Azure Plans Pricing
Microsoft Azure is a multi-product platform with hundreds of services, each independently priced. The platform offers pay-as-you-go pricing, Azure Reservations (1- or 3-year committed-use discount), Azure Savings Plans for compute, free tier credits ($200 / 30 days for new accounts plus 12 months of select free services), and enterprise agreements (EA) with negotiated discounts. Use the Azure pricing calculator for service-level rates.
Plans
12 months of select services free, $200 credit for first 30 days, 55+ services always free.
- $200 credit (30 days)
- 12 months free of select services
- 55+ always-free services
Per-service consumption pricing across compute, storage, network, databases, AI, and hundreds of other services. Use the Azure Pricing Calculator for service-level rates.
- 200+ services
- Per-second / per-minute / per-GB metering by service
- No upfront commitment
1-year or 3-year reserved capacity for compute, databases, and other eligible services. Up to ~72% savings vs pay-as-you-go.
- Reserved VM Instances
- Reserved Capacity (SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Cache, etc.)
- Cancellation / exchange flexibility
Hourly-spend commitment (1- or 3-year) across compute services for up to 65% savings vs PAYG. More flexible than reservations across regions/SKUs.
- Cross-region compute coverage
- VM, container, and serverless coverage
Negotiated enterprise contract with Azure Prepayment, custom discounts, dedicated support, and Microsoft Customer Agreement billing.
- Azure Prepayment / monetary commitment
- Negotiated discounts
- Microsoft Unified / Premier Support
- Cost Management + FinOps tooling