Bing Search APIs Grounding with Bing Search (Azure AI Foundry)
Legacy names Bing Search APIs, Bing Custom Search API, Bing Web Search API
Managed web grounding tool in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, Responses API, and Azure AI Search that retrieves real-time public web data and inline citations for generative AI models and agents.
Naming timeline
- Bing Search APIs (Cognitive Services v5 / v7)
Offered as standalone REST APIs for Web, Image, News, Video, Entity, Custom Search, Spell Check, and Autosuggest until retirement on August 11, 2025.
- Grounding with Bing SearchCurrent name
AI web grounding workloads consolidated into Grounding with Bing Search and Grounding with Bing Custom Search in Azure AI Foundry.
What replaced Bing Search APIs?
Bing Search APIs has been superseded by Grounding with Bing Search (Azure AI Foundry), with the latest change on 19 November 2024 (Microsoft Ignite 2024 Launch & Bing Search v7 Replacement). Earlier names covered by this entry also include Bing Custom Search API, Bing Web Search API. Managed web grounding tool in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, Responses API, and Azure AI Search that retrieves real-time public web data and inline citations for generative AI models and agents. The underlying legacy API or CLI surface is deprecated, so a technical migration is required.
Also known as
- Bing Search API v7
- Grounding with Bing Custom Search
- Bing News Search API
- Bing Image Search API
- Bing Entity Search API
Technical identifiers
Legacy identifiers deprecated. The underlying API or CLI surface for the legacy name is officially deprecated, so this change requires a technical migration rather than a label update.
| ARM Resource Providers (Microsoft.*) | Microsoft.Bing/accounts (kind: Bing.Grounding) Microsoft.Bing/accounts (kind: Bing.CustomGrounding) Microsoft.Bing/accounts (kind: Bing.Search.v7 - Deprecated) api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0 (Deprecated) |
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| Azure CLI (az) / PowerShell | az resource create --resource-type Microsoft.Bing/accounts az cognitiveservices account |
| Entra ID / Azure RBAC Roles | Azure AI Developer Contributor |
| Terraform Resources (azurerm_*) | azapi_resource azurerm_ai_foundry_project |
Standalone api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0 endpoints and Microsoft.Bing/accounts kind 'Bing.Search.v7' / 'Bing.CustomSearch' were retired on August 11, 2025 in favor of Microsoft.Bing/accounts kind 'Bing.Grounding' connected to Azure AI Foundry Agent Service.
Notes & disambiguation
- On May 12, 2025, Microsoft announced the retirement of the standalone Bing Search APIs v7 (including Bing Web Search, Bing Custom Search, Bing News Search, Bing Image Search, Bing Video Search, Bing Entity Search, Bing Autosuggest, Bing Spell Check, and Bing Visual Search), shutting down all standalone v7 endpoints on August 11, 2025.
- AI and LLM grounding workloads transition to Grounding with Bing Search and Grounding with Bing Custom Search, which operate as First-Party Consumption tool integrations inside Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, the Azure OpenAI Responses API web_search tool, and Azure AI Search / Foundry Knowledge rather than returning raw standalone search JSON to arbitrary non-AI applications.
- Legacy standalone Bing Search v7 resources (Microsoft.Bing/accounts with kind 'Bing.Search.v7' and 'Bing.CustomSearch') and api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0 endpoints are retired; new provisioning uses Microsoft.Bing/accounts with kind 'Bing.Grounding' (and 'Bing.CustomGrounding') connected to Azure AI Foundry projects.
Sources & official documentation
- Official documentation ↗
- Product page ↗
- Grounding with Bing | Microsoft Bing
- Use Grounding with Bing Search tools with the agents API - Microsoft Foundry
- Web search with the Responses API (Grounding with Bing Search) - Microsoft Foundry
- Bing family of search APIs (Legacy v7 Previous Versions Documentation)
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