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Azure OpenAI Service

Azure OpenAI Service (part of Microsoft Foundry Models) provides REST API access to OpenAI models including GPT, o-series reasoning models, DALL-E, Whisper, and embedding models, hosted within Microsoft Azure with enterprise security, regional availability, private networking, content filtering, and Microsoft Entra ID integration. The data-plane REST API exposes endpoints for chat completions, completions, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription/translation, fine-tuning, and the Responses API, while the control-plane API manages Azure OpenAI resources and deployments.

Azure OpenAI Service publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Azure OpenAI Inference REST API, Audio API, Chat Completions API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Generative AI, Azure, and OpenAI.

The Azure OpenAI Service catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Azure OpenAI Service’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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38.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessSelf serve
8 APIs
AILLMGenerative AIAzureOpenAIFoundation ModelsChat CompletionsEmbeddings

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 38.8/100 · thin
Contract Quality 16.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 7.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 5.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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 6 / 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
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APIs 8

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

Azure OpenAI Inference REST API

Data-plane REST API for running inference against deployed Azure OpenAI models, including chat completions, completions, embeddings, image generation, and audio transcription/tr...

Azure OpenAI Responses API

Stateful, agent-friendly API for building multi-turn AI experiences with tool use, file inputs, and conversation state managed on the service side.

Azure OpenAI Control Plane API

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) REST API for creating and managing Azure OpenAI accounts, model deployments, network rules, and other resource configuration.

Azure OpenAI Service Audio API

Audio transcription and translation (Whisper)

Azure OpenAI Service Chat Completions API

Chat-formatted text generation

Azure OpenAI Service Completions API

Plain text completions

Azure OpenAI Service Embeddings API

Vector embeddings

Azure OpenAI Service Images API

Image generation (DALL-E)

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Open Collections 1

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

Azure OpenAI Inference REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Azure OpenAI Service GraphQL API

Azure OpenAI Service provides REST API access to OpenAI models (GPT-4, GPT-3.5, DALL-E, Whisper, Embeddings) with enterprise SLAs, private networking, and Azure identity. The AP...

GRAPHQL

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Azure OpenAI Service - Streaming and Realtime APIs

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of the asynchronous and streaming surfaces of the Azure OpenAI Service (part of Microsoft Foundry Models): * The **Realtime API** over a WebSocket conne...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Azure OpenAI Service API Rules

9 rules · 1 errors 8 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Azure Openai Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Azure Openai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Azure Openai Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Azure Openai Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Azure Openai Agentic Access

6 operations · 6 acting

6 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Signup
Signup

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference
 OpenAPI Source
OpenAPI Source

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

GitHub Samples
GitHub Samples

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-openai
name: Azure OpenAI Service
description: Azure OpenAI Service (part of Microsoft Foundry Models) provides REST API access to OpenAI models including GPT,
  o-series reasoning models, DALL-E, Whisper, and embedding models, hosted within Microsoft Azure with enterprise security,
  regional availability, private networking, content filtering, and Microsoft Entra ID integration. The data-plane REST API
  exposes endpoints for chat completions, completions, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription/translation, fine-tuning,
  and the Responses API, while the control-plane API manages Azure OpenAI resources and deployments.
type: Index
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-openai.png
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Generative AI
- Azure
- OpenAI
- Foundation Models
- Chat Completions
- Embeddings
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-openai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-29'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: azure-openai:inference-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Inference REST API
  description: Data-plane REST API for running inference against deployed Azure OpenAI models, including chat completions,
    completions, embeddings, image generation, and audio transcription/translation. Authenticate with API key (api-key header)
    or Microsoft Entra ID bearer token.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai
  tags:
  - Inference
  - Chat Completions
  - Embeddings
  - Image Generation
  - Audio
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  - type: API Reference (Latest)
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/latest
  - type: API Reference (Preview)
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/reference-preview-latest
  - type: OpenAPI Source
    url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/azure-openai/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/azure-openai-asyncapi.yml
  - url: graphql/azure-openai-graphql.md
    type: GraphQL
- aid: azure-openai:responses-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Responses API
  description: Stateful, agent-friendly API for building multi-turn AI experiences with tool use, file inputs, and conversation
    state managed on the service side.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/how-to/responses
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai/responses
  tags:
  - Responses
  - Agents
  - Tool Use
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/openai/how-to/responses
- aid: azure-openai:control-plane
  name: Azure OpenAI Control Plane API
  description: Azure Resource Manager (ARM) REST API for creating and managing Azure OpenAI accounts, model deployments, network
    rules, and other resource configuration.
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - ARM
  - Control Plane
  - Deployments
  - Resource Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/
- aid: azure-openai:azure-openai-audio-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Service Audio API
  description: Audio transcription and translation (Whisper)
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai
  tags:
  - Audio
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-openai-audio-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-openai:azure-openai-chat-completions-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Service Chat Completions API
  description: Chat-formatted text generation
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai
  tags:
  - Chat Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-openai-chat-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-openai:azure-openai-completions-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Service Completions API
  description: Plain text completions
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai
  tags:
  - Completions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-openai-completions-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-openai:azure-openai-embeddings-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Service Embeddings API
  description: Vector embeddings
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai
  tags:
  - Embeddings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-openai-embeddings-api-openapi.yml
- aid: azure-openai:azure-openai-images-api
  name: Azure OpenAI Service Images API
  description: Image generation (DALL-E)
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
  baseURL: https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai
  tags:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/azure-openai-images-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/azure-openai-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/azure-openai-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/azure-openai-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/azure-openai-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/azure-openai-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/openai-service
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/openai/quickstart
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cognitive-services/openai-service/
- type: Signup
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
- type: GitHub Samples
  url: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/Azure-OpenAI-Docs-Samples
- type: OpenAPI Source
  url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/main/specification/cognitiveservices/data-plane/AzureOpenAI
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/llms.txt
- url: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/s/gxcuf89792/rss/board?board.id=azure-ai-foundry-blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com