Features of Microsoft Agent Framework Tier List
Always use
Provider: Foundry (Azure OpenAI)
Structured Output
Prompt Engineering
Tools
AgentFrameworkToolkit
Reasoning
RAG (Custom)
Make sense sometimes
Provider: OpenAI
Multi Agents
MCP (Create)
Service Tiers
AgentSession
Azure Functions
MCP (Consume)
Speech-to-Text
ChatReducers
Considered it
Provider: Google
Provider: OpenRouter
AG-UI
OpenTelemetry
On the Fly Tool Calling
AI Context Providers
Batch
Image Understanding
Web Search
TOON
Speech-to-Speech
Offline Models
Never seen the need
Memory
AgentSkills
Chat History
A2A
CodeAct/Hyperlight
Code Interpreter
Text-to-Speech
Image Generation
Workflows
Provider: Other (Mistral,xAI, Cerberus)
Provider: Amazon Bedrock
Would not use
Provider: Foundry (Rest of Features)
RAG (Out-of-the-box)
Semantic Kernel
DevUI
Provider: Anthropic
