Foundry Tools
Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications with customizable tools, APIs, and models.
Overview
Build intelligent apps with industry-leading AI tools
- Foundry Tools are ready-to-use APIs that give your agents the power to take actions on data. As a core part of Microsoft Foundry, these tools accelerate innovation and reduce complexity, so you can focus on solving real-world problems. Equip your agents with the skills they need to succeed—right out of the box.
- Quickly infuse generative AI into production workloads using studios, SDKs, and APIs.
- Gain a competitive edge by building AI apps powered by foundation models, including those from Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and Cohere.
- Enhance the safety of generative AI applications with advanced guardrails for responsible AI.
Tools
Build with Foundry Tools
Empower your business with flexible AI tools built for real-world impact.
Azure Content Understanding
Turn unstructured documents, images, and video into structured format and intelligence for downstream AI apps.
Azure Translator
Translate documents and text in real time across more than 100 languages.
Azure Speech
Use industry-leading tools to build voice agents with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech translation.
Azure Vision
Read text, analyze images, and detect faces with optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning.
Azure Language
Build conversational interfaces, summarize documents, and analyze text using prebuilt AI-powered features.
Azure Document Intelligence
Apply advanced machine learning to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents.
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
Foundry Tools pricing
Explore flexible, consumption-based pricing for Foundry Tools—a unified platform of models, agents, and tools. Each component offers tailored pricing options to meet your development and deployment needs.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Foundry Tools are Microsoft’s suite of prebuilt AI capabilities—Vision, Speech, Language, Translator, Content Understanding, and Document Intelligence—designed to help organizations quickly add advanced AI features to their apps and agents. These tools are fully managed, scalable, and part of the unified Microsoft Foundry platform, making it easier to innovate and transform business processes.
- Foundry Tools is the new name for the product collection previously known as Azure AI Services or Azure Cognitive Services.
Foundry Tools are part of the broader Foundry platform, which unifies models, agents, and tools under one developer-friendly experience. - Each service has pricing that is customizable to the application or use case.
- Foundry Tools have a lower barrier to entry and are designed for all types of users, while Azure machine learning is primarily aimed toward data scientists who are looking to design a more bespoke solution.
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