Grounding with Bing Search
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Grounding with Bing Search is Microsoft's web search tool for agents in Foundry Agent Service. A Foundry model searches Bing during a Responses API run and returns an answer with URL citations, through the bing_grounding and web_search tools.
Best for Teams already building on Foundry Agent Service who want cited answers from Bing without handling a search key.
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Assessment. First-party Bing grounding inside Foundry Agent Service, called with Entra ID so the agent never holds a search key, at a published $14 per 1,000 transactions. The tools return a model's answer with citations, never the raw results, and data sent to them falls outside Microsoft's Data Protection Addendum and Azure's compliance boundary.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Transport
- Streamable HTTP
- Endpoint
https://{account}.services.ai.azure.com/api/projects/{project}/openai/v1/responses- Auth
- OAuth
- Pricing
- Pay per use · $14 / 1k req
- x402
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary service under the customer's Microsoft agreement and the separate Grounding with Bing terms of use, which exclude it from the Microsoft Data Protection Addendum
- Tools exposed
- 3
- Capabilities
- web.search search.answer
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Packages
pypiazure-ai-projectsnpm@azure/ai-projects- llms.txt
- not found
- Last release
From our research 9 facts checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface listed
- The Grounding with Bing Search and Custom Search tools (
bing_grounding,bing_custom_search_preview) and the generalweb_searchtool in Foundry Agent Service, called through the project's Responses API or a toolbox MCP endpoint. Read from Microsoft Learn, the Grounding with Bing pricing page and terms of use on 6 November 2026. No Azure account was made and no call was sent - Three tool types
web_search(WebSearchTool) adds Bing-backed search to a prompt agent or a toolbox with no Bing resource.bing_groundingneeds a Grounding with Bing resource and a project connection.bing_custom_search_previewrestricts grounding to domains configured in a Bing Custom Search instance, and is marked preview- What comes back
- A model-generated answer with
url_citationannotations and a link to the Bing query. The Bing tools do not return their raw output. Over MCP the toolbox returns one resource item holding the answer, with citations in_meta.annotations - Parameters
count(default 5, at most 50),freshness(Day, Week, Month or a date range),market(such as en-US) andset_langfor bing_grounding.user_locationandsearch_context_size(low, medium, high) for web_search- History
- The standalone Bing Search APIs were retired on 11 August 2025, after a notice dated 16 May 2025 that named Grounding with Bing Search as the replacement
- Data boundary
- Only the Bing query, tool parameters and the resource key are sent to Bing, outside the Azure compliance boundary and outside the Data Protection Addendum. Microsoft and the customer are independent controllers under the terms. Bing traffic uses public egress even from a network-secured project
- Regions
- Grounding with Bing Search is listed for a subset of regions, including West Europe, Canada East, Switzerland North, East US, West US, UK South, Japan East and others on the limits page. Not every model supports the tools
- Display rules
- The terms require showing the website URLs and the Bing search query URL, unmodified, near the output, and allow the output only in search experiences relevant to the user's query
- Admin control
az feature register --name OpenAI.BlockedTools.web_searchturns web search off for every Foundry account in a subscription
Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- Callers authenticate with Microsoft Entra ID and Foundry RBAC roles, and the Bing resource key stays in a project connection
- Price and limits published without a login, $14 per 1,000 transactions, 150 a second and 1 million a day
- Count, freshness, market and language parameters, and a Custom Search variant that limits grounding to chosen domains
- Docs say to treat web search results as untrusted input, and admins can turn web search off for a whole subscription
Weaknesses
- The Bing tools never return raw results to developers, only a model-written answer with citation links
- The Data Protection Addendum does not apply and query data leaves the Azure compliance and geographic boundary
- No free tier, and a first call needs an Azure subscription, a Foundry project, a model deployment and, for bing_grounding, a paid Bing resource
- Terms forbid using Bing output to train or evaluate AI models and limit storing or caching it
Before you call it notes for agents
- Use the citations in the response annotations as the sources; the tool output itself is not returned, and the terms require showing the URLs and the Bing query link
- Expect each run to bill one transaction per tool call at $14 per 1,000, plus model tokens, and set count and freshness in the tool configuration
- Treat cited page text as untrusted input and don't put secrets or personal data in prompts, since queries leave the Azure compliance boundary
- On 429 back off exponentially; no Retry-After header is documented for the tool
Who's behind it provenance 87/100
- Legal entity namedMicrosoft Corporation20/20
- Domain agemicrosoft.com, registered 1991-05-02 (35 years)15/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domain{account}.services.ai.azure.com15/15
- Terms of serviceread, states 3 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 2 clauses that cost points2.6/10
- Privacy policyread, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points8/10
- Status pageazure.status.microsoft/en-us/status10/10
- Changelogpublished10/10
- security.txtpublished but past its Expires date5/10
- People named4 named with their role, 1 with a public profile10/10
- Support routehelp pages5/5
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service dated 2025-11-01, states 3 of 7, 2 to know
TL;DR Dated 2025-11-01. States 3 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find the governing law, a liability limit, how changes are announced or a service level. To know before relying on it, model training with no opt-out found and limits on automated access.
Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was foundcosts points
Use or facilitate the use of the Bing Services Output to train, evaluate or improve any AI Model, including without limitation Customer's proprietary AI Model, or any new or existing services that Customer or third parties may offer;
Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.
Restricts automated accesscosts points
Use or facilitate the use of the Bing Services Output for websites where Customer is restricted by the website from using such Bing Services Output, including but not limited to, where Customer's crawler has been blocked via robots.txt;
A rule against bots, scrapers or automated means can cover an agent, depending on how the vendor reads it.
Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2025-11-01
Last updated: November 2025
Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.
Names the governing law or courts
Not found in the text.
Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.
States a limit on its liability
Not found in the text.
Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.
Says how the agreement or account can be ended
If Microsoft suspends the Services under this Section 3(e), Microsoft will suspend only to the extent reasonably necessary.
Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.
Says how changes to the terms are announced
Not found in the text.
Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.
Lists what users may not do
If the Bing Services Output includes Microsoft's or its suppliers' logos or proprietary notices, Customer will not change, obscure, remove, or resize any logo, trademark, copyright, or other notice of Microsoft or its suppliers or digital watermarks in the Bing Services Output.
The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.
Refers to a service level or uptime commitment
Not found in the text.
Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.
The document · read 2026-11-06 · 2,474 words
Privacy policy dated 2026-09-01, states 8 of 8, 2 to know
TL;DR Dated 2026-09-01. States all 8 things a reader expects. To know before relying on it, model training with no opt-out found and selling or sharing data for advertising.
Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was foundcosts points
As part of our efforts to improve and develop our products, we may use your data to develop and train our AI models.
Content an agent sends could end up in a model. An opt-out, where the document gives one, is shown instead.
Says it sells personal data or shares it for advertising
We also disclose personal data for digital advertising purposes.
Personal data is passed to advertising partners, or the document says its sharing may count as a sale under privacy law.
Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2026-09-01
Last Updated: September 2026
Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.
Says what personal data is collected
The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Microsoft and the choices you make, including your privacy settings and the products and features you use.
The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.
Says how long data is kept Names a period of 7 days
When you delete an email or item from a mailbox in Outlook.com, the item generally goes into your Deleted Items folder where it remains for approximately 7 days unless you move it back to your inbox, you empty the folder, or the service empties the folder automatically, whichever comes first.
Says when data sent to the service is deleted.
Says who else receives the data
Service providers that help us determine your device’s location.
Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.
Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising
not use or share student personal data for advertising or similar commercial purposes, such as providing personalized advertising to students;
A plain statement either way.
Says what rights people have over their data
State Data Privacy Notice (including notice at collection details) and the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy for additional information about your rights and the processing of your personal data.
Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.
Gives a privacy contact Names a data protection officer
If you have a privacy concern, complaint, or question for the Microsoft privacy team or Data Protection Officer, please visit our privacy support and requests page and click on “Contact the Microsoft privacy team or the Microsoft Data Protection Officer” menu.
An address or officer to send a request to.
Says where data is transferred or stored Relies on standard contractual clauses
In such cases, we implement legal safeguards-such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission – to help protect your rights and ensure your data remains protected.
The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.
For enterprise and developer products, the customer's agreement with Microsoft takes precedence over this privacy statement where the two conflict.
In the event of a conflict between our privacy statement and the terms of any agreement(s) between a customer and Microsoft for Enterprise and Developer Products, the terms of those agreement(s) will control.
Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.
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Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.
Microsoft staff manually review some results of automated systems, including AI, against the source data.
For example, to build, train, and improve the accuracy of our automated systems – such as AI - we manually review some of the results against the underlying data.
Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.
The document · read 2026-10-08 · 33,580 words
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
The Foundry project endpoint is on services.ai.azure.com, a Microsoft domain. Domain registration date carried from the Azure listings' provenance.
