Get Started with Orca 2 7B on Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry offers access to Orca 2 7B. 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
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.52 |
| Output tokens | $0.67 |
Capabilities
About Orca 2 7B
Orca 2 7B is a large language model developed by Microsoft, focusing on reasoning tasks and providing precise single-turn responses. It is a fine-tuned version of the LLaMA-2 architecture, trained on a synthetic dataset with enhanced reasoning capabilities, moderated by Microsoft Azure content filters. While adept at handling reasoning over user-provided data, reading comprehension, math problem-solving, and text summarization, it is not optimized for chat applications without further fine-tuning. Orca 2 shows strong performance in zero-shot settings but shares some LLMs' common limitations, including biases and the potential for generating misleading content. Designed primarily for research, its use in production requires careful assessment to mitigate potential harms or biases.