Microsoft Foundry · Global AI Product Index

Name: Microsoft Foundry
Author: Microsoft

Overview

Microsoft Foundry is Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating, and deploying AI applications and agents on Azure; it was previously called Azure AI Foundry and Azure AI Studio. It provides a catalog of 11,000+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, xAI, Hugging Face, and others, along with the Foundry Agent Service, the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, serverless agent hosting, OpenTelemetry tracing, and built-in evaluators for coherence, relevance, groundedness, and safety. Governance runs through the Foundry Control Plane with Entra, Purview, and Defender integrations.

Key features

Model catalog with 11,000+ models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and others
Foundry Agent Service and the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework
Built-in evaluators for coherence, relevance, groundedness, and safety
OpenTelemetry tracing and Foundry Control Plane governance on Azure

Use cases

Building enterprise copilots and agents
Evaluating and comparing models before deployment
Governed AI deployment with Azure compliance

Pricing

Pricing is usage-based through Azure, varying by model and service; many tools have no separate platform fee.

Record details

Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.

Links, dates and provenance

Record updated: 2026-10-09
Founded: 1975
Headquarters: US
Canonical URL: https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/azure-ai-foundry/

Selection profile

Every field says where its value comes from. "Unknown" means we have not confirmed it — it does not mean the product lacks the feature.

Selection profile11 fields4 unknown

Tasks it fits: Running models yourself
Derived from the record: category "platforms".
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How you use it: Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
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Runs on: Windows
Matched on the vendor page: “SQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Managed Redis Microsoft Fabric Azure Databricks Linux virtual machines in Azure Windows Server on Azure Azure Functions Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Azure API Management Azure ”
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Where it runs: Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
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Works offline: Not recorded
The record contains no offline-operation claim.
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Official service region: Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
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Public API: Not recorded
The record does not state whether a public API exists.
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Licence: proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
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Commercial use: Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
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Interface languages: Not recorded
No vendor page read in this pass states the product's own interface languages; the key exists so the field can be answered later rather than left absent.
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Billing: Subscription Free allowance: No Subscription required: Yes
Prices are the vendor’s advertised entry price and exclude taxes; always confirm on the vendor’s own page.
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Where each value comes from

Tasks it fits: Our inference
How you use it: Our inference
Runs on: Verified 2026-10-09 azure.microsoft.com ↗
Where it runs: Our inference
Works offline: Our inference
Official service region: Our inference
Public API: Our inference
Licence: Our inference
Commercial use: Our inference
Interface languages: Unknown

Key facts and their evidence

Each fact lists the conditions it holds under, the page it was read from and the day it was checked.

Platform support: windows Verified 2026-10-09 azure.microsoft.com ↗

Applies to: As stated on azure.microsoft.com on 2026-10-09
Matched on the vendor page: “SQL Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Managed Redis Microsoft Fabric Azure Databricks Linux virtual machines in Azure Windows Server on Azure Azure Functions Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets Azure API Management Azure ”
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Frequently asked questions

Who provides Azure AI Foundry?

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft's AI development platform, part of Microsoft Azure.

Which models are in Azure AI Foundry?

Its catalog includes OpenAI models alongside open models from Meta, Mistral, and others.

What was it previously called?

Azure AI Foundry evolved from Azure AI Studio.

What does Microsoft Foundry not record?

Neither a documentation nor a pricing page is recorded for Microsoft Foundry because none could be confirmed on Microsoft's own site, and its price figures, licence terms and regional availability are not established.

Similar products

Amazon Bedrock — Managed AWS service for building applications with foundation models from multiple providers via one API.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — Google Cloud's platform for building and running AI models and agents, branded Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI).
Amazon Nova — AWS portfolio of Amazon-built foundation models and services for text, multimodal, speech, custom model building, and UI-automating agents.
Nebius — AI cloud platform for workloads from training through inference, with NVIDIA GPU instances billed per GPU-hour, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and token-based inference services.
Nscale — AI cloud provider offering GPU clusters, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and a serverless inference API compatible with OpenAI SDKs.
Baseten — Platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models as scalable APIs.

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Sources

This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.

Machine-readable record: /api/products/azure-ai-foundry.json · Spot an error? Suggest a correction

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