Discover the new Foundry Tools
Foundry Tools
Build cutting-edge, market-ready AI applications with customizable tools, APIs, and models.
Overview
Build intelligent apps with industry-leading AI tools
- Foundry Tools are ready-to-use APIs that give your agents the power to take actions on data. As a core part of Microsoft Foundry, these tools accelerate innovation and reduce complexity, so you can focus on solving real-world problems. Equip your agents with the skills they need to succeed—right out of the box.
- Quickly infuse generative AI into production workloads using studios, SDKs, and APIs.
- Gain a competitive edge by building AI apps powered by foundation models, including those from Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and Cohere.
- Enhance the safety of generative AI applications with advanced guardrails for responsible AI.
Tools
Build with Foundry Tools
Empower your business with flexible AI tools built for real-world impact.
Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools
Accelerate multimodal AI solution development.
Azure Translator in Foundry Tools
Translate documents and text in real time across more than 100 languages.
Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
Use industry-leading tools to build voice agents with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech translation.
Azure Vision in Foundry Tools
Read text, analyze images, and detect faces with optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning.
Azure Language in Foundry Tools
Build conversational interfaces, summarize documents, and analyze text using prebuilt AI-powered features.
Azure Document Intelligence in Foundry Tools
Apply advanced machine learning to extract text, key-value pairs, tables, and structures from documents.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Foundry Tools pricing
Explore flexible, consumption-based pricing for Foundry Tools—a unified platform of models, agents, and tools. Each component offers tailored pricing options to meet your development and deployment needs.
RELATED PRODUCTS
Azure products work better together
Build comprehensive solutions using Foundry Tools and other Azure AI products.
Azure Content Understanding
Accelerate the transformation of multimodal data into insights.
Azure Language
Build conversational interfaces, summarize documents, and analyze text using prebuilt AI-powered features.
Azure Speech
Build generative AI apps faster using prebuilt or customizable speech AI models.
Azure Document Intelligence
Accelerate information extraction from documents.
Azure Translator
Translate documents and text in real-time or in batches across more than 100 languages for global reach.
Microsoft Foundry
Design, customize, and manage AI apps and agents at scale.
Find your AI solution
Discover Foundry Tools—a portfolio of AI tools designed to build agents quickly.
CUSTOMER STORIES
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Resources
Learn more about Foundry Tools
Research
The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Microsoft Azure AI
Learn about the potential ROI of deploying Azure AI in your organization—read the 2023 Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft.
Documentation
Foundry Tools overview
Explore concepts, development options, and support.
Blog
Foundry Blog
Read up on product announcements, partnerships, and how-to articles.
Video
The AI Show
Catch up on what’s available in Foundry and watch demos and discussions of new product capabilities.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Foundry Tools are Microsoft’s suite of prebuilt AI capabilities—Vision, Speech, Language, Translator, Content Understanding, and Document Intelligence—designed to help organizations quickly add advanced AI features to their apps and agents. These tools are fully managed, scalable, and part of the unified Microsoft Foundry platform, making it easier to innovate and transform business processes.
- Foundry Tools is the new name for the product collection previously known as Azure AI Services or Azure Cognitive Services.
Foundry Tools are part of the broader Foundry platform, which unifies models, agents, and tools under one developer-friendly experience. - Each service has pricing that is customizable to the application or use case.
- Foundry Tools have a lower barrier to entry and are designed for all types of users, while Azure machine learning is primarily aimed toward data scientists who are looking to design a more bespoke solution.
Account signup
Choose the Azure account that’s right for you
Pay as you go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.
Next steps
Explore Foundry Tools
Start a project in Foundry.
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