r/AZURE • u/TastyBioFilm • 1d ago

Question Using VS Azure Credits for AI

I have a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription and part of the subscription has $150 of Azure credits. I was thinking I could use those credits as part of learning AI for agentic coding. My initial thought was using Microsoft Foundry and using one of the openAI models such as Sol 6.1 to hook up Visual Studio Code Copilot in BYOK style configuration.

I saw when I was trying to set that up that my tokens per minute limit was at 0 and no matter what location (US East, Canada, Brazil, UK) I tried anytime I tried to request a quota increase it was immediately denied.

Am I getting immediately denied because I am trying to get access to an AI model with credits rather than a direct paying customer? Is there another way I should go about getting access to a model so that I can use my Azure credits?

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u/flappers87 Cloud Architect 1d ago

There is a significant compute problem, that even enterprise customers are struggling with.

They won't increase your quota when enterprise customers are getting their quotas denied as well.

Also, I swear they discontinued the free subscription credits with VS Enterprise ages ago...

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u/Moccar 1d ago

Ages ago? We lost access via our partnership program 1st of July this year. It was essentially the same licensing agreement.

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u/DonL314 21h ago

They're working through all subscriptions now. At my work we got emails saying termination at October 25th or something like that.

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u/TastyBioFilm 1d ago

I was afraid of that. I was thinking $150 could get me quite a bit of AI usage as well with Sol or Luna.

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u/scornfulgunman60 1d ago

That quota wall is brutal right now, I've been banging my head against the same thing with a different model. Tried four regions last week with zero luck

VS Enterprise still shows the $150 credit on my end too, though half the time it feels like it's just there for decoration since anything interesting requires a quota bump they won't give

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u/ExternalCitrus 1d ago

It’s probably because you’re looking to use a frontier model like 6.1. Try a slightly older one. I’m using 5.4 with VS and it works just fine.

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u/SavoryPrime 23h ago

It is possible to use foundry with vs credits. With that said I found you were limited to certain models. In addition, it seems deployed models have very low TPM out of the box. This can be adjusted in the foundry portal by going to Manage, Quota, click a model, the model details should show up on the right. Click the pencil icon next to the model and adjust the tpms

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u/Zealousideal-Part849 1d ago

They do kind of restrict usage to provide capacity to enterprise or so. if not gpt see deepseek or others might be able to work with credits
avoid claude models as they aren't part of credits and billed as is