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Connecting Pay-As-You-Go Azure Grounding Resource to Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Startups Subscription

Daniel Blackmon 1 Reputation point
2025-08-07T20:22:41.67+00:00

Is it possible to connect a Pay-As-You-Go Azure Grounding Resource to an Azure OpenAI service within a Microsoft Startups subscription?

The goal is to migrate away from the Bing Text Search tool in an AI application that utilizes Microsoft Azure Sponsorship. However, there seems to be an ongoing issue similar to what others have experienced.

According to the documentation, the grounding with Bing search tool requires a Pay-As-You-Go subscription. After setting up the Pay-As-You-Go subscription and creating the necessary tool, the documentation states the following:

To make the Grounding with Bing search tool available to your agent, use a connection to initialize the tool and attach it to the agent. You can find your connection in the connected resources section of your project in the Azure AI Foundry portal.

However, upon visiting the Azure AI Foundry portal, the tool does not appear. When switching to the Pay-As-You-Go subscription under resources, there is no AI service available in that subscription. What steps can be taken to resolve this issue?

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  2. Manas Mohanty 8,150 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-08-08T02:07:15.69+00:00

    Hi Daniel Blackmon

    We have to create connection to that "Grounding bing Search " resource with API key as we won't be able to use Entra credential on another subscription.

    Replication

    1. Create one of Supported models for Agents
    2. Please create the Agent in AI foundry hub then project (preview) or AI foundry project (GA) directly
    3. I was able to connect a Grounding with Bing search from pay as you go subscription to sandbox subscription here in MS.
    4. Once ground with Bing search is created in a pay as you go subscription, Connection to that Grounding with Bing search resource has to be created from Agent /knowledge
    5. Select "Grounding with Bing search" as resource type, then enter the API key of your Grounding with Bing search resource,
    6. User's image

    Reference

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/agents/how-to/tools/bing-code-samples?pivots=portal

    (portal way)

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/agents/how-to/tools/bing-code-samples?pivots=python

    (Python scripts)

    Please let me know if it fixes the connection issue.

    Thank you.

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