--- title: A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality... description: Building production AI systems requires more than model access — it demands a disciplined operating lifecycle. This guide covers five stages for managing AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-managing-models-cost-and-quality-in-microsoft-foundry-cvryjaiea twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry | daily.dev og:description: Building production AI systems requires more than model access — it demands a disciplined operating lifecycle. This guide covers five stages for managing AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-developer-s-guide-to-managing-models-cost-and-quality-in-microsoft-foundry-cvryjaiea og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cVryJAieA.png og:image:alt: A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry **[Microsoft Azure](https://daily.dev/sources/azure)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Building production AI systems requires more than model access — it demands a disciplined operating lifecycle. This guide covers five stages for managing AI models in Microsoft Foundry: selecting models by workload fit (not leaderboard rank), validating with custom evals and real data, optimizing cost via routing/batching/caching, operating at scale with governance and observability, and continuously improving as models and requirements evolve. Fireworks AI on Foundry is now generally available, offering open model inference through a single Azure endpoint with enterprise SLAs. The platform processed over 176 billion tokens across 17 S&P 500 enterprises during preview. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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