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Using Grok 4 on Microsoft Foundry

Implementation guide · Grok 4 · xAI

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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 grok-4 — 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 Caching

About Grok 4

Original Grok 4 API model (grok-4-0709) with 256K context, reasoning, text and image input, function calling, structured outputs, live browsing, and code execution support. xAI lists May 15, 2026 as the API retirement date for this model; new integrations should use Grok 4.3.

Model Specs

Released2025-07-09
Context256k
ArchitectureDecoder Only

Provider

Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States