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Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Instances (ACI) is the fastest and simplest way to run containers in Azure without having to manage virtual machines or adopt a higher-level orchestration service. It offers serverless containers with per-second billing, custom sizes, and seamless integration with the Azure ecosystem for burst and event-driven workloads.

Azure Container Instances publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Operations API, Subscriptions API, Container Groups API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Microsoft Azure, Cloud, Container Instances, Containers, and Microsoft.

The Azure Container Instances catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Azure Container Instances’ developer surface includes developer portal, authentication, documentation, pricing, engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 17 more developer resources.

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52.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
AccessSelf serve
1 published contract
Microsoft AzureCloudContainer InstancesContainersMicrosoftServerless

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management
BC-600
Container GroupsSubscriptions
PUT /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{name} POST /subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}/providers/Microsoft.ContainerInstance/containerGroups/{containerGroupName}/restart

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Composite quality — 52.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 9.8 / 19
Developer Ergonomics 7.5 / 15
Access Clarity 6.7 / 15
Operational Transparency 3.6 / 10
Contract Governance 2.5 / 9
Discoverability 5.4 / 8
Regulatory Posture 6.0 / 15
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.2 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · 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 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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
Pagination 5 / 5
Distinct Operations 0 / 3
MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
  • Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
  • Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.
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Standards implemented 2

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.

OpenAPI
measured — observed by APIs.io (published)
OAuth 2.0
measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Azure Container Instances Operations API

The Operations API from Azure Container Instances — 1 operation(s) for operations.

Azure Container Instances Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Azure Container Instances — 12 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Azure Container Instances Container Groups API

Container Groups operations

Azure Container Instances Operations API

Operations operations

Open Collections 2

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

ContainerInstanceManagementClient Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

ContainerInstanceManagementClient Operations Subscriptions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure Container Instances API pricing

Rate limits

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Azure Container Instances Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Azure Container Instances Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Azure Container Instances Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Azure Container Instances Context

20 classes · 50 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Azure Container Instances — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Azure Container Instances API Rules

18 rules · 5 errors 9 warnings 4 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 28

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AzureFileVolume

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CachedImagesListResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CapabilitiesListResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Capabilities

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerExecRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerExecResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerExec

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerGroupDiagnostics

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerGroupIdentity

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerGroupListResult

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerGroupNetworkProfile

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerGroup

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerHttpGet

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerPort

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerProbe

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerProperties

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Container

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerState

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DnsConfiguration

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmptyDirVolume

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EnvironmentVariable

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Event

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GitRepoVolume

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GpuResource

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageRegistryCredential

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IpAddress

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LogAnalytics

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Logs

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 28

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Azure Container Instances Azure File Volume Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Cached Images List Result Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Capabilities List Result Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Capabilities Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Exec Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Exec Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Exec Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Diagnostics Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Identity Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Group List Result Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Network Profile Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Http Get Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Port Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Probe Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Properties Structure

9 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container State Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Container Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Dns Configuration Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Empty Dir Volume Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Environment Variable Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Event Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Git Repo Volume Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Gpu Resource Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Image Registry Credential Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Ip Address Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Log Analytics Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Container Instances Logs Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 28

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Azure Container Instances Azure File Volume Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Cached Images List Result Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Capabilities Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Capabilities List Result Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Exec Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Exec Request Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Exec Response Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Diagnostics Example

0 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Example

0 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Identity Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Group List Result Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Group Network Profile Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Http Get Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Port Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Probe Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container Properties Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Container State Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Dns Configuration Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Empty Dir Volume Example

0 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Environment Variable Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Event Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Git Repo Volume Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Gpu Resource Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Image Registry Credential Example

3 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Ip Address Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Log Analytics Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Azure Container Instances Logs Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 3

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

Azure Container Instances Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Azure Container Instances Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Azure Container Instances Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Azure Container Instances Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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Azure Container Instances Agentic Access

16 operations · 8 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

16 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 Signup
Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText
LlmsText
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules
SpectralRules
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 JSONLD
JSONLD

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

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 Support
Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Pricing
Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap
CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: azure-container-instances
name: Azure Container Instances
description: Azure Container Instances (ACI) is the fastest and simplest way to run containers in Azure without having to
  manage virtual machines or adopt a higher-level orchestration service. It offers serverless containers with per-second billing,
  custom sizes, and seamless integration with the Azure ecosystem for burst and event-driven workloads.
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
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/azure-container-instances.png
tags:
- Microsoft Azure
- Cloud
- Container Instances
- Containers
- Microsoft
- Serverless
tags_raw:
- Azure
- Cloud
- Container Instances
- Containers
- Microsoft
- Serverless
url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-instances
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: azure-container-instances:azure-container-instances-operations-api
  name: Azure Container Instances Operations API
  description: The Operations API from Azure Container Instances — 1 operation(s) for operations.
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-instances
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-instances-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-quickstart
- aid: azure-container-instances:azure-container-instances-subscriptions-api
  name: Azure Container Instances Subscriptions API
  description: The Subscriptions API from Azure Container Instances — 12 operation(s) for subscriptions.
  humanURL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-instances
  tags:
  - Subscription
  tags_raw:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-instances-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/container-instances-quickstart
- aid: microsoft-azure-container-instances:microsoft-azure-container-instances-container-groups-api
  name: Azure Container Instances Container Groups API
  description: Container Groups operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/container-instances/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags:
  - Container Groups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-instances-container-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/container-instances/
- aid: microsoft-azure-container-instances:microsoft-azure-container-instances-operations-api
  name: Azure Container Instances Operations API
  description: Operations operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/container-instances/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-container-instances-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/container-instances/
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/azure-container-instances-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/azure-container-instances-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/azure-container-instances-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/azure-container-instances-capability-edges.yml
  name: Azure Container Instances Business Capability Map
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://portal.azure.com/llms.txt
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/azure-container-instances-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/azure-container-instances-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/azure-container-instances-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/azure-container-instances-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/azure-container-instances-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/container-instances
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-instances/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/container-instances/
- type: Blog
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
- type: Signup
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.azure.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-instances/refs/heads/main/rules/azure-container-instances-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-instances/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/azure-container-instances-vocabulary.yaml
- type: JSONLD
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-container-instances/refs/heads/main/json-ld/azure-container-instances-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: microsoft-azure
x-relationship: product

Azure Container Instances API — frequently asked questions

Does Azure Container Instances have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Azure Container Instances, including Azure Container Instances Operations API, Azure Container Instances Subscriptions API and Azure Container Instances Container Groups API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Azure Container Instances API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Azure Container Instances, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Azure Container Instances API?

Azure Container Instances uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Azure Container Instances Authentication.

Is the Azure Container Instances API ready for AI agents?

Azure Container Instances has a Kin Score of 52.4 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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