Using CodeLlama 70B on Microsoft Foundry
Implementation guide · Code Llama · AI at Meta
Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
codellama-70b— see the documentation for request format. - 3You'll be billed $3.78/1M input, $11.34/1M output tokens.
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
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $3.78 |
| Output tokens | $11.34 |
Capabilities
About CodeLlama 70B
CodeLlama 70B is a state-of-the-art generative text model by Meta, specifically designed for code synthesis and understanding. It utilizes an auto-regressive transformer architecture and has been fine-tuned with up to 16,000 tokens, supporting inference with up to 100,000 tokens. The model excels in code completion, infilling, and instruction following, making it versatile for various programming languages and applications. With 70 billion parameters, it offers advanced capabilities for general code generation tasks, while also providing specialized variants for Python and instruction-following. Intended for both commercial and research use, CodeLlama 70B aims to assist developers in generating code, understanding programming concepts, and enhancing productivity in software development .