Use various open source models hosted on Azure’s infrastructure. Learn more here.

Azure AI Foundry provides access to models like Phi, Llama, Mistral, Cohere and more.

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Authentication

Navigate to Azure AI Foundry on the Azure Portal and create a service. Then set your environment variables:

export AZURE_API_KEY=***
export AZURE_ENDPOINT=***  # Of the form https://<your-host-name>.<your-azure-region>.models.ai.azure.com/models
# Optional:
# export AZURE_API_VERSION=***

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Example

Use AzureAIFoundry with your Agent:

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.models.azure import AzureAIFoundry

agent = Agent(
    model=AzureAIFoundry(id="Phi-4"),
    markdown=True
)

# Print the response on the terminal
agent.print_response("Share a 2 sentence horror story.")

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Advanced Examples

View more examples here.

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Parameters

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
idstr-The specific model ID used for generating responses. This field is required.
namestr"AzureOpenAI"The name identifier for the agent.
providerstr"Azure"The provider of the model.
api_keyOptional[str]"None"The API key for authenticating requests to the Azure OpenAI service.
api_versionstr"2024-10-21"The version of the Azure OpenAI API to use.
azure_endpointOptional[str]"None"The endpoint URL for the Azure OpenAI service.
clientOptional[ChatCompletionsClient]NoneThe client for making requests to the Azure OpenAI service.
async_clientOptional[AsyncChatCompletionsClient]NoneThe asynchronous client for making requests to the Azure OpenAI service.
temperatureOptional[float]NoneControls randomness in the model's output. Higher values make output more random.
max_tokensOptional[int]NoneThe maximum number of tokens to generate in the response.
frequency_penaltyOptional[float]NoneReduces repetition by penalizing tokens based on their frequency.
presence_penaltyOptional[float]NoneReduces repetition by penalizing tokens that have appeared at all.
top_pOptional[float]NoneControls diversity by limiting cumulative probability of tokens considered.
stopOptional[Union[str, List[str]]]NoneSequences where the model will stop generating further tokens.
seedOptional[int]NoneRandom seed for deterministic outputs.
model_extrasOptional[Dict[str, Any]]NoneAdditional model-specific parameters.
request_paramsOptional[Dict[str, Any]]NoneAdditional parameters to pass with the request.
timeoutOptional[float]NoneTimeout in seconds for API requests.
max_retriesOptional[int]NoneMaximum number of retries for failed requests.
http_clientOptional[httpx.Client]NoneCustom HTTP client for making requests.
client_paramsOptional[Dict[str, Any]]NoneAdditional parameters for client configuration.

AzureAIFoundry is a subclass of the Model class and has access to the same params.