{"id":610,"date":"2025-05-19T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/?p=610"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:43:52","slug":"announcing-grok-3-and-grok-3-mini-on-azure-ai-foundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/foundry\/announcing-grok-3-and-grok-3-mini-on-azure-ai-foundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on Azure AI Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Microsoft and xAI are thrilled to unveil the availability of Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini into the Azure AI Foundry Models, marking a significant milestone in AI accessibility and innovation. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This collaboration combines xAI\u2019s cutting-edge models with Azure\u2019s enterprise-ready infrastructure, giving developers access to Grok 3\u2019s advanced capabilities in a secure, scalable environment.\u00a0 Grok models enable a range of enterprise scenarios with advanced capabilities in reasoning, coding, and visual processing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Starting today, xAI\u2019s flagship Grok 3 models<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u202f<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">are available for a free preview in Azure Foundry for the next 2 weeks. Grok models are also available to try on GitHub models.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>Expanding the AI Ecosystem<\/h3>\n<p><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">Azure AI Foundry Models is a hub that hosts a wide range of models from <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">Microsoft<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">, <\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeRest CommentHighlightRest SCXW36624242 BCX8\">partners<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightRest SCXW36624242 BCX8\"> and community<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightPipeRest SCXW36624242 BCX8\"><strong>.<\/strong> In fact, the model catalog features hundreds of foundation models across various providers \u2013 from OpenAI and Meta to Cohere, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">more. The<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\"> addition of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">xAI\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\"> Grok 3 underscores <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">Microsoft\u2019s commitment to<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\"> support <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">an open, diverse AI ecosystem<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">, rather than relying on a single model provider. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW36624242 BCX8\">Grok 3\u2019s arrival on Azure AI Foundry Models is a testament to that vision, bringing a fresh new model into the fold and expanding the toolkit available to developers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>What is Grok?<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">Grok, developed by <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">xAI<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">, is a family of large language models designed to push the boundaries of AI innovation and accelerate human scientific discovery. According to <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">xAI<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">, Grok 3, the flagship model, blends unparalleled reasoning with vast pretraining knowledge, honed on <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">xAI\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\"> Colossus supercluster with 10x the compute power of prior leading models. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">Grok 3 models<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW114438053 BCX8\">excel in reasoning, mathematics, coding, world knowledge, and instruction-following, setting a new standard for enterprise AI. Grok 3 Mini, a lightweight yet powerful thinking model, is optimized for logic-based tasks, delivering efficiency without compromise.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Key features of Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"12\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:1,&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Advanced reasoning with reinforcement learning:\u00a0<\/strong>Grok 3 Mini&#8217;s advanced reasoning capabilities, powered by large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) enable it to tackle complex problems with great accuracy. Grok 3 Mini can backtrack, correct errors, and explore multiple solution paths\u2014delivering transparent, actionable insights for enterprises through its chain-of-thought reasoning.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"12\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:1,&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Deep domain expertise: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">With deep domain expertise in finance, healthcare, law and science, Grok 3 excels at enterprise tasks like financial forecasting, medical diagnosis support, legal document analysis, and scientific research assistance\u2014delivering precise, domain-specific solutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"13\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:1,&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Extended Context Length<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: With an extended context length of up to 131K tokens, Grok processes and understands vast datasets in a single pass\u2014ideal for comprehensive analysis of large documents or complex workflows.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reasoning effort parameter:<\/strong> For more fine-grained control over the model\u2019s performance, Grok 3 Mini supports the reasoning effort parameter, which allows users to adjust the model\u2019s thinking effort with options for low and high reasoning levels.<\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"13\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:1,&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Structured outputs: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">xAI\u2019s Grok 3 models support structured outputs, enabling developers to specify JSON schemas for AI-powered automations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"13\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335551671&quot;:1,&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559683&quot;:0,&quot;335559684&quot;:-1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Functions and Tools support:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Like other Azure AI Foundry Models, Grok 3 models support functions and external tools that enable enterprises to build agentic workflows.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:1080,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276,&quot;335559991&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW52490437 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW52490437 BCX8\">Performance<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/news\/grok-3\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">According to X.ai<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini have demonstrated exceptional results on several academic and real-world benchmarks:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Grok 3: <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">60% on AIME 2025 (math competition)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">79.1% on GPQA (graduate-level reasoning)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">65.5% on LiveCodeBench (code generation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">91.1% on IFEval (instruction following)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">77.4% on TauBench-Retail (agentic shopping)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">43.0% on TauBench-Airline (agentic flight booking)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">83.1% on MMLU-pro (multi-task language understanding)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Grok 3 Mini: <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">90.7% on AIME 2025 (math competition)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">80.3% on GPQA (graduate-level reasoning)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">74.8% on LiveCodeBench (code generation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\u25cf\" data-font=\"Arial\" data-listid=\"11\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769242&quot;:[65533,0,46],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\u25cf&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">82.8% on MMLU-pro (multi-task language understanding)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149378004 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149378004 BCX8\">Seamless Access to Grok 3 via Azure AI Foundry<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is easy for developers to start using Grok 3 on <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Azure AI Foundry Models<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> where you can easily discover, deploy, and manage AI models. Grok 3 now appears in the catalog alongside other foundation models. Just as you would with an OpenAI or Hugging Face model, you can quickly find Grok 3\u2019s model card (with details and benchmarks) and deploy it in a few clicks<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For integration into applications, flexible deployment options are supported for models available direct from Microsoft in Azure AI Foundry:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Standard<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (Pay-Go)\u2013 You can call Grok 3 as a managed API endpoint (pay-per-token). No infrastructure to manage: just send your prompts to the Azure endpoint and get responses. This is great for getting started quickly or for scaling on-demand without upfront provisioning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"3\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Azure AI Foundry Provisioned Throughput (PTUs)<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> \u2013 <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Grok 3 will soon support PTU deployments on Azure.