# Microsoft — The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost

- Company: Microsoft (microsoft.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-26T16:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Azure AI
- Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-economics-of-agent-optimization-four-ways-to-lower-the-cost/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4492-the-economics-of-agent-optimization-four-ways-to-lower-the-cost

Microsoft Foundry blog post discusses four strategies to optimize agent costs: selecting the right model per request, caching, prompt and agent optimization, and observability. It describes capabilities like model router, deployment options, fine-tuning, and prompt optimizer to reduce cost per successful outcome.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-economics-of-agent-optimization-four-ways-to-lower-the-cost/:

> Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers for making those tradeoffs deliberately, rather than accepting the ones your prototype happened to choose.

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