# Azure OpenAI Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/azure-openai/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/openai-service  
**APIs profiled:** 8

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.

## Kin Score — 38.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 64.1 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 27.4 (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 | derived |
| 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 (8)

- **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)

## Agentic access (1)

- **Azure Openai Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 6 acting

## Security (3)

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

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, LLM, Generative AI, Azure, OpenAI, Foundation Models, Chat Completions, Embeddings

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