The Grounding with Bing terms of use (updated November 2025) are subject to the customer's Microsoft agreement (MCA, MBSA or MOSA) and name no separate contracting entity. They forbid using output on sites that block the customer's crawler, using links for crawling or scraping, and bypassing transaction limits.
www.microsoft.com/.well-known/security.txt still carries Expires 2026-09-23T16:00:00.000Z on 6 November 2026.
learn.microsoft.com/robots.txt allows the documentation paths read. The Azure status history page lists post-incident reviews for five years.
Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help
Key people
- Bill GatesCo-founder and technical adviser, Microsoft
- Paul AllenCo-founder, Microsoft, left day-to-day work there in 1983
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Satya NadellaChairman and CEO, Microsoft
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Kevin ScottChief Technology Officer, Microsoft
Microsoft on LinkedIn @Microsoft
Ownership Public company (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Microsoft's leadership page on its Source newsroom, read on 28 October 2026, lists Satya Nadella as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Kevin Scott's executive page there gives him as Chief Technology Officer. The co-founders, and Bill Gates's current role as technical adviser, come from Wikipedia's Microsoft and Paul Allen articles. Product people named on single listings are left as they are, except those with no first-hand source. Copied from the Microsoft listings' humans file (azure-translator, checked 28 October 2026) on 6 November 2026. No product person for Grounding with Bing is named on the pages read. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:37 UTC
Probed every five minutes at https://{account}.services.ai.azure.com/api/projects/{project}/openai/v1/responses. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials. Last note, invalid character "{" in host name.
- npm
@azure/ai-projects2.10.0 - pypi
azure-ai-projects2.10.0, released 2026-10-30 - npm downloads a week 1.4M
- PyPI downloads a week 1.9M
- security.txt valid, expires 2027-10-27T16:00:00.000Z · 1 hour ago
Pages we watch
| Page | Kind | Last checked | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| www.microsoft.com/bing/apis/grounding-legal-enterprise | terms | 3 hours ago · 200 | no change seen |
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/bing-grounding.json
Notable
- Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs on 11 August 2025 and told customers to move to Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents, in a notice dated 16 May 2025 source
- The Microsoft Data Protection Addendum does not apply to data sent to Grounding with Bing, and that data flows outside the Azure compliance and geographic boundary source
- The Bing tools do not return their raw output to developers or end users. The model's answer carries URL citations and a link to the Bing query source
- $14 per 1,000 transactions, at most 150 transactions a second and 1 million a day, for both Grounding with Bing Search and Custom Search source
- The terms of use, updated November 2025, forbid training or improving AI models with Bing output and allow storing output only as part of the customer's own work product source
- Web search can be added to a Foundry toolbox, which exposes it through an MCP endpoint and returns the answer as a resource item with url_citation annotations source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026 | 16%20 | 13.6 | |
| Graded on the hosted lines, for the Foundry Agent Service tools agents call. Azure status page with post-incident reviews and a Foundry Agent Service component (20). The history page read on 6 November lists one review in the 90 days from 8 August that names Foundry Agent Service, intermittent failures and latency in Sweden Central from 10:03 to 15:58 UTC on 29 September 2026. It was one region and partial, and the review doesn't name Grounding with Bing, so minor only, the reading the Azure Translator listing got for the same review (20). The pricing page publishes 150 transactions a second and 1 million a day for each Grounding with Bing resource (15). The web search troubleshooting table says to answer 429 with exponential backoff and retries. No Retry-After or tool-specific overload guidance was found, and searches have no side effects (8 of 15). No SLA naming Grounding with Bing was found. The terms make it a First Party Consumption Service apart from the Online Services terms, and the Online Services SLA document wasn't opened (0). Grounding with Bing Custom Search is marked preview and Grounding with Bing Search is not, but no page read states general availability for it or for the web_search tool, and the .NET SDK is in preview (5 of 10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 8 + 0 + 5 = 68. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 11.1 | |
The tools are typed in the official SDKs (BingGroundingTool, BingCustomSearchPreviewTool, WebSearchTool) in Python, C#, JavaScript and Java, and the toolbox exposes web search as an MCP tool. No public OpenAPI description of the Responses tool types was confirmed from the pages read (10 of 25). Microsoft Learn serves each page as Markdown with accept=text/markdown, though learn.microsoft.com/llms.txt answers 404 (10). The pages say what each of four web grounding routes is for and when to choose it, when to use Custom Search instead, and not to ask the model to summarise a whole page (17 of 20). Parameters are typed with defaults and limits in prose, count 1 to 50 with default 5, freshness values and a date-range form, market and language formats, search_context_size low, medium or high (11 of 15). Examples in Python, C#, TypeScript, Java and REST with expected output, and troubleshooting tables for connection ID, authentication and 429 problems, but no error codes or bodies for the tools (10 of 15). Requests carry api-version=v1 on the toolbox, SDK changelogs are dated and a monthly What's New page lists new articles, the latest for August 2026 (10 of 15). 10 + 10 + 17 + 11 + 10 + 10 = 68. | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 9.9 | |
