Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry) vs Databricks Mosaic AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Microsoft Foundry (formerly Azure AI Foundry)
Microsoft's Azure hub for enterprise models and agents
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Databricks Mosaic AI
Build and serve models next to your lakehouse data
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Free tier | No advertised free tier; usage bills from first request under the default S0 tier | 14-day trial with $400 usage credit; a no-cost 'Free Edition' also available via email signup |
| Paid from | — | DBU-based, from ~$0.07-0.08/DBU for model serving |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 1975 | 2013 |
| Maker | Microsoft Corporation | Databricks, Inc. (from MosaicML, acquired 2023) |
| Verdict | Renamed from Azure AI Foundry to Microsoft Foundry in January 2026 — the name changed, the product and your deployments didn't. It's Microsoft's enterprise AI hub: a model catalog that now spans OpenAI, Anthropic's Claud... |
Mosaic AI's whole argument is data gravity: train, fine-tune, and serve models where your data already lives instead of exporting it to a separate AI platform. It's the generative-AI layer of the Databricks lakehouse — M... |
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