Azure API Management AI gateway
AI gateway policies built into Azure API Management.
Capabilities in Azure API Management for governing model, MCP and agent APIs: token limits and quotas per consumer, semantic caching, load balancing with circuit breakers, content-safety checks, and token metrics in Azure Monitor. Works with Microsoft Foundry and other providers such as Amazon Bedrock; a unified OpenAI-compatible model API is in preview.
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Category
- AI gateways
- Pricing
- Paid
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Azure
- Website
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/genai-gateway-capabilities
Features
- Token limits & quotas
- Semantic caching
- Load balancing
- Content safety
Best for
- Enterprise
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