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Azure AI Foundry

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Microsoft's unified platform for building and governing enterprise AI agents

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  • Deployment Cloud Based
  • Starting price Free
  • Free trial Not offered
  • Best for Startups, SMEs, Agencies

What is Azure AI Foundry?

Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft's unified platform for building, deploying, and governing enterprise AI applications and agents. It brings together a model catalog spanning Azure OpenAI models and partner and open-source options, Foundry Agent Service for building agents with frameworks like LangGraph or the OpenAI Agents SDK, and tools for grounding models on enterprise data.

The Foundry portal itself is free to use, and customers pay only for the underlying Azure resources they consume, such as model tokens, compute, and storage, billed at standard Azure pay-as-you-go or commitment rates. The platform includes built-in safety guardrails, identity and network controls, and observability for monitoring agents and models in production.

Key Features of Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Foundry lists 9 documented features, including Model catalog with Azure OpenAI models plus partner and open-source models, Foundry Agent Service for building and hosting AI agents and Support for multiple agent frameworks including LangGraph and OpenAI Agents SDK. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.

  • Model catalog with Azure OpenAI models plus partner and open-source models
  • Foundry Agent Service for building and hosting AI agents
  • Support for multiple agent frameworks including LangGraph and OpenAI Agents SDK
  • Built-in and custom tools, including remote MCP server support
  • Enterprise security: identity, networking, and safety guardrails
  • RAG tooling for grounding models on enterprise data
  • Model fine-tuning and evaluation tools
  • Observability and monitoring for agents and models
  • Integration with Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, and Microsoft Fabric

Azure AI Foundry Pricing

Azure AI Foundry lists 3 plans. One is free; the rest are quoted on request.

Foundry portal

Free

No charge to use the portal

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Pay only for underlying Azure resources consumed

Pay-as-you-go

Custom

Charged per resource consumed

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Model token usage, compute, and storage billed at standard Azure rates

Commitment pricing

Custom

1-3 year reserved commitments

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Can save up to 70% versus pay-as-you-go

Azure AI Foundry Specifications

Azure AI Foundry is available on web app. It offers an API and has a free plan.

Deployment
  • Cloud Based
Billing cycle
Monthly
Desktop
  • Web App
Languages
  • English
Built for
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Agencies
  • Enterprises
Support
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Tickets
  • Training
Integrations
Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric, GitHub Copilot SDK, LangGraph, and remote MCP servers
Public API
Yes
Free trial
No
Free plan
Yes
Runs in browser
Yes
Customisable
Yes
Website
azure.microsoft.com

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Azure AI Foundry FAQs

The Foundry portal itself is free to access; you pay only for the underlying Azure resources you consume, such as model tokens, compute, and storage.

The model catalog includes Azure OpenAI models hosted directly by Azure plus models from partners and the open-source community.

Yes, Foundry Agent Service lets you build prompt-based agents in the portal with no code, or hosted agents using frameworks like Agent Framework, LangGraph, or the OpenAI Agents SDK.

Compute follows Azure's standard billing models, including pay-as-you-go rates and 1- to 3-year commitment pricing that can save up to 70% versus pay-as-you-go.

Yes, it includes identity and network controls, integrated safety guardrails against unsafe outputs and prompt injection, and observability for agents and models.