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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 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Chat Completions API, Completions API, Embeddings API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Agents, Foundation Models, and Machine-Learning.

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

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31.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 17/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs
Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIAI AgentsFoundation ModelsMachine-LearningCloudAzure

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 31.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 11.3 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 6.0 / 18
Access Clarity 4.3 / 18
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 12
Contract Governance 0.0 / 11
Discoverability 6.8 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 17/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 6

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 Chat Completions API

Chat-formatted text generation

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Completions API

Plain text completions

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Embeddings API

Vector embeddings for text

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Images API

Image generation

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Models API

Model and deployment metadata

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions Embeddings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST Chat Completions Models API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure AI Foundry Model Inference REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Azure Ai Foundry Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Azure Ai Foundry Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Azure Ai Foundry Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Azure Ai Foundry Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Azure Ai Foundry Agentic Access

7 operations · 6 acting

7 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup
Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LlmsText
LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: azure-ai-foundry
name: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry
description: 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.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/azure-ai-foundry.png
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- AI Agents
- Foundation Models
- Machine-Learning
- Cloud
- Azure
tags_raw:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Generative AI
- AI Agents
- Foundation Models
- Machine Learning
- Cloud
- Azure
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-ai-foundry/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: azure-ai-foundry:foundry-api
  name: Azure AI Foundry REST API
  description: 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 keys for inference endpoints) over HTTPS.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.services.ai.azure.com
  tags:
  - AI Foundry
  - Agents
  - Models
  - Generative AI
  - Azure
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  - type: REST API Reference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/aifoundry/
  - type: SDK Overview
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/how-to/develop/sdk-overview
  - type: Portal
    url: https://ai.azure.com/
- aid: azure-ai-foundry:azure-ai-foundry-chat-completions-api
  name: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Chat Completions API
  description: Chat-formatted text generation
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.services.ai.azure.com
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-ai-foundry-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-ai-foundry:azure-ai-foundry-completions-api
  name: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Completions API
  description: Plain text completions
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.services.ai.azure.com
  tags:
  - Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-ai-foundry-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-ai-foundry:azure-ai-foundry-embeddings-api
  name: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Embeddings API
  description: Vector embeddings for text
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.services.ai.azure.com
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-ai-foundry-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-ai-foundry:azure-ai-foundry-images-api
  name: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Images API
  description: Image generation
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.services.ai.azure.com
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-ai-foundry-images-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-ai-foundry:azure-ai-foundry-models-api
  name: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Models API
  description: Model and deployment metadata
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.services.ai.azure.com
  tags:
  - Models
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-ai-foundry-models-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/azure-ai-foundry-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/azure-ai-foundry-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/azure-ai-foundry-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/azure-ai-foundry-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/azure-ai-foundry-scopes.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/azure-ai-foundry
- type: Website
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ai-foundry/
- type: Signup
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://ai.azure.com/llms.txt
- url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/feed/atom/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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