# Microsoft Azure AI Foundry

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/azure-ai-foundry/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-foundry/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 30.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 51.7 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Azure Ai Foundry Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 6 acting

## Security (3)

- **Azure Ai Foundry Authentication** — apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Azure Ai Foundry Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Azure Ai Foundry Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Agents, Foundation Models, Machine-Learning, Cloud, Azure

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/azure-ai-foundry/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.