Filed under Dev Tool · 2025
Microsoft QnA Maker
2017 - 2025, 8 years old
An Azure service that turned FAQ pages and documents into a question-answering bot.
QnA Maker let developers point at a FAQ URL or upload a document and get back a hosted knowledge base with a REST API. Microsoft announced its retirement in May 2022 in favor of the question-answering feature in Azure AI Language, and stopped allowing new QnA Maker resources on October 1, 2022. The portal went offline on March 31, 2025, and the underlying service was fully retired on October 31, 2025. Like LUIS, it was a casualty of the shift from curated knowledge bases to retrieval-augmented LLMs.
- Founded
- 2017-12
- Shut down
- 2025-10-31
- Funding raised
- Undisclosed
- Years alive
- 8
- Founders
- Microsoft