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Foundry Agent Service

API service

by Microsoft

Managed service for building, deploying and orchestrating enterprise AI agents with tool calling, state management and multi-turn conversations.

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The overview page cited as this record's `url` (learn.microsoft.com/./agents/overview) is a conceptual page with no dollar/billing sentence — the prior note's claim was inherited from Content Safety/Observability's facts, not this page's own text. Re-fetched Azure's actual Foundry Agent Service pricing page instead (linked from azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ai-foundry/, live 2026-09-14): "There is no additional charge for creating or running Foundry-native agents using prompts and workflows"; hosted agents "are billed based on the underlying container compute consumed per hour." Two-tier mechanism, distinct from every other Foundry sibling. Recurring free access is not stated either way.

What it does

• Agent orchestration

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Pricing

Pricing page · 14 Sep 2026

The overview page cited as this record's url (learn.microsoft.com/./agents/overview) is a conceptual page with no dollar/billing sentence — the prior note's claim was inherited from Content Safety/Observability's facts, not this page's own text. Re-fetched Azure's actual Foundry Agent Service pricing page instead (linked from azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ai-foundry/, live 2026-09-14): "There is no additional charge for creating or running Foundry-native agents using prompts and workflows"; hosted agents "are billed based on the underlying container compute consumed per hour." Two-tier mechanism, distinct from every other Foundry sibling.

Description

Official documentation · 14 Sep 2026

What it does

Official documentation · 14 Sep 2026

Sold within

Pricing page · 14 Sep 2026

Azure's own Agent Service pricing page, live 2026-09-14: "There is no additional charge for creating or running Foundry-native agents using prompts and workflows" (hosted agents are billed separately by container-compute hour) — own evidence, not the Content Safety/Observability composite the record previously carried.

Name

Official documentation · 14 Sep 2026

URL

Official documentation · 14 Sep 2026

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