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> This means you can reserve a fixed throughput capacity for the model, allowing you access to dedicated resources to handle a certain rate of requests. Provisioned throughput deployments provide predictable latency and performance by allocating processing power in advance. For production scenarios where you expect steady high volume or need strict latency, provisioning Grok 3 with PTUs can be cost-effective and reliable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pricing<\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Starting May 19, Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini models will be available at no cost in Azure AI Foundry Models for a limited free preview. Customers can explore and test both models free of charge through early June.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Beginning in June, pricing as shown in table below will apply for Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini deployments in Azure AI Foundry.<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"font-weight: 400; width: 95.8514%; height: 154px;\" data-tablestyle=\"MsoNormalTable\" data-tablelook=\"1184\" aria-rowcount=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 48px;\" aria-rowindex=\"1\">\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><strong>Model\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><strong>Input Pricing in USD (1M Tokens)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 48px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><strong>Output Pricing in USD (1M Tokens)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px;\" aria-rowindex=\"2\">\n<td style=\"height: 10px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><strong>Grok 3\u00a0<\/strong><strong>(Global)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 10px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$3<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 10px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$15<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Grok 3 Mini (Global)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$0.25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$1.27<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\" aria-rowindex=\"4\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><strong>Grok 3 (DataZone)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$3.30<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\" data-celllook=\"4369\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$16.50<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Grok 3 Mini (DataZone)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$0.275<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span data-contrast=\"auto\">$1.38<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW148416295 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW148416295 BCX8\">Enterprise-Grade Features: Scale, Safety, and Observability<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">When you use Grok 3 through Azure AI Foundry, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">you\u2019re<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\"> not just getting raw model access \u2013 <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">you\u2019re<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\"> getting a <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">whole suite of tools and services<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\"> to support your AI application\u2019s lifecycle. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">R<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">unning Grok 3 on Azure comes with the same level of <\/span><\/span><strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\">enterprise readiness<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW149216198 BCX8\"> that developers expect. Here are a few key benefits:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Scalable Deployments with PTUs:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Coming soon in early June you will be able to deploy Grok 3 with provisioned throughput units for mission-critical workloads. This allows you to have dedicated processing capacity\u00a0 and stable performance even under heavy load. You can scale up or down the PTU allocation based on your needs, and Azure will handle the backend hardware management. For developers, this means less time worrying about infrastructure and more time building features. If your application usage is sporadic or in early stages, you can start with the standard serverless mode (pay-go) and later upgrade to PTUs once you have predictable traffic. Azure\u2019s flexibility here supports both experimentation and production scaling.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Built-in Content Safety Controls: <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Azure<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> provides granular content safety tools to keep outputs from Grok 3 models and other Azure AI Foundry Models compliant with your requirements. Azure AI Foundry integrates with the Azure AI Content Safety service, which can detect and filter content that violates predefined policies (for hate, violence, sexual content, etc. You have the option to enable content filtering on Grok 3\u2019s responses via serverless inference APIs, or to route outputs through content moderation APIs for managed deployments. Essentially, you can dial the safety settings up or down to match your use case \u2013 whether you want maximum openness for research or strict guardrails for a customer-facing app. All content filtering and policy enforcement is handled within Azure\u2019s trusted framework, so you can confidently deploy Grok 3 in sensitive or regulated environments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"2\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Observability and Monitoring:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Azure AI Foundry offers observability for all deployed models, including Grok 3. Out of the box, you can monitor usage metrics like token consumption, request rates, and latency through Azure Monitor. Even more, Azure AI Foundry integrates with Azure Monitor Application Insights to provide deep telemetry and tracing of your AI calls.\u00a0 Developers can instrument their applications with the Azure AI tracing SDK (which supports OpenTelemetry standards) to log detailed traces of each request\/response, and then visualize this data in Application Insights dashboards. This means you can track how Grok 3 is performing in real time \u2013 spotting errors, measuring response quality, and even setting up alerts (for example, to notify you if response time exceeds a threshold or if content safety flags a high-severity issue). Continuous evaluation tools are also available: Azure AI Foundry lets you define evaluation metrics and run them against the model\u2019s outputs continuously. In short, you get a full GenAI Ops toolkit so that your\u00a0Grok 3-powered application is reliable, safe, and high-quality over time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW28843224 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW28843224 BCX8\">By combining Grok 3\u2019s raw capabilities with Azure\u2019s enterprise features, developers can confidently move from prototype to production. You get the best of both worlds: a model that pushes the envelope of what AI can do, and a platform that mitigates the risks and challenges of using such a model in real apps.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW28843224 BCX8\">\u202f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"TextRun SCXW170764137 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW170764137 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"heading 2\">Get Started with Grok 3 Today<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW199053522 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW199053522 BCX8\">The launch of Grok 3 on Azure AI Foundry Models is an exciting development for the AI developer community. It combines the bold innovation of xAI\u2019s model with the robust tools of Azure\u2019s platform. Whether you\u2019re building intelligent assistants, processing large documents, or exploring new AI frontiers, Grok 3 gives you a powerful new option to consider. Head over to Azure AI Foundry and give Grok 3 a try \u2013 we can\u2019t wait to see what you build with it! <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW199053522 BCX8\">Get started with <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW199053522 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/ai.azure.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW199053522 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW199053522 BCX8\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Azure AI Foundry.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more about the launch of Grok 3 on Azure AI Foundry Models. 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