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Azure AI services

Create intelligent applications quickly with simple APIs and customizable models

Build responsible AI solutions to deploy at market speed

Azure AI services is a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box and customizable AI tools, APIs, and models that help modernize your business processes faster.

Create intelligent tools and applications using large language models and deliver innovative solutions that automate document processing, improve customer service, understand the root cause of anomalies, extract insights from content, and more.

Preconfigured and customizable AI services for building flexible and tailored solutions that deliver real business value.

SDKs and APIs that help build generative AI into production workloads with speed, agility, and little to no coding experience.

Breakthrough AI research and responsible AI built in to protect users and reduce operational risk.

Microsoft is named a Leader in the May 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud AI Developer Services

Power your apps with large-scale AI models using Azure OpenAI Service

Power your apps with large-scale AI models using Azure OpenAI Service

Bring AI-powered cloud search to your mobile and web apps with Azure Cognitive Search

Bring AI-powered cloud search to your mobile and web apps with Azure AI Search

Use AI to identify and analyze content within images and videos using:

Improve customer experiences with Azure AI Speech capabilities, including:

Improve customer experiences with Azure AI Speech capabilities, including:
 

Understand conversations and unstructured text with Azure AI Language capabilities, including:

Understand conversations and unstructured text with Azure AI Language capabilities, including:
 

Translate content such as webpages, documents, conversations, and reviews across more than 125 languages and dialects using Azure AI Translator capabilities, including:

Translate content such as webpages, documents, conversations, and reviews across more than 125 languages and dialects using Azure AI Translator capabilities, including:

  • Text translation. Translate source text into multiple target languages in real time.
  • Document translation. Translate complex documents while preserving the structures and formats from the original documents.
  • Custom translator. Build customized models to translate domain-specific content and terminology in your style.

Azure AI Document Intelligence turns documents into usable data at a fraction of the time and cost.

Azure AI Document Intelligence turns documents into usable data at a fraction of the time and cost.
 

Create bots and connect them across channels with Azure AI Bot Service

Create bots and connect them across channels with Azure AI Bot Service

Analyze audio and video files using Azure AI Video Indexer

Analyze audio and video files using Azure AI Video Indexer

Make smarter decisions faster with Azure AI Decision capabilities, including:

Proactively monitor metrics and diagnose issues with Azure AI Metrics Advisor

Proactively monitor metrics and diagnose issues with Azure AI Metrics Advisor

Embed text reading and comprehension capabilities with Azure AI Immersive Reader

Embed text reading and comprehension capabilities with Azure AI Immersive Reader

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Build your own Azure AI solutions

Learn essential AI concepts. Get hands-on experience. Explore the latest AI products with resources specially designed for practitioners.

Explore the whole family of Azure data, AI, tools, and digital applications

Build mission-critical AI solutions responsibly and on your terms with Azure.

Microsoft Fabric

Reshape how everyone accesses, manages, and acts on data and insights by connecting every data source and analytics service together using a single, AI-powered platform.

Azure Machine Learning

Build, train, and deploy models from the cloud to the edge.

Azure App Service

Quickly create powerful cloud apps for web and mobile.

Comprehensive security and compliance, built in

  • Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.

  • We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.

Azure AI services pricing

Get started for free, then optimize costs with a pay-as-you-go consumption model. Pay only for what you need.

Get started with an Azure free account

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Start free. Get a $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 55+ other services that are always free.

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After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.

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After 12 months, you’ll keep getting 55+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.

See how customers are using Azure AI services

AI in online communities

Reddit uses prebuilt models in Azure AI services to improve the user experience on their platform.

Reddit

AI in sustainability

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources uses Azure AI services to automate aquatic resource monitoring, saving months of experts’ time.

WDNR

AI in media

Nota is using Azure AI services to help small and local news organizations remain competitive. Nota’s AI tools optimize stories for distribution and turn written pieces into engaging videos that can produce up to 10 times as much revenue as written pieces.

Nota

AI in supply chain management

Arvato is using Azure AI services to accelerate workflows in warehouses, ensuring higher throughput and lower costs.

Arvato

AI in financial services

ASC is using Azure AI services for compliant documentation, analysis, translation, and risk assessment.

ASC

AI in healthcare

San Raffaele University and Research Hospital is transforming clinical research and delivers precision medicine using Azure AI services.

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Get the latest Azure AI services news and resources

The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure AI

Learn about the potential return on investment (ROI) of deploying Azure AI in your organization. Read a 2023 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.

Fuel Application Innovation with Cloud AI Services

Learn 5 key ways your organization can get started with AI to realize value quickly in a May 2022 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting.

O'Reilly: Building Intelligent Apps with Cognitive APIs

Learn how to create apps, websites, and bots that communicate naturally with people—regardless of your data science expertise. This e-book takes a closer look at what’s behind apps that see, hear, speak, understand, and interpret needs. Start building intelligent apps with Azure AI services and the guidance in this e-book.

Azure AI services resources, training, and documentation

Documentation and blogs

Get up and running with Azure AI services by exploring these introductory resources.

Documentation

Azure AI services in containers

Azure AI services blog

Azure AI services blog for developers

Community and Azure support

Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and Azure community experts.

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Frequently asked questions about Azure AI services

  • Azure AI services are available in several regions around the world. See availability by region.

  • We guarantee that Azure AI services will be available at least 99.9 percent of the time. No SLA is provided for the Free tier. Read the Azure SLA.

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    See the compliance and privacy page for details.

     

  • Yes. Domain experts who want to build AI apps in a low-code environment can use Power Apps, which can be implemented without developer or data science expertise.

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