Looking Beyond Azure AI Foundry?

Foundry gives you the models Azure hosts — after you create resources, deployments, and quotas. OffRail gives you every major lab and cloud — including Azure itself — behind one OpenAI-compatible API. No provisioning required.

Cloud-NeutralNo Deployments or QuotasAzure Built In
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Every model on Foundry — without the Azure ceremony

Compare OffRail and Azure AI Foundry features side by side

Why choose OffRail?

No cloud lock-in — Azure is one of 40+ providers behind a single OpenAI-compatible API
No deployments or quotas — call any model instantly, no provisioning or TPM planning
Four modalities — image, video, audio and chat behind one key
Keep your Azure setup — bring your Azure credentials and route through Foundry with 0% markup

OffRail

MULTI-PROVIDER & CLOUD-NEUTRAL

From $0

Transparent per-request pricing

Azure AI Foundry

MICROSOFT AI PLATFORM

Usage-based

Requires an Azure subscription

Cloud-neutral

Use any provider on any cloud — or none at all

Azure only

OpenAI-compatible API

One request format across every model

Varies by model

Setup required

What you need before your first request

Sign up, copy a key
Azure subscription, resource, deployments

Providers behind one API

Clouds, labs, and fast independent hosts

40+ providers
Azure-hosted catalog

Frontier model coverage

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and more

All major labs
No Google Gemini

Fast inference hosts

Groq, Cerebras, and other speed-focused providers

No deployment management

Call any model without provisioning it first

Deployments + TPM quotas

Automatic provider routing

Routes on live uptime, throughput, price, and latency

Model router (OpenAI models)

Failover across providers

Transparent retry on a healthy provider — even another cloud

Response caching

Built-in caching for repeated requests

Redis, 10s–1yr TTL
Prompt caching (select models)

Route to Azure

Keep Azure OpenAI and Foundry models in the mix

Built-in providers
—

Bring your own keys

Use your own provider credentials

0% markup
N/A (Azure billing)

Transparent platform fee

Predictable, easy-to-reason-about pricing

5% or 0% (BYOK)
Provider rates + PTU reservations

Real-time cost analytics

Per-request cost, latency, and usage in one dashboard

Azure Monitor / Cost Management

Guardrails

Prompt injection, PII, jailbreak, and secret detection

Already on Azure? Keep it — and stop depending on it.

Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry are built-in OffRail providers. Bring your Azure credentials and your traffic keeps flowing with 0% markup — while every request gains automatic failover to other providers, response caching, guardrails, and per-request cost analytics. When you need a model Foundry doesn't host, it's already behind the same API.

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No credit card required • Self-host option available • Enterprise support included

FAQ

OffRail vs Azure AI Foundry

Common questions about using OffRail alongside or instead of Azure AI Foundry.

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Yes. Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry are built-in OffRail providers. Bring your Azure credentials and route your Azure traffic through the gateway with 0% markup — you keep your Microsoft agreements and compliance posture while gaining cross-provider failover, caching, and unified analytics on top.