Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry is a developer platform for building, running, observing, and governing AI agents across an organization. The blog describes new and existing Foundry capabilities for cost attribution, token quotas/rate limits, traces/evaluations, and an ROI feature in private preview that links agent outcomes to costs.
What it does
Teams can use Foundry to build and manage AI agents, observe token and model usage, enforce request-time limits, and measure agent ROI to support cost and value decisions.
- Availability
- Public preview
- Pricing model
- not stated
- Deployment
- cloud-hosted (Foundry Control Plane)
- Privacy
- integrates with Microsoft Purview and Defender for Cloud for compliance
- Licence
- Not established
Capability
Modality
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Deployment
Pricing
Target user
Evidence
9 claims- Foundry provides traces that capture model calls, tool invocations, retries, latency, token consumption, and costs for an agent run. [1]
Tracing in Foundry captures tool usage, retries, latency, token consumption, and costs for an agent run.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Foundry Control Plane can enforce tokens-per-minute rate limits and total token quotas for model deployments at the project scope, returning 429 or 403 responses when limits are exceeded. [1]
With AI Gateway configured, Foundry Control Plane can enforce tokens-per-minute rate limits and total token quotas for model deployments at the project scope.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Project-level cost attribution is available and currently in preview for models sold by Microsoft Azure, including Azure OpenAI. [1]
This capability is currently in preview for models sold by Microsoft Azure , including Azure OpenAI .
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Foundry integrates Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Purview to apply compliance and security controls. [1]
It’s where developers build, test, and optimize, and Foundry Control Plane gives them an operating view of everything they’ve shipped, from cost trends and anomalies to token usage and lifecycle controls, with Azure Policy , Microsoft Defender , and Microsoft Purview woven in so compliance and security aren’t an afterthought.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - An ROI feature (currently in private preview) tracks outcomes, assigns business value, and attributes model and tool costs to calculate value generated, total cost, net value, and ROI. [1]
- Insights in Foundry is in public preview. [2]
Insights in Foundry , now in public preview, helps teams understand what is happening in production.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Insights analyzes production traces. [2]
Turn production insights into continuous improvement across agent quality, latency, and cost.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Insights gathers evidence and points to likely causes for issues it surfaces. [2]
For each issue, it gathers the supporting evidence, points to the likely cause, and recommends what to do next, so teams know where to focus before a small problem becomes a widespread one.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Insights recommends what teams should do next. [2]
Insights in Foundry , now in public preview, helps teams understand what is happening in production.
Microsoft. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights.
Sources
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-economics-of-agent-optimization-how-ai-agent-governance-controls-cost-and-proves-roi/
Retrieved 2026-10-27 01:28 UTC
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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ship-agents-faster-with-expanded-model-choice-voice-agents-and-continuous-optimization/
Retrieved 2026-09-25 13:50 UTC
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Versions
4| Version | Effective | Change | Changed fields | State |
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| 4 | 2026-10-25 00:47 UTC | evidence update | score | Current |
| 3 | 2026-10-11 01:11 UTC | evidence update | score | Current |
| 2 | 2026-09-25 13:50 UTC | major release | availability, release | Current |
| 1 | 2026-09-23 17:23 UTC | publication | None | Current |
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