product
Data quality: Editorially ReviewedRetrieval & data layer
Software & technology
Workflow orchestration
Freemium
Data & Retrieval
SaaS (vendor-hosted)
Retrieval & semantic search
Azure AI Search
Data & Retrieval
Overview
Azure AI Search is Microsoft's managed search and retrieval service, formerly called Cognitive Search, commonly combined with Azure OpenAI for enterprise RAG. It supports vector search, hybrid search, semantic ranking, Microsoft 365 integration, Purview, Sentinel, On Your Data, and regulated Azure deployments.
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Deployment
- SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Retrieval & data layer, Software & technology, Workflow orchestration, Freemium, Data & Retrieval, SaaS (vendor-hosted), Retrieval & semantic search
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
Use cases
Workflow orchestration
Deployment options
SaaS (vendor-hosted)
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- azure.microsoft.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 28 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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