Microsoft Foundry
Build, deploy, and scale AI apps and agents that understand your business context.
Microsoft's unified AI platform for building, deploying, and managing AI apps and agents with a large model catalog.
Microsoft Foundry homepage — the AI app and agent factory
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What is Microsoft Foundry?
Build, deploy, and scale AI apps and agents that understand your business context.
Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) is Microsoft's unified, interoperable AI platform for building AI apps and agents. It brings together a model catalog, agent services, knowledge and tool integrations, and observability with enterprise-grade security and governance in one portal.
- Browse and deploy models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and others
- Build agents with the Foundry Agent Service and frameworks
- Ground agents in your business context with knowledge and tools
- Monitor, evaluate, and govern everything from one management plane
Pricing is flexible and consumption-based: each service has its own billing model, and you can try Azure free for up to 30 days.
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Microsoft Foundry Availability
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Microsoft Foundry Key Features
Model catalog
Foundation, open, reasoning, and multimodal models with instant benchmark and compare for your use case.
Agent Service and frameworks
Platform services and frameworks for building AI agents.
Knowledge and tools
Connect enterprise context with knowledge sources and tools such as MCP tools.
Observability and trust
Built-in security, compliance, observability, and unified governance across projects.
Ecosystem integration
Works with the VS Code Foundry extension, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft Copilot Studio.
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Who uses Microsoft Foundry?
AI developers and teams building agents on Azure
Select, deploy, and govern AI models and agents in one unified Azure platform
Plans and access
Microsoft Foundry Pricing
Paid
Common questions
Microsoft Foundry FAQs
What is Microsoft Foundry?
Microsoft Foundry is Microsoft's unified AI platform for building, deploying, and managing AI apps and agents. It combines a model catalog, agent services, tool integrations, and observability with enterprise security and governance.
Is Microsoft Foundry the same as Azure AI Foundry?
Yes — Microsoft Foundry is the current name after the Azure AI Studio to Azure AI Foundry rebrand. The portal still lives at ai.azure.com.
How is Microsoft Foundry priced?
Pricing is flexible and consumption-based: each service and feature has its own billing model and price. You can also try Azure free for up to 30 days.
Do I need an Azure account to use Foundry?
You can explore Foundry without an Azure account, but building agents requires an Azure subscription.
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