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title: Azure OpenAI
description: Route Azure OpenAI requests through AI Gateway for observability and control.
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# Azure OpenAI

[Azure OpenAI ↗](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/ai-services/openai-service/) allows you apply natural language algorithms on your data.

## Endpoint

```
https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway_id}/azure-openai/{resource_name}/{deployment_name}
```

## Prerequisites

When making requests to Azure OpenAI, you will need:

* AI Gateway account ID
* AI Gateway gateway name
* Azure OpenAI API key
* Azure OpenAI resource name
* Azure OpenAI deployment name (aka model name)

## URL structure

Your new base URL will use the data above in this structure: `https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway_id}/azure-openai/{resource_name}/{deployment_name}`. Then, you can append your endpoint and api-version at the end of the base URL, like `.../chat/completions?api-version=2023-05-15`.

## Examples

### cURL

Example fetch request

```
curl 'https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway}/azure-openai/{resource_name}/{deployment_name}/chat/completions?api-version=2023-05-15' \  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \  --header 'api-key: {azure_api_key}' \  --data '{  "messages": [    {      "role": "user",      "content": "What is Cloudflare?"    }  ]}'
```

### Use `openai` JavaScript SDK

JavaScript

```
import { AzureOpenAI } from "openai";
const azure_openai = new AzureOpenAI({  apiKey: "{azure_api_key}",  baseURL: `https://gateway.ai.cloudflare.com/v1/{account_id}/{gateway}/azure-openai/{resource_name}/`,  apiVersion: "2023-05-15",  defaultHeaders: { "cf-aig-authorization": "{cf-api-token}" }, // if authenticated});
const result = await azure_openai.chat.completions.create({  model: '{deployment_name}',  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});
```

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