Azure AI Foundry
Overview
A comprehensive platform for building, customizing, and managing AI applications and agents at scale.
Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft's all-in-one platform designed to simplify the development, deployment, and management of AI applications and agents. It offers a rich set of AI capabilities and tools through a unified portal, SDKs, and APIs, facilitating secure data integration, model customization, and enterprise-grade governance. Developers can explore a diverse model catalog, including foundation, open-source, industry-specific, and task-based AI models, to build transformative AI solutions efficiently.
Product overview
Capabilities, pricing and fit
Azure AI Foundry is now documented as Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft's managed platform for building, deploying, evaluating, monitoring, and governing AI applications and agents. It is infrastructure and an agent-development platform, not a single agent, and supports both configuration-only prompt agents and code-based hosted agents.
Information as of August 23, 2026
What it can do
- Multiple agent development paths
Teams can create prompt agents managed by Foundry or deploy code-based hosted agents built with supported frameworks or custom code.[2]
- Unified model and agent APIs
The Foundry API provides a common contract across model providers, with SDKs for Python, C#, JavaScript or TypeScript, and Java.[1]
- Deployment, monitoring, and governance
The portal manages agents, models, and tools with tracing, metrics, model tracking, Azure Policy, identity, and publishing to Microsoft 365, Teams, BizChat, or containerized targets.[1], [3]
Where it fits best
Pricing and availability
The Foundry platform is free to use and explore, but pricing occurs at the deployment level. Models, agents, tools, hosted CPU and memory, monitoring, and other underlying Azure services have their own billing models.[1], [3], [4]
Platforms: Microsoft Foundry portal, REST API, Python SDK, .NET SDK, JavaScript or TypeScript SDK, Java SDK, Visual Studio Code extension, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams[1], [2], [3]
Access: Managed prompt agents, Managed hosted agents from containers, Managed hosted agents from source code, External applications using the Responses API, Containerized application publishing[1], [2], [3]
Important considerations
- Foundry requires an Azure account, and underlying model, agent, tool, monitoring, storage, and networking services can all add separate charges.[1], [4]
- Hosted agents require code packaging, deployment infrastructure, permissions, and supported-region availability, unlike configuration-only prompt agents.[2], [3]
- Managed hosted-agent runtime billing is based on CPU and memory consumed during active sessions, in addition to model and other Azure service costs.[3], [4]
Sources (4)
- What is Microsoft Foundry? | Microsoft LearnDocumentation · checked 2026-08-23
- What is Microsoft Foundry Agent Service? | Microsoft LearnDocumentation · checked 2026-08-23
- Hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service | Microsoft LearnDocumentation · checked 2026-08-23
- Plan and Manage Costs | Microsoft FoundryPricing page · checked 2026-08-23
Autonomy level
89/100
Our subjective rating of how independently the product carries out its documented tasks, considering the human setup, input, approval and review it needs. This is not a measured success rate.
Comparisons
Custom Comparisons
Some of the use cases of Azure AI Foundry:
- Developing and deploying custom AI applications with integrated tools and services.
- Exploring and evaluating a wide range of AI models for various use cases.
- Collaborating on AI projects with team members in a secure environment.
- Scaling AI solutions from proof of concept to full production seamlessly.
- Ensuring responsible AI practices with built-in safety and compliance features.
Loading Community Opinions...
Pricing model:
Code access:
Popularity level: 74%
Tags:
Azure AI Foundry Video:
Turn this profile into a trust signal
Show prospects that Azure AI Foundry has a public place where they can check product details, pricing, ratings, and reviews.
Build confidence
Give buyers a third-party profile to explore.
Reduce hesitation
Put validation beside your strongest CTA.
Earn discovery
Every badge links prospects to your listing.
Choose your style
Preview it, then copy the complete embed code.
Shows buyers where to validate your product, pricing, and reputation.
Plain HTML. No signup, script, or maintenance required.
AI Agent Store · Specialist AI agentsFor custom ai agent development consultancies
Your AI agent for enterprise AI application handovers.
Exploring Azure AI Foundry? For custom AI agent development consultancies, your own AI agent can scope client outcomes, build and evaluate agents, and deliver and maintain client releases. Start with a setup tailored to this work.
- ✓ Scope client outcomes
- ✓ Build and evaluate agents
- ✓ Deliver and maintain client releases
Tailored starting setup. Chat on our site. See the workflow and monthly plan.