Read as a server-side search tool inside an agent run. The tools return a model's answer with citations rather than raw results, and search_context_size sets how much context web search uses. A caller can't size or inspect the result set itself, since the Bing tools never return their output. Custom Search confines grounding to chosen domains without code (18 of 25). count, freshness, market and language filters, and domain restriction through Custom Search. No pagination or offset (13 of 20). Troubleshooting tables give causes and fixes for connection ID, RBAC and 429 problems, but the tools document no error codes (8 of 20). Searches only read, so a retry is safe apart from the per-transaction charge. No MCP annotations are documented for the toolbox's web search tool (10 of 20). The web_search route needs only a project, a model deployment and the Foundry User role. bing_grounding also needs a paid Bing resource and a project connection. SDKs in Python, C#, JavaScript and Java (12 of 15). Prompt caching gets no hits with the Bing tools, because they add a timestamp to every request. 18 + 13 + 8 + 10 + 12 = 61. | |||
| Security & authchecked 6 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 13.8 | |
| Callers authenticate to the Foundry project with Microsoft Entra ID tokens and RBAC roles (Foundry User to run agents, Foundry Project Manager to add connections), with just-in-time Contributor through Entra PIM for provisioning. The Bing resource key sits in a project connection and the agent never holds it. No key in a URL (28 of 30). The tools only read. Custom Search confines grounding to configured public domains, and an admin can turn web search off for a whole subscription. There is no per-agent read-only toggle to set, since the tools have no write path (15 of 20). The web search page tells developers to treat web search results as untrusted input and to keep secrets and personal data out of prompts, and the tool best practices page says the same of all tool outputs. Raw results are not passed back to the caller (10 of 15). Run steps show each tool call and the Bing query sent, and Azure's activity log covers resource changes. No per-query audit log for Bing was found (10 of 15). Microsoft runs a coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy and bounty programmes through MSRC. microsoft.com's security.txt passed its Expires date on 23 September 2026 and still carries it on 6 November, and the Azure compliance attestations are not shown to cover a service whose data leaves the compliance boundary (16 of 20). 28 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 16 = 79. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 2.5 | |
| No x402, MPP or L402 (0). $14 per 1,000 transactions for Grounding with Bing Search and Custom Search, published on microsoft.com without a login (20). No free tier for Grounding with Bing, and an Azure subscription needs a card, as on the Azure Translator listing (0). A person signs up for Azure, creates a Foundry project and, for bing_grounding, a Bing resource (0). | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 7.0 | |
| Read as a closed service with official SDKs, as the other Azure listings are. The web search page was updated on 2 November 2026 and the Bing tools page on 12 October, and azure-ai-projects 2.10.0 shipped on PyPI and npm on 30 October 2026, the SDK that carries the tool types (30). azure-ai-projects released 2.6.0 (4 September), 2.6.1, 2.7.0, 2.8.0 (5 October), 2.9.0 (17 October) and 2.10.0 in the 90 days from 8 August. Their changelogs weren't read for web search changes, so they count as SDK releases (20). Microsoft Learn feedback, Microsoft Q&A and the Azure SDK issue trackers, whose reply times weren't sampled (10 of 15). Current official SDKs in Python, JavaScript, .NET and Java, the .NET one in preview (15). The SDKs live in the azure-sdk monorepos and CI wasn't checked (5 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 80. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 45, provenance 87checked 6 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 5.8 | |
| Closed service. The terms of use, updated November 2025, are separate from the Online Services terms and sit under the customer's Microsoft agreement (15 of 30). The docs and the terms agree that the Data Protection Addendum and the Product Terms' privacy and security terms don't apply, that Microsoft and the customer are independent controllers, and that the query and parameters leave the Azure compliance and geographic boundary. The terms defer storage and use of query data to the general Microsoft Privacy Statement and state no retention period (15 of 30). The Bing Search APIs retirement was announced on 16 May 2025 for 11 August 2025, under three months' notice, and the web search page marks the Deep Research tool deprecated with a replacement. Microsoft's lifecycle policy covers Azure services, but no deprecation terms for Grounding with Bing were found (10 of 20). Data location for Bing processing isn't stated, and no sub-processor list for it was found (5 of 20). 15 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 45. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 63.7 · B | ||
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Score history no moves since it was graded
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Graded 63.7 B methodology v0.7
Fix list 17 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Grounding with Bing Search. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- Judgement call on scope. The listing covers the web_search, bing_grounding and bing_custom_search_preview tools as one product, since the web search page says all three use Grounding with Bing Search. The standalone Bing Search APIs are retired and are not listed.
