Microsoft Bicep Plans Pricing
Microsoft Bicep is a free, open-source domain-specific language and CLI for authoring Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployments. Bicep itself has no licensing cost — Microsoft explicitly documents 'no cost and open source' in the official overview. There are no tiers, no SaaS billing, and no API surface to charge for. Costs come exclusively from the underlying Azure resources that Bicep templates deploy and from Microsoft Customer Support contracts (which support Bicep at no extra charge).
Plans
Bicep CLI, VS Code extension, Visual Studio extension, language compiler, and template registry are all free under MIT-style open-source licensing. No usage limits.
- Bicep CLI (Linux, macOS, Windows)
- VS Code Bicep extension
- Visual Studio Bicep extension
- Bicep Playground
- Decompile from ARM JSON
Resources that a Bicep deployment provisions (VMs, storage, networking, etc.) are billed at standard Azure rates. Bicep does not surcharge or wrap deployment cost.
- Standard Azure pay-as-you-go pricing applies
- Subject to Reserved Instance / Savings Plan discounts on the deployed resources
Bicep is supported by Microsoft Customer Support at no extra charge under existing Azure support contracts (Developer / Standard / Professional Direct / Premier / Unified). Pay only for the support tier, not for Bicep itself.
- Same support tier covers all Azure services and Bicep
- No Bicep-specific surcharge