Azure AI Foundry & GPU Virtual Machines
Hyperscaler cloud
Provided by Microsoft Corporation
Offering overview
Exclusive cloud access to OpenAI's GPT series through Azure OpenAI anchors Microsoft's offering, but Azure AI Foundry has grown into a broad catalog that also serves Meta Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Cohere, Phi, xAI Grok and many open models as serverless APIs or on managed compute. Foundry bundles agent service, evaluation, content safety, prompt flow and fine-tuning, with Global, Data Zone and regional deployment types that control where inference runs. For self-managed workloads, NC, ND and NV virtual machine families provide A10, A100, H100, H200 and newer accelerators, and Azure Machine Learning handles distributed training and endpoint hosting. Azure Arc and Azure Local bring parts of the stack on-premises, and the platform ties into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Fabric for data. Regulated enterprises and Microsoft-centric shops gravitate here. Billing is per token or per VM-hour; token rates vary by model and deployment zone and are only displayed interactively on the Azure pricing pages, so no single list price is quoted here.
- Management
- Not stated
- Infrastructure
- Not stated
- Pricing model
- Not stated
- Support
- Not stated
- SLA
- Not stated
- Best for
- Model Inference, Model Training, Fine-Tuning, AI Agents, AI Applications, Vector Search, Batch Processing, Research And Experimentation
Technical specifications
- Containers
- Unknown
- Kubernetes
- Unknown
- Root access
- Unknown
- API access
- Unknown
- Autoscaling
- Unknown
- Persistent processes
- Unknown
AI capabilities
- Model serving
- OpenAI GPT, Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Cohere, Phi, xAI Grok, Black Forest Labs FLUX
- AI frameworks
- Not stated
- Inference endpoints
- Unknown
- Fine-tuning
- Unknown
- Vector database
- Unknown
- Model catalog
- Unknown
- Monitoring
- Not stated
- Evaluation
- Not stated
Security & compliance
No controls are stated.
Geography
Provider headquarters are separate from offering infrastructure and availability.
Infrastructure regions
Global
Data-residency jurisdictions
Global
Service availability
Not stated
Support coverage
Not stated
Available plans
Pricing can change. Promotional prices are shown separately from standard prices.
No active plans are recorded for this offering.
Data sources & provenance
Where this information came from, how it was checked and when it was last looked at. “Last updated” records a change to the record — it does not mean the record was verified.
- Data quality
- Data quality: Unverified
- Primary source
- azure.microsoft.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 7 October 2026
- Last updated
- 7 October 2026