- firstReleased is 16 May 2025, the date of the retirement notice that names Grounding with Bing Search as the existing replacement. No earlier first-hand launch date was found.
- unchecked: whether Grounding with Bing Search and the web_search tool are generally available. Only Custom Search is labelled preview on the pages read.
- unchecked: an SLA for Grounding with Bing. It is a First Party Consumption Service under separate terms, and the Online Services SLA document wasn't opened.
- unchecked: a public OpenAPI description of the bing_grounding and web_search tool types in the Azure REST API specifications.
- unchecked: how the general web_search tool is billed when no Grounding with Bing resource is attached. The page says Grounding with Bing incurs costs and links the same pricing page.
- The terms forbid using Bing output on sites that block the customer's crawler and using its links for crawling or scraping, recorded as facts about the service.
Sources 12
- web search tool docs learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Grounding with Bing tools docs learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Grounding with Bing pricing microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Grounding with Bing terms of use microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Bing Search APIs retirement notice learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Azure status history azure.status.microsoft · seen 2026-11-06
- Foundry Agent Service limits and regions learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- Foundry tool catalogue learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- tool best practices learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- What's new in Microsoft Foundry learn.microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
- azure-ai-projects on PyPI pypi.org · seen 2026-11-06
- Microsoft security.txt microsoft.com · seen 2026-11-06
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Pay per use $14 / 1k req $14 per 1,000 transactions for Grounding with Bing Search and for Grounding with Bing Custom Search, counted as tool calls per run, plus the model deployment's token charges. No free tier found. An Azure subscription and a person's signup are needed first.
Prices
| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grounding with Bing Search transaction | $14 | per 1,000 requests | Counted as tool calls per run, plus the model deployment's token charges |
| Grounding with Bing Custom Search transaction | $14 | per 1,000 requests | Same limits, 150 a second and 1 million a day |
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Recent changes
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Install
pip install azure-ai-projects azure-identityFirst request
curl -X POST "$FOUNDRY_PROJECT_ENDPOINT/openai/v1/responses" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENT_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"'$FOUNDRY_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT_NAME'","input":"How does Wikipedia explain Euler identity?","tool_choice":"required","tools":[{"type":"bing_grounding","bing_grounding":{"search_configurations":[{"project_connection_id":"'$BING_PROJECT_CONNECTION_ID'","count":7,"market":"en-US","set_lang":"en","freshness":"week"}]}}]}'Through letme picks today, calling later
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tavily API + MCP Tavily | BB | 77.1 | web.search search.answer | partial |
| You.com APIs You.com | BB | 76.1 | web.search search.answer | partial |
| Context.dev Context Dev Inc. | BB | 75.7 | web.search search.answer | no |
| Parallel Search and Task APIs Parallel Web Systems | BB | 75 | web.search search.answer | partial |
| Perplexity Search API Perplexity | BB | 70.2 | web.search search.answer | no |
| Valyu Valyu | B | 69.3 | web.search search.answer | no |
Machine-readable
- JSON
/api/v1/tools/bing-grounding.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/bing-grounding.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/bing-grounding.xml - Markdown
/tools/bing-grounding.md· slim/tools/bing-grounding.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/bing-grounding.md·/fixes/bing-grounding.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool bing-grounding --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "bing-grounding"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
dig +short TXT bing-grounding.grade.anchorterminal.com(the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)
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On a light page On a dark page <a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bing-grounding"><img src="https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/bing-grounding.svg" alt="Grounding with Bing Search on Anchor Terminal" height="20"></a>[](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bing-grounding)<a href="https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bing-grounding">Grounding with Bing Search on Anchor Terminal</a>It counts on a page on microsoft.com or one of its subdomains.
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We read it once now and again every week. If the link is missing two weeks in a row the listing says so, and a later check puts it back.
Agents send the same to POST /api/v1/verify as {"slug": "bing-grounding", "url": "…"}, or call the verify_listing tool at /mcp. Ten checks an hour from one address. What we check. To announce the listing, get sharing assets for social media.
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Link the post to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bing-grounding. The logo is the one on this listing. If it's wrong or out of date, send us the right one.