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Azure OpenAI Inference REST API

Data-plane REST API for running inference against deployed Azure OpenAI models, including chat completions, completions, embeddings, image generation, and audio transcription/translation. Authenticate with API key (api-key header) or Microsoft Entra ID bearer token.

Azure OpenAI Inference REST API is one of 8 APIs that Azure OpenAI Service publishes on the APIs.io network, described by an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.

Tagged areas include Inference, Chat Completions, Embeddings, Image Generation, and Audio. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an AsyncAPI specification.

Requests are made against the base URL https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai.

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI
Base URL
https://{your-resource-name}.openai.azure.com/openai

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

azure-openai-asyncapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Azure OpenAI Service publishes across the network.

Azure OpenAI Responses API
Azure OpenAI Control Plane API
Azure OpenAI Service Audio API
Azure OpenAI Service Chat Completions API
Azure OpenAI Service Completions API
Azure OpenAI Service Embeddings API
Azure OpenAI Service Images API