Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) is an end-to-end platform for building, optimizing, evaluating, and governing AI applications and agents at scale. It provides access to Foundry Models (including Azure OpenAI and open-source models), the Foundry Agent Service, content safety, observability, and responsible AI tooling. The Foundry REST APIs and Azure SDKs use Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens or API keys for authentication.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry publishes 36 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Operations API, Analyzer Results API, Analyzers API, and 33 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Agents, Foundation Models, and Machine Learning.
The Microsoft Azure AI Foundry catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry’s developer surface includes CLI, changelog, getting-started guide, developer portal, support, authentication, documentation, and 43 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typed Decision Models | covered | 51.8 | - | 1 |
| AI Model Routing | covered | 51.8 | - | 1 |
| Retrieval, Vector and RAG | covered | 51.8 | - | 1 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 5
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 36
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Azure AI Foundry REST API
REST API for managing Foundry projects, hubs, model deployments, agents, threads, runs, and evaluations. Authentication uses Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens (or API k...
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Operations API
Operations operations
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Analyzer Results API
The AnalyzerResults API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 2 operation(s) for analyzerresults.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Analyzers API
The Analyzers API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 7 operation(s) for analyzers.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Assistants API
The Assistants API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 2 operation(s) for assistants.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Connections API
The Connections API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 3 operation(s) for connections.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Datasets API
The Datasets API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 5 operation(s) for datasets.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Defaults API
The Defaults API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for defaults.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Deployments API
The Deployments API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 2 operation(s) for deployments.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Detect API
The Detect API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for detect.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry DetectLiveness Sessions API
The DetectLiveness Sessions API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 2 operation(s) for detectliveness sessions.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry DetectLivenessWithVerify Sessions API
The DetectLivenessWithVerify Sessions API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 2 operation(s) for detectlivenesswithverify sessions.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Classifiers:authorize Copy API
The DocumentClassifiers:authorizeCopy API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for documentclassifiers:authorizecopy.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Evals API
The Evals API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 6 operation(s) for evals.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Facelists API
The Facelists API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 4 operation(s) for facelists.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Files API
The Files API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 3 operation(s) for files.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Findsimilars API
The Findsimilars API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for findsimilars.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Group API
The Group API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for group.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Identify API
The Identify API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for identify.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Imageanalysis:analyze API
The Imageanalysis:analyze API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for imageanalysis:analyze.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Indexes API
The Indexes API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 3 operation(s) for indexes.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Info API
The Info API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for info.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Largefacelists API
The Largefacelists API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 6 operation(s) for largefacelists.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Largepersongroups API
The Largepersongroups API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 8 operation(s) for largepersongroups.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Radiology Insights API
The RadiologyInsights API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for radiologyinsights.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Session Images API
The SessionImages API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for sessionimages.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Threads API
The Threads API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 11 operation(s) for threads.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Vector Stores API
The Vector Stores API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 8 operation(s) for vector stores.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Verify API
The Verify API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for verify.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Classifiers API
The Document Classifiers API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 5 operation(s) for document classifiers.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Classifiers:build API
The Document Classifiers:build API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for document classifiers:build.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Models API
The Document Models API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 10 operation(s) for document models.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Models:authorize Copy API
The Document Models:authorize Copy API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for document models:authorize copy.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Models:build API
The Document Models:build API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for document models:build.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Document Models:compose API
The Document Models:compose API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 1 operation(s) for document models:compose.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Person Groups API
The Person Groups API from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry — 8 operation(s) for person groups.
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Open Collections 6
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure AI Foundry Model Inference REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry MCP Server
MCP SERVERAgent Skills 2
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
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AGENT SKILLrun-agent-on-thread
AGENT SKILLMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry API pricing
Rate limits
- Maximum number of files per agent/thread: 10000
- Maximum file size for agents: 512 MB
- Maximum size for all uploaded files for agents: 300 GB
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSTerms of Service 1
What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
8 quoted statements, read from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own page on 2026-11-09.
TERMSEligibility 1
Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
3 quoted statements, read from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own page on 2026-11-09.
ELIGIBILITYAI Preferences 1
Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
2 quoted statements, read from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own page on 2026-11-09.
AI PREFSData License 1
How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
1 quoted statement, read from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's own page on 2026-11-09.
LICENSEFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Event Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Azure Ai Foundry Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Azure Ai Foundry Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 89
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AddFaceFromUrlRequest
JSON SCHEMAAddFaceResult
JSON SCHEMAAgentDeletionStatus
JSON SCHEMAAgent
JSON SCHEMAAnalyzeBatchDocumentsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAnalyzeBatchOperation
JSON SCHEMAAnalyzeOperation
JSON SCHEMAAnalyzeRequest
JSON SCHEMAAssetCredentialResponse
JSON SCHEMAAuthorizeClassifierCopyRequest
JSON SCHEMAAuthorizeCopyRequest
JSON SCHEMAAzure.Core.uuid
JSON SCHEMABuildDocumentClassifierRequest
JSON SCHEMABuildDocumentModelRequest
JSON SCHEMAChatCompletionRequest
JSON SCHEMAChatCompletionResponse
JSON SCHEMAClassifierCopyAuthorization
JSON SCHEMAComposeDocumentModelRequest
JSON SCHEMAConnection
JSON SCHEMAContentAnalyzerAnalyzeOperationStatus
JSON SCHEMAContentAnalyzerOperationStatus
JSON SCHEMAContentAnalyzer
JSON SCHEMAContentUnderstandingDefaultsMergePatchUpdate
JSON SCHEMAContentUnderstandingDefaults
JSON SCHEMACopyAuthorization
JSON SCHEMACopyRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateAgentOptions
JSON SCHEMACreateCollectionRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateEvalRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateEvalRunRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLivenessSessionContent
JSON SCHEMADatasetVersion
JSON SCHEMADecisionRequest
JSON SCHEMADecisionResponse
JSON SCHEMADeployment
JSON SCHEMADocumentClassifierDetails
JSON SCHEMADocumentIntelligenceResourceDetails
JSON SCHEMADocumentModelBuildOperationDetails
JSON SCHEMADocumentModelDetails
JSON SCHEMAEvalRunOutputItem
JSON SCHEMAEvalRun
JSON SCHEMAEval
JSON SCHEMAFaceDetectionResult
JSON SCHEMAFaceListItem
JSON SCHEMAFaceList
JSON SCHEMAFileDeletionStatus
JSON SCHEMAFileInfo
JSON SCHEMAFileListResponse
JSON SCHEMAFindSimilarResult
JSON SCHEMAGroupingResult
JSON SCHEMAIdentificationResult
JSON SCHEMAImageAnalysisResult
JSON SCHEMAIndex
JSON SCHEMALargeFaceListFace
JSON SCHEMALargeFaceList
JSON SCHEMALargePersonGroupPersonFace
JSON SCHEMALargePersonGroupPerson
JSON SCHEMALargePersonGroup
JSON SCHEMALivenessSession
JSON SCHEMALivenessWithVerifySession
JSON SCHEMAModelCopyAuthorization
JSON SCHEMAOperationList
JSON SCHEMAPagedAnalyzeBatchOperation
JSON SCHEMAPagedConnection
JSON SCHEMAPagedDatasetVersion
JSON SCHEMAPagedDeployment
JSON SCHEMAPagedDocumentClassifierDetails
JSON SCHEMAPagedDocumentIntelligenceOperationDetails
JSON SCHEMAPagedIndex
JSON SCHEMAPendingUploadRequest
JSON SCHEMAPendingUploadResponse
JSON SCHEMAPersonGroupPersonFace
JSON SCHEMAPersonGroupPerson
JSON SCHEMAPersonGroup
JSON SCHEMARadiologyInsightsJob
JSON SCHEMAResourceList
JSON SCHEMAResource
JSON SCHEMAThreadRun
JSON SCHEMATrainingResult
JSON SCHEMAUpdateAgentOptions
JSON SCHEMAUpdateEvalParametersBody
JSON SCHEMAUserDefinedFieldsForUpdate
JSON SCHEMAVectorStoreFileBatch
JSON SCHEMAVectorStoreFileDeletionStatus
JSON SCHEMAVectorStoreFile
JSON SCHEMAVectorStoreOptions
JSON SCHEMAVectorStore
JSON SCHEMAVectorStoreUpdateOptions
JSON SCHEMAVerificationResult
JSON SCHEMAScroll for all 89
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 6
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 7
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry API — frequently asked questions
Does Microsoft Azure AI Foundry have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 36 APIs from Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, including Azure AI Foundry REST API, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Operations API and Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Analyzer Results API, and 33 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Microsoft Azure AI Foundry API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 35 OpenAPI specifications for Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Microsoft Azure AI Foundry API?
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Authentication.
Does Microsoft Azure AI Foundry have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Microsoft Azure AI Foundry.
Is the Microsoft Azure AI Foundry API ready for AI agents?
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry has a Kin Score of 66.3 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 38.1 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
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