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Using Claude Opus 4.8 on Microsoft Foundry

Implementation guide · Claude 4.8 · Anthropic

Serverless

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Microsoft Foundry and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call claude-opus-4-8 — see the documentation for request format.

Code Examples

See Microsoft Foundry documentation for integration details.

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 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.

Pricing on Microsoft Foundry

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch API

About Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's flagship Claude 4.8 model, released May 28, 2026 for agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, computer use, and professional knowledge work. It supports text and image inputs, adaptive reasoning, tool use, structured outputs, computer-use tools, prompt caching, Batch API, Dynamic Workflows parallel subagents, a 1M-token context window on Anthropic API/Bedrock/Vertex, and 128K max output. Key datapack rows: SWE-bench Pro 69.2%, SWE-bench Verified 88.6%, Terminal-Bench 2.1 74.6%, HLE with tools 57.9%, OSWorld-Verified 83.4%, GDPval-AA 1890 Elo, and MCP-Atlas 82.2%. Standard Anthropic API pricing is $5/M input and $25/M output.

Model Specs

Released2026-05-28
Context1m
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2026-01

Provider

Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States