Microsoft Foundry
Researched 3d agoHyperscalerTier 1Microsoft
Microsoft Foundry offers 156 tracked models (99 with output token pricing). This catalog covers coding, rag, and agents; open any model detail page for benchmarks, batch tiers, and migration prompts.
Covers 7 workload areas across 156 tracked models; last verified 2026-11-10.
Use it for
- Teams comparing token and batch pricing across this provider's models
- Operators routing coding, rag, and agents workloads through this API
Do not use it for
- Final benchmark picks without opening the relevant model detail page
Tracked models
156
Models available through this provider
Priced output routes
99
Models with output token pricing tracked
Cheapest output
$0.040
Ministral 3B on this route
Batch-ready models
0
No batch pricing tracked
Latest model release
2026-10-09
35d since newest release
Freshness
2026-11-10
Researched 3d ago
Routes available via routers & gateways
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Information
Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. It provides access to over 1,900 models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Meta, DeepSeek, Hugging Face, and more. Foundry unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping with built-in enterprise-readiness capabilities including tracing, monitoring, evaluations, and customizable enterprise setup configurations.
Where this host wins
- Coding: 24 tracked models with SWE-bench / HumanEval-style scores.
- RAG: 22 tracked models with ruler / needle retrieval benchmarks.
- Agentic: 22 tracked models with BFCL, tau-bench, and SWE-bench tool-use coverage.
- Long-context: 30 tracked models with context-token or InfiniteBench-class signal.
Getting started
Platform Overview
Microsoft Foundry offers a comprehensive platform-as-a-service for enterprise AI operations. It provides multiple deployment options including Serverless APIs (pay-as-you-go), Global Standard (shared managed capacity), Provisioned Throughput Units (reserved capacity), batch processing, and bring-your-own model deployments. The platform features a unified control plane for models, agents, tools, and observability. Its Agent Service enables building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing, monitoring, and governance. Evaluation and monitoring tools assess model performance, safety, and groundedness. Foundry supports seamless upgrades from Azure OpenAI with non-destructive migration, maintaining existing deployments while unlocking multi-provider model access and advanced platform capabilities.
Available Models(156)
View all →| Model | Per hour of audio | List price | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft-Decision-1 | — | — | Serverless |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | — | — | Serverless |
| MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming | $0.54 / hour of audio | — | Serverless |
| MAI-Voice-2.1 | — | $22.00/1M chars | Serverless |
| MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash | — | $15.00/1M chars | Serverless |
| Cohere Embed 5 Fast | — | — | Serverless |
| Cohere Embed 5 Pro | — | — | Serverless |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | — | — | Serverless |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | — | — | Serverless |
| MAI-Image-2.6-Flash | — | — | Serverless |