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AI Gateway tier of API Management now in public preview

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vladvino
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Jul 27, 2026

An AI-focused experience for publishing and governing models and MCP servers.

Today, we are introducing the AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management, now in public preview. It gives platform teams a purpose-built experience built specifically for AI workloads - publishing and g...
Updated Jul 27, 2026
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Manan_Choksi
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Aug 04, 2026

Wow, that’s an interesting announcement! What’s the main difference between onboarding an AI foundry in APIM by adding API versus integrating an AI gateway into the AI foundry? Is that the same thing? What are the key differences?? 

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Aug 07, 2026

Thanks! They are functionally the same (for example both proxy all deployments in the imported or linked Foundry resource) but the latter provides a more integrated experience for setting rate limits and applying gateway on a per-project basis.