Are Visual Studio Professional (MSDN, MS-AZR-0059P) subscriptions currently eligible for Azure OpenAI quota allocation?

KawabeHiroshi-3909 0 Reputation points
2026-10-14T01:22:33.5533333+00:00

Hello,

I would like to confirm whether Visual Studio Professional subscriptions are currently eligible for Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry quota allocation.

Environment

  • Subscription type: Visual Studio Professional Subscription
  • Plan: MSDN
  • Plan ID: MS-AZR-0059P

Issue

I successfully created Azure AI Foundry resources and Azure OpenAI resources.

However, all quota requests are rejected within a few minutes.

I initially requested quota for GPT-6-luna and received the following response:

"The region you requested a quota increase in is not available to expand capacity at this time."

Following the instructions in the rejection email, I changed both the model and region and submitted additional quota requests.

Examples:

  • GPT-6-luna / Japan East
  • GPT-6-luna / East US
  • GPT-5.6-sol / East US
  • GPT-5.4 / France Central

All requests were rejected within a few minutes with essentially the same response.

Question

At this point, I would like to confirm whether the subscription offer itself is eligible for Azure OpenAI quota allocation.

  1. Is Visual Studio Professional Subscription (MSDN, MS-AZR-0059P) currently supported for Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry quota allocation?
  2. If yes, are there any restrictions on supported models, deployment types, or regions?
  3. If no, is there any official documentation that explains the current limitations of this subscription type?

Background

I found a public article describing successful Azure OpenAI / GPT deployment using a Visual Studio subscription environment:

https://blog.dominosoft.co.jp/entry/2026/05/18/172038

Could Microsoft confirm whether this scenario is still supported today?

Thank you.

Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models
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Rukshan edirisinghe 1,645 Reputation points
2026-10-14T04:37:15.03+00:00

Hi @KawabeHiroshi-3909

Short answer: Visual Studio (MSDN) subscriptions aren't excluded from Azure OpenAI, but they sit in a lower quota category than pay-as-you-go or enterprise subscriptions. You can see this in the quotas and limits page, where several tables list "MSDN subscriptions" as their own column with much smaller limits than the other offer types. The same page also says increase requests are prioritised for customers who are actively using their existing quota, which is why a new MSDN subscription asking for more tends to get quick rejections.

What I'd check before sending more requests:

  1. In the Foundry portal, open the Quota page for your subscription and look at what's already allocated per model and region. Often there's a small default quota you can deploy with right away, without an increase.
  2. Try deploying one of the models that shows quota there, using the Global Standard deployment type, and keep the tokens-per-minute within what's listed.
  3. If you want to confirm which tier your subscription is in, the page has a quotaTiers control plane call you can run with your own Azure CLI login.
  4. If you need more than the MSDN allocation for real workloads, the realistic path is a pay-as-you-go subscription, since that offer type gets higher default limits.

The blog post you found may have been written when the defaults for that offer were different, so I wouldn't rely on it.

When you open the Quota page, do you see any non-zero allocation for the models you want, or is it zero everywhere?

If this answered your question, please consider accepting it as the answer. If the Quota page shows zero for every model, let me know and I'll be happy to keep helping.

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