Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft's unified open-source agent framework (merging Semantic Kernel and AutoGen) for building multi-agent systems, integrated with Azure AI Foundry.
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How the product is positioned
Microsoft's unified open-source agent framework (merging Semantic Kernel and AutoGen) for building multi-agent systems, integrated with Azure AI Foundry.
Our summary of the vendor’s positioning — verbatim claim not yet recordedWhat we found
Level 1 · assistive
Seeded at the rubric default. No independent evidence of end-to-end task completion has been reviewed yet, so the lowest grade applies until it is.
Any human checkpoint here is a product setting, not a regulatory requirement — confirm how it is configured for your deployment.
Graded 2026-08-01 · re-check 2026-11-01
Procurement detail
- Deployment
- saasvendor documentation
- Compliance
- SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · FedRAMP Highreport dates not disclosed — request before signing
- Integrations
- Azure AI Foundry claim unverifiedMicrosoft 365 Copilot claim unverifiedGitHub claim unverified
- Pricing
- usageFramework is open-source/free; billed via underlying Azure AI Foundry model/compute consumption.
- Human checkpoint
- Requiredproduct setting
- Named customers
- Enterprise Azure customers broadlyfrom cited sources
Will they still be here?
- Funding
- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)
- Founded
- 2023
- HQ
- Redmond, USA
- Ownership
- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Sources
Logo retrieved 2026-08-01from the vendor’s own site · trademark of Microsoft
- learn.microsoft.comVendor-published · retrieved 2026-08-01
Every source here is vendor-published. That is why this entry is not graded high confidence.
Where it’s weak
History of framework fragmentation (Semantic Kernel vs AutoGen) created migration churn for early adopters.
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