# Azure OpenAI Inference REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/inference-api/  
**Provider:** Azure OpenAI Service — https://apis.io/providers/azure-openai/  
**Base URL:** https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai  
**Documentation:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference

Azure OpenAI Inference REST API is one of 8 APIs that [Azure OpenAI Service](https://apis.io/providers/azure-openai/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Inference, Chat Completions, Embeddings, Image-Generation, and Audio. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an AsyncAPI specification.

Data-plane REST API for running inference against deployed Azure OpenAI models, including chat completions, completions, embeddings, image generation, and audio transcription/translation. Authenticate with API key (api-key header) or Microsoft Entra ID bearer token.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
- **API Reference (Latest)** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/latest
- **API Reference (Preview)** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/reference-preview-latest
- **OpenAPI Source** — https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-openai/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/azure-openai-asyncapi.yml
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-openai/refs/heads/main/graphql/azure-openai-graphql.md
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-openai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Azure OpenAI Service APIs (7)

- [Azure OpenAI Responses API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/responses-api/)
- [Azure OpenAI Control Plane API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/control-plane/)
- [Azure OpenAI Service Audio API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/azure-openai-audio-api/)
- [Azure OpenAI Service Chat Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/azure-openai-chat-completions-api/)
- [Azure OpenAI Service Completions API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/azure-openai-completions-api/)
- [Azure OpenAI Service Embeddings API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/azure-openai-embeddings-api/)
- [Azure OpenAI Service Images API](https://apis.io/apis/azure-openai/azure-openai-images-api/)

## Tags

Inference, Chat Completions, Embeddings, Image-Generation, Audio

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