Azure Kubernetes Service · Pricing Plans
Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Plans Pricing
Azure Kubernetes Service charges only for the cluster-management control plane (Free, Standard, Premium tiers); worker-node VMs and other Azure resources are billed separately at standard Azure rates. AKS Long-Term Support (LTS), Azure Container Storage, and uptime SLA differ by tier.
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Plans
Free
freemium
No-cost cluster management for dev/test and small non-critical workloads. No SLA; best-effort availability.
Cluster management / hour (hour · hour)
0.00 USD
Worker node VMs (hour · hour)
standard Azure VM rates USD
- No SLA (best-effort)
- Recommended for dev/test
- Worker nodes pay standard VM rates
Standard
subscription
Production-grade cluster management with 99.95% (with AZ) / 99.9% uptime SLA on the API server.
Cluster management / hour (hour · hour)
0.10 USD
Worker node VMs (hour · hour)
standard Azure VM rates USD
- 99.95% (with AZ) / 99.9% API server SLA
- Recommended for production
- Worker nodes pay standard VM rates
Premium
subscription
Standard plus Long-Term Support (LTS) - up to 2 years of Kubernetes version support per release. Recommended for regulated and long-lived workloads.
Cluster management / hour (hour · hour)
0.60 USD
Worker node VMs (hour · hour)
standard Azure VM rates USD
- All Standard features
- Long-Term Support (up to 2 years per K8s release)
- Recommended for regulated workloads