Azure AI Inference SDK for Python

Client library for Azure AI model inference with chat completions and embeddings.

Installation

pip install azure-ai-inference

# With OpenTelemetry tracing
pip install azure-ai-inference[opentelemetry]

Environment Variables

# Inference endpoint
AZURE_INFERENCE_ENDPOINT=https://<resource>.services.ai.azure.com/models
AZURE_INFERENCE_CREDENTIAL=<your-api-key>  # If using API key