Azure AI Foundry
Build and run AI apps on Azure.
Azure’s platform for OpenAI and partner models, agents, evaluation and responsible-AI tooling.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Category
- Inference & model hosting
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Azure
- Launched
- 2023
- Website
- azure.microsoft.com/products/ai-foundry
Features
- Azure OpenAI
- Agent service
- Content safety
Best for
- Enterprise
Works with
- GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI. OpenAI’s flagship for deep research, science and end-to-end engineering.
- GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI. Mid-tier GPT-6 model with excellent cost per task for agentic coding.
More inference & model hosting
- Ollama — Ollama. Run open models locally with one command.
- OpenRouter — OpenRouter. One API for hundreds of models.
- vLLM — vLLM project. High-throughput LLM serving engine.
- llama.cpp — ggml. LLM inference in C/C++ on any hardware.
- Amazon Bedrock — AWS. Foundation models on AWS.
- Vertex AI — Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s AI platform.
- LM Studio — Element Labs. Desktop app to discover and run local LLMs.
- Groq — Groq. Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs.