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Azure Government pricing
Azure Government publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the software tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Not on record
Azure Government plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Azure Government stops being free
Pay-as-you-go, Free
- Virtual Machines
- Azure SQL
- Storage
No paid tier on record
Azure Government lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Azure Government feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- FedRAMP High Authorized
- DOD IL5 Approved
- Isolated Datacenters
- Hybrid Cloud
- AI & ML Services
Integrations
- Microsoft 365
- Dynamics 365
- Power Platform
Platform
- Web support
- Cli support
- Sdk support
People bring Azure Government in for hosting us government workloads in dedicated domestic datacentres, systems needing fedramp high, dod il2 to il5, cjis or itar authorisation, state, local and tribal government cloud services, contractors processing controlled government data. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Azure Government are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Azure Government
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Azure Government against the tools that do have one before committing.
Azure Government runs on web, cli, sdk, and is published by Microsoft of Redmond, Washington. The full record is on the Azure Government review.
Azure Government pricing questions
- How much does Azure Government cost?
- Azure Government publishes a single tier, Pay-as-you-go, at Free.
- Does Azure Government have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Azure Government is listed as usage-based. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What am I actually paying for with Azure Government?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for hosting us government workloads in dedicated domestic datacentres, systems needing fedramp high, dod il2 to il5, cjis or itar authorisation, state, local and tribal government cloud services.
- Does Azure Government charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Azure Government prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Azure Government against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Azure Government to make a useful price comparison.