--- title: Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP... description: Microsoft announced major AI gateway expansions in Azure API Management at Build 2026. Key additions include a Unified Model API (public preview) that lets... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/azure-api-management-ships-unified-model-api-and-mcp-content-safety-at-build-2026-y9tewenwt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Microsoft announced major AI gateway expansions in Azure API Management at Build 2026. Key additions include a Unified Model API (public preview) that lets... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/azure-api-management-ships-unified-model-api-and-mcp-content-safety-at-build-2026-y9tewenwt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Y9TeWenWt.png og:image:alt: Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026 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. # Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026 **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Microsoft announced major AI gateway expansions in Azure API Management at Build 2026. Key additions include a Unified Model API (public preview) that lets clients use a single OpenAI Chat Completions format while APIM transparently transforms requests to Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, and other backends — enabling provider swaps without client code changes. Content safety policies now extend beyond LLM traffic to cover MCP tool-call arguments, MCP response text, and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) payloads, with category-based filtering and prompt-injection shield support. Token metrics expanded to track reasoning, cached, and audio tokens across providers including Microsoft Foundry, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI. The Azure API Center MCP server reached GA, acting as a unified discovery endpoint for agents. APIM can also expose existing REST APIs as MCP servers, making legacy enterprise APIs agent-callable without rebuilding them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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