Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
dbrx-instruct— see the documentation for request format. - 3You'll be billed $2.70/1M input, $2.70/1M 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 | $2.70 |
| Output tokens | $2.70 |
Capabilities
About DBRX Instruct
DBRX Instruct, developed by Databricks, is a cutting-edge large language model designed for various natural language processing tasks. It excels in text summarization, question answering, information extraction, and code generation, utilizing a fine-grained mixture-of-experts architecture with 132 billion parameters. With advanced features like rotary position encodings, gated linear units, and grouped query attention, it performs exceptionally across multiple benchmarks, even outperforming some closed-source models. Trained on a vast 12 trillion token dataset, it supports contexts up to 32,000 tokens. Although primarily effective in English, its multilingual strength isn't fully explored. Users should be cautious as it may generate inaccurate or biased outputs.