Azure AI Search
Managed retrieval for RAG and agents on Azure.
Microsoft’s managed search service with vector, hybrid and semantic ranking, integrated chunking and vectorisation, and agentic retrieval that plans multi-step queries for agents.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Category
- Vector databases
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Azure, API
- Website
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-search
Features
- Hybrid & semantic ranking
- Integrated vectorisation
- Agentic retrieval
Best for
- Enterprise
- Research
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