Quick Start
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- 2Use the Microsoft Foundry SDK or REST API to call
solar-10.7b— see the documentation for request format. - 3You'll be billed $0.52/1M input, $0.67/1M 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 | $0.52 |
| Output tokens | $0.67 |
Capabilities
About SOLAR 10.7B
SOLAR 10.7B is a robust large language model created by Upstage AI in South Korea, featuring 10.7 billion parameters. It is tailored for high efficiency and performance through its innovative "Depth Up-Scaling" (DUS) approach, which deepens the model's layers rather than widening them, allowing for enhanced capabilities without significantly increasing computational costs. This method distinguishes it from other models that utilize more complex techniques like Mixture of Experts. By integrating pre-trained weights from the Mistral 7B model with the Llama 2 framework, SOLAR 10.7B achieves notable performance, outpacing even some models with up to 30 billion parameters. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, it also includes a finely-tuned instruction-based variant under CC-BY-NC-4.0, optimized for single-turn conversations and diverse NLP tasks, albeit with limitations in handling multi-turn dialogue and complex context. The model is grounded in the transformer architecture, widely adopted in advanced language models.