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Microsoft Azure Advisor

Microsoft Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then recommends solutions to improve the cost effectiveness, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence of your Azure resources.

Microsoft Azure Advisor publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Operations API and Recommendations API. Tagged areas include Advisor, Best Practices, Cost Optimization, Microsoft Azure, and Optimization.

Microsoft Azure Advisor’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, pricing, support, and 8 more developer resources.

44.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
2 APIs
AdvisorBest PracticesCost OptimizationMicrosoft AzureOptimizationRecommendations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 2

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

Open Collections 4

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Azure Advisor REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

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

Security Posture 2

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

Microsoft Azure Advisor Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Microsoft Azure Advisor Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Microsoft Azure Advisor Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Microsoft Azure Advisor Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: microsoft-azure-advisor
name: Microsoft Azure Advisor
description: Microsoft Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your
  Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then recommends solutions to improve the
  cost effectiveness, performance, reliability, security, and operational excellence of your Azure resources.
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: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/microsoft-azure-advisor.png
tags:
- Advisor
- Best Practices
- Cost Optimization
- Microsoft Azure
- Optimization
- Recommendations
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/microsoft-azure-advisor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-operations-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Operations API
  description: Operations operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Operations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-operations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-vs-authorization
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/advisor
- aid: microsoft-azure-advisor:microsoft-azure-advisor-recommendations-api
  name: Microsoft Azure Advisor Recommendations API
  description: Recommendations operations
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com/
  tags:
  - Recommendations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/microsoft-azure-advisor-recommendations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/advisor/operation-groups
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/authentication-vs-authorization
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/main/sdk/advisor
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/microsoft-azure-advisor-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/microsoft-azure-advisor-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/microsoft-azure-advisor-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/microsoft-azure-advisor-scopes.yml
- type: Portal
  url: https://portal.azure.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: Support
  url: https://support.microsoft.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.azure.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Azure
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://portal.azure.com/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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