# Azure AI Search

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/azure-ai-search/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/products/ai-services/ai-search  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Azure AI Search is a cloud-based search-as-a-service offering from Microsoft Azure, providing powerful AI-driven indexing, semantic search, and customizable relevance tuning for developers and enterprises. It enables integration of advanced search capabilities into applications, supporting full-text, vector, and hybrid search scenarios, with built-in security, scaling, and monitoring features. This service is part of Azure AI Services, delivering intelligent information retrieval across structured and unstructured data.

## Kin Score — 30.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-6.0 from 36.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.1 |
| Contract Quality | 27.2 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 44.0 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 22.7 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 17.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | no |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (7)

- **Azure AI Search API** — Azure AI Search REST API
- **Azure AI Search Azure AI Search API** — The Azure AI Search API API from Azure AI Search — 1 operation(s) for azure ai search api.
- **Azure AI Search Indexes API** — The Indexes API from Azure AI Search — 2 operation(s) for indexes.
- **Azure AI Search Subscriptions API** — The Subscriptions API from Azure AI Search — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.
- **Azure AI Search Swagger API** — The Swagger API from Azure AI Search — 1 operation(s) for swagger.
- **Azure AI Search Todoitems API** — The Todoitems API from Azure AI Search — 2 operation(s) for todoitems.
- **Azure AI Search Weatherforecast API** — The Weatherforecast API from Azure AI Search — 1 operation(s) for weatherforecast.

## Security (3)

- **Azure Ai Search Authentication** — 2 schemes
- **Azure Ai Search Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Azure Ai Search Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Azure Ai Search Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Search, Microsoft Azure, Cloud, Services

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