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Microsoft Foundry hosted agents (East US)

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Free allowance
not published
Verdict
caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost
free tier
Identity
cardcard required, phone required
Binding limit
request-rateagent runtime billed per vCPU-hour and per GiB-hour
Evidence
reported4 sources; a third party said so
Freshness
stale on 2026-11-17checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-11-17
Free tiernot published
unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • request-rate (binding) agent runtime billed per vCPU-hour and per GiB-hour source
  • per-object-cap 1 GB of file-search vector storage free, then billed per GB per day source
Identitycard A card and a phone number, because a hosted agent bills through an Azure subscription. Azure's signup FAQ: 'All you need is a phone number, a credit card or a debit card (non-prepaid), and a Microsoft account or a GitHub account.' A second gate on the card: 'Only credit cards are accepted in Hong Kong and Brazil.' The account itself is a Microsoft or GitHub one: 'You can sign up with either a Microsoft account or a GitHub account.' Country limit, quoted: 'Azure free account, free services, and $200 credit don’t include sovereign cloud products in US Government, Azure China, and Azure Germany regions.'
Egressnot stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Interfaceunknown
Toolingnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence notereported the Foundry Agent Service pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and lists the meters, with 1 GB of vector storage free.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 1
  • per-object-cap 1 GB
Evidence 4
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/foundry-agent-servnot published
2026-10-22azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/foundry-agent-serv'File Search Storage: $-/GB of vector-storage per day (1 GB free)' and the vCPU-hour and GiB-hour meters, quoted; the page states no agent-runtime free allowance
2026-11-02azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-faq/the Azure subscription that bills a hosted agent takes a phone number and a credit or non-prepaid debit card at signup
2026-11-02azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/free-account-faq/a Microsoft or GitHub account is the base identity, and the card and phone number sit on top of it
More fields 4
keep rate1.0
billing modelunclassified
session cap{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no session cap published; the meters run while the agent is hosted"}
free tier kindone-time-credit
Unknown values 9
  • chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
  • retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field