# Azure AI Search

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-search/  
**Website:** https://portal.azure.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Azure AI Search (formerly Azure Cognitive Search) is a cloud search service with built-in AI capabilities for enriching content and enabling vector and semantic search over heterogeneous data. It indexes content from Azure data sources and supports full-text, faceted, geospatial, vector, and hybrid retrieval.

## Kin Score — 44.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 53.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **Azure AI Search Management REST API** — The management REST API provides operations for creating and managing Azure AI Search service instances, scaling replicas and partitions, and managing keys and shared private li...
- **Azure AI Search Documents API** — The Documents API from Azure AI Search — 2 operation(s) for documents.
- **Azure AI Search Indexes API** — The Indexes API from Azure AI Search — 2 operation(s) for indexes.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Search Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 4 acting

## Security (2)

- **Microsoft Azure Search Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Microsoft Azure Search Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Search Plans Pricing**

## Tags

AI Search, Cognitive Search, Hybrid Search, Search, Semantic Search, Vector Search

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