Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service
Apply large language models and generative AI to a variety of use cases.
Power your apps with large-scale AI models
Take advantage of large-scale, generative AI models with deep understandings of language and code to enable new reasoning and comprehension capabilities for building cutting-edge applications. Apply these coding and language models to a variety of use cases, such as writing assistance, code generation, and reasoning over data. Detect and mitigate harmful use with built-in responsible AI and access enterprise-grade Azure security.
Large, pretrained AI models to unlock new scenarios
Custom AI models fine-tuned with your data and hyperparameters
Built-in features to help ensure you’re using AI responsibly
Enterprise-grade security with role-based access control (RBAC) and private networks
Deliver results for new AI use cases
Gain access to generative models that have been pretrained with trillions of words. Apply them to new scenarios including language, code, reasoning, inferencing, and comprehension.
Adapt AI models to your specifications
Customize generative models with labeled data for your specific scenario using a simple REST API. Fine-tune your model's hyperparameters to increase accuracy of outputs. Use the few-shot learning capability to provide the API with examples and achieve more relevant results.
Apply AI responsibly
Filter and moderate the content of your users' requests and responses to ensure that coding and language AI models are used responsibly, for their intended purpose.
Help secure your mission-critical workloads
Azure OpenAI Service runs on the Azure global infrastructure to meet your production needs, such as critical enterprise security, compliance, and regional availability. Make your deployment more secure and trusted with role-based authentication and private network connectivity. Train your AI model with full control of your data.
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.
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Flexible consumption-based pricing
Pricing for Azure OpenAI Service is based on a pay-as-you-go consumption model with a price per unit for each model.
Get started with an Azure free account
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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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Customers are innovating with Azure OpenAI Service
Solving business needs with GPT-3 on Power PlatformThe Microsoft Power Platform team realized that GPT-3's ability to generate code from conversational language could make the code more straightforward for a wider set of users.
Access an AI pair programmer with GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot draws context from the code you're working on and suggests whole lines or entire functions. As you type, it adapts to the way you write code to help you complete your work faster.
CarMax turns customer reviews into custom content
CarMax used powerful GPT-3 AI language models to unlock new use cases, such as generating summarized content from customers reviews, which allows shoppers to quickly and easily read information about cars they're considering purchasing.
Kepro improves medical record review accuracy with AI
"OpenAI enables reviewers to make data-driven decisions about patient care... Kepro expects to reduce clinical review time by up to 30 percent."
Sean Harrison, Chief Product Officer, Kepro
Azure OpenAI Service resources and documentation
Get started
Learn more about Azure OpenAI models
Browse the documentation
Take the Introduction to Azure OpenAI course
Watch the Microsoft Mechanics video
Customize the service
Explore the playground and customization in Azure OpenAI Studio. No programming required.
Engage the Azure community
Get answers to technical questions on Microsoft Q&A
Submit product feedback and ideas
Frequently asked questions about Azure OpenAI Service
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Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available, but the service still currently requires registration, and Microsoft may limit access based on availability and eligibility criteria. Apply now.
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Pricing is based on a pay-as-you-go consumption model with a price per unit for each model. See Azure OpenAI Service pricing.
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There are several factors we’re using to evaluate and approve submitted use cases, which include, but aren’t limited to:
- Responsible use of the service—using the models as they’re intended to be used.
- Capacity—ensuring that we’re able to adequately onboard and provide service to customers.
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The early-stage nature of the technology may result in unexpected and non-ideal behaviors. We limit access to the service to promote responsible use and limit the impact of high-risk use cases.
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Azure OpenAI Service brings together OpenAI API and Azure enterprise-level security, compliance, and regional availability.
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There are several ways that Microsoft is ensuring responsible use, including:
Tools and guidance: Azure OpenAI Service offers tools to empower customers with the ability to moderate generated content and guidance and implementation best practices to help customers design their applications, while keeping safety front and center.
Limited access: The service is currently available by limited access. This will ensure that early collaborations ensure the responsible AI safeguards are working in practice.
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Azure OpenAI Service provides access to GPT-3, Codex, and Embeddings models. Dall·E 2 is available to invited customers. Learn more about the models.
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We guarantee that Azure OpenAI Service will be available at least 99.9 percent of the time. See SLA details.