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Azure AI Foundry portal and SDK clients support multiple distinct Azure resource types, each designed to serve different development and operational needs. This article explains which use case requires which type.
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## Resource Types supported with AI Foundry
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## Resource Types supported with AI Foundry Portal and SDK clients
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***Azure AI Foundry** – The primary resource type for designing, deploying, and managing generative AI applications and agents. It provides access to agent service, models that are hosted using a serverless hosting model, evaluations, and Azure OpenAI service. Azure AI Foundry is the recommended resource type for most applications built in Azure AI Foundry.
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***Azure AI Foundry** – The primary resource type for designing, deploying, and managing generative AI applications and agents. It provides access to the supserset of Azure AI capabilities including agent service, models that are hosted using a serverless hosting model, evaluations, AI Services such as Speech and Language service and Azure OpenAI service capablitities. Azure AI Foundry is the recommended resource type for most applications built in Azure AI Foundry.
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Get started by [creating a first AI Foundry resource](../../ai-services/multi-service-resource.md?context=/azure/ai-foundry/context/context).
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***Azure AI Hub** – Use this resource type in combination with Azure AI Foundry to additionally access open-source model hosting and fine-tuning capabilities, as well as Azure Machine Learning capabilities. When you create an AI Hub, an Azure AI Foundry resource is automatically provisioned. Hub resources can be used in both Azure AI Foundry portal and Machine Learning Studio.
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:::image type="content" source="../media/concepts/foundry-resource.png" alt-text="Screenshot shows how AI Foundry resource type provided access to the supser of Azure AI capabilities including agent service, a wide selection of models, and Azure OpenAI capabilities.":::
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***Azure AI Search** – A resource used to index and retrieve data for grounding AI applications. It can be [connected](../how-to/connections-add.md) to Azure AI Foundry agents to enable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search experiences.
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***Azure OpenAI** – A specialized resource type that provides access to OpenAI models such as GPT-4 and GPT-4o. It offers a subset of the capabilities available in Azure AI Foundry and provides solely access to Azure OpenAI APIs. [Upgrade from Azure OpenAI to Azure AI Foundry](../how-to/upgrade-azure-openai.md) to gain access to more capabilities while keeping the existing Azure OpenAI API endpoint, state of work, and security configurations.
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***Azure OpenAI** – A specialized resource type that provides access to OpenAI models such as GPT-4 and GPT-4o. It offers a subset of the capabilities available in Azure AI Foundry and provides solely access to Azure OpenAI models and APIs. [Upgrade from Azure OpenAI to Azure AI Foundry](../how-to/upgrade-azure-openai.md) to gain access to more capabilities while keeping the existing Azure OpenAI API endpoint, state of work, and security configurations.
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***Azure AI Hub** – Use this resource type in combination with your Azure AI Foundry resource to additionally access open-source model hosting and customization capabilities via the Azure Machine Learning APIs.
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In June 2025, we started to move most of Hub's capabilities under "Azure AI Foundry" resource type. This change brings the management of agents, models and tools together for management and governance, and a more cohesive developer experience, under a dedicated Azure resource type for AI Foundry. New features will only release on Azure AI Foundry resource. To learn more, see [migrate from hub-based to Foundry projects](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/how-to/migrate-project?tabs=azure-ai-foundry).
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## References
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*[Azure AI Foundy architecture](architecture.md)
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*[What is Azure Resource Manager?](/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/overview)
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*[Create a first AI Foundry resource](../../ai-services/multi-service-resource.md?context=/azure/ai-foundry/context/context)
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*[Create AI Foundry with advanced options](../how-to/create-resource-template.md)
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