamGen, and other projects.
- The Azure AI Foundry platform is free to use and explore. Individual features customers access and consume are billed at their normal rates.
- You do not need an Azure account to explore Azure AI Foundry. However, before you can start building agents, you will need an Azure subscription.
- Each service and product available in Azure AI Foundry has its own billing model and price.
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