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.
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:
- Azure AI Vision. Identify and analyze content within images and videos.
- Azure AI Custom Vision. Customize image recognition to fit your business needs.
Improve customer experiences with Azure AI Speech capabilities, including:
- Speech to text. Transcribe audible speech into readable, searchable text.
- Text to speech. Convert text to lifelike speech for more natural interfaces.
- Speech translation. Integrate real-time speech translation into your apps.
- Speaker recognition. Identify and verify the people speaking based on audio.
Understand conversations and unstructured text with Azure AI Language capabilities, including:
- Entity recognition. Identify commonly used and domain-specific terms, including PII extraction.
- Sentiment analysis. Automatically detect sentiments and opinions from social media, customer reviews and more.
- Conversational language understanding. Enable your apps to interact with users through natural language.
- Summarization. Generate summaries of documents and conversation transcripts.
- Text analytics for health. Process unstructured medical data to improve patient care.
- Question answering. Use AI to distill information into easy-to-navigate questions and answers. Supported across more than 100 languages.
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.
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:
- Azure AI Anomaly Detector. Identify potential problems early on.
- Azure AI Content Safety and Azure Content Moderator. Detect potentially offensive or unwanted content.
- Azure AI Personalizer. Create rich, personalized experiences for every user.
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
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
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Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
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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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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.
AI in sustainability
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources uses Azure AI services to automate aquatic resource monitoring, saving months of experts’ time.
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.
AI in supply chain management
Arvato is using Azure AI services to accelerate workflows in warehouses, ensuring higher throughput and lower costs.
AI in financial services
ASC is using Azure AI services for compliant documentation, analysis, translation, and risk assessment.
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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The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure AI
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Fuel Application Innovation with Cloud AI Services
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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.
Learning
Learn how to start building intelligent apps with step-by-step guidance, videos, and training.
Artificial intelligence for developers
Azure AI Virtual Training Days
Community and Azure support
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Frequently asked questions about Azure AI services
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Azure AI services are available in several regions around the world. See availability by region.
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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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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.