Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
claude-3.5-sonnet— see the documentation for request format.
About Microsoft Foundry
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.
Microsoft Foundry is a unified enterprise AI platform that significantly expands beyond Azure OpenAI. It functions as a multi-provider hosting and deployment platform for LLMs, supporting models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, xAI, Meta, Mistral, NVIDIA, and others. Foundry integrates agent services, evaluation, observability, and governance into a single Azure control plane. Key capabilities include a multi-provider model catalog, Model Router for intelligent prompt routing, Foundry Agent Service for building and deploying AI agents with built-in tracing and monitoring, and enterprise-grade governance with RBAC, compliance, and regional deployments. For broader model catalog including Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Llama, Mistral, and NVIDIA Nemotron, Foundry is the recommended platform over Azure OpenAI.
Pricing on Microsoft Foundry
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About Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the latest in Anthropic's line of large language models, merges state-of-the-art reasoning, coding, and natural language understanding capabilities with advanced multi-modal processing. Released in October 2024, it excels in benchmarks against previous models and competitors, thanks to its scalable attention mechanisms and massive neural network architecture. Its dynamic routing enables specialization in various tasks, supporting applications from software development and data analysis to customer support and content creation. Users benefit from its "Artifacts" feature for real-time collaborative workflows and can access the model through platforms like Claude.ai and APIs at competitive pricing rates.