Azure AI services
Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications with out-of-the-box and customizable APIs and models.
Deploy trusted AI quickly with a portfolio of AI services.
Overview
Build intelligent apps with industry-leading AI
- 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, Cohere, and more.
- Enhance the safety of generative AI applications with advanced guardrails for responsible AI.
SERVICES AND MODELS
Build with customizable APIs and models
Azure AI Content Understanding
Accelerate multimodal AI solution development.
Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models
Build your own agent and generative AI applications with cutting-edge language and vision models.
Azure AI Search
Retrieve the most relevant data using keyword, vector, and hybrid search.
Azure AI Content Safety
Monitor text and images to detect offensive or inappropriate content.
Azure AI Translator
Translate documents and text in real time across more than 100 languages.
Azure AI Speech
Use industry-leading AI services such as speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech translation, and speaker recognition.
Azure AI Vision
Read text, analyze images, and detect faces with optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning.
Azure AI Language
Build conversational interfaces, summarize documents, and analyze text using prebuilt AI-powered features.
Azure AI Document Intelligence
Apply advanced machine learning to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents.
Phi open models
Build with the most capable and cost-effective small language models (SLMs) available.
Azure AI Foundry Models
Discover, evaluate, customize, and deploy AI models.
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
Azure AI Services pricing
Explore flexible, consumption-based pricing for the family of AI services. Each service supports various pricing options to fit your needs.
Find your AI solution
Discover Azure AI—a portfolio of AI services designed for developers and data scientists.
Customer stories
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Frequently asked questions
- Azure AI services is a collection of Azure products that supports investment in making easy-to-use AI. This collection includes Azure OpenAI, AI Search, AI Speech, and Content Safety, among other products and services.
- Yes, Azure Cognitive Services was the original name for this product collection. We updated the name to Azure AI services to better match our compendium of products.
- Each service has pricing that is customizable to the application or use case.
- Azure AI services 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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