# addModelDeployment

- Module: [Aspire.Hosting.Foundry](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.foundry.md)
- Version: `13.4.0-preview.1.26281.18`
- Kind: `method`
- Source: [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/aspire)

Adds a model deployment to the parent Microsoft Foundry resource.

## Definition

```typescript
interface AzureCognitiveServicesProjectResource {
  // ... omitted for brevity
  addModelDeployment(
    name: string,
    model: FoundryModel|string,
    modelVersion?: string,
    format?: string): FoundryDeploymentResource
}
```

## Parameters

- `name` (`string`)
- `model` (`FoundryModel|string`)
- `modelVersion` (`string`) `optional`
- `format` (`string`) `optional`

## Returns

[FoundryDeploymentResource](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.foundry/foundrydeploymentresource.md) `builder`

## Applies to

- [AzureCognitiveServicesProjectResource](/reference/api/typescript/aspire.hosting.foundry/azurecognitiveservicesprojectresource.md)