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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unsloth.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/unsloth.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) for reliability (+22), security \u0026 auth (+50), transparency \u0026 trust (+54).\n\nPick Unsloth for agent ergonomics (+6), payments \u0026 pricing (+40), maintenance \u0026 community (+27).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) | Unsloth | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 43 | Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) +22 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 66 | Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 53 | Unsloth +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 85 | 35 | Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) +50 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Unsloth +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 82 | Unsloth +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 88 | 34 | Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) +54 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.4 · C** | **51.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) | Unsloth |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Microsoft Azure | Unsloth |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://\u003cresource\u003e.openai.azure.com/openai/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Apache-2.0 (core), AGPL-3.0 (Studio UI) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | none | 2026-09-28 |\n| Popularity | 47.2M npm/wk, 72.1M PyPI/wk | 77k stars, 230k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI).** SFT, DPO and RFT on GPT-4.1 and o4-mini through the OpenAI-shaped /openai/v1 API. No weight export; checkpoints copy only between Azure resources.\n\n**Unsloth.** The Apache-2.0 core runs on customer hardware and keeps model weights there. Users supply and pay for the GPU.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI)\n\n1. Point the OpenAI SDK at https://\u003cresource\u003e.openai.azure.com/openai/v1 with the `api-key` header or an Entra token; job, file and checkpoint calls are the OpenAI shapes\n2. Read prices from the Azure Retail Prices API (meters named like 'gpt-4.1 FT Training global'), not the pricing page, which needs a browser\n3. Keep at most 3 jobs running and 20 queued per resource, and keep training files under 512 MB and 1 GB in total\n4. Create the deployment through the Resource Manager API with a Foundry Owner identity, then call it at least once a fortnight or it's deleted\n5. Query the Models API for `deprecationDate` before choosing a base model\n\n### Unsloth\n\n1. Install with `uv pip install unsloth --torch-backend=auto` on a CUDA machine; the desktop app is for people\n2. Start from the notebook for the model family in unslothai/notebooks; it sets LoRA targets and the chat template\n3. Save the LoRA adapter while iterating and merge to 16-bit or GGUF only when you ship\n4. If Studio must be reachable by other agents, pass --disable-tools and keep it on 127.0.0.1 behind a tunnel\n5. Pin the exact unsloth version; releases land several times a week and don't flag breaking changes\n\n## Other comparisons with Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) or Unsloth\n\n- [Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) vs Fireworks AI Fine-tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-foundry-fine-tuning-vs-fireworks-fine-tuning.md)\n- [Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) vs Tinker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-foundry-fine-tuning-vs-tinker.md)\n- [Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) vs Together AI Fine-tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-foundry-fine-tuning-vs-together-fine-tuning.md)\n- [Microsoft Foundry fine-tuning (Azure OpenAI) vs Vertex AI Gemini tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/azure-foundry-fine-tuning-vs-vertex-ai-tuning.md)\n- [Fireworks AI Fine-tuning vs Unsloth](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/fireworks-fine-tuning-vs-unsloth.md)\n- [Tinker vs Unsloth](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tinker-vs-unsloth.md)\n- [Together AI Fine-tuning vs Unsloth](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/together-fine-tuning-vs-unsloth.md)\n- [Unsloth vs Vertex AI Gemini tuning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unsloth-vs-vertex-ai-tuning.md)\n",
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