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Microsoft Azure pricing
