Using CodeLlama 70B Python 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-python— 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 Python
CodeLlama 70B Python is a specialized AI model by Meta, designed for Python code synthesis and understanding. With 70 billion parameters, it excels in code completion, infilling, and instruction following tasks. The model leverages an optimized transformer architecture and has been fine-tuned with up to 16,000 tokens, making it particularly effective for Python-centric development workflows. While it doesn't support long contexts of 100,000 tokens, it offers powerful capabilities for both commercial and research applications in Python programming environments. More details can be found in the research paper "Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code" .