Using Nous Llama 3 8B on Microsoft Foundry

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 nous-llama3-8b — see the documentation for request format.
3. 3
   You'll be billed $0.37/1M input, $1.10/1M 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.

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About Nous Llama 3 8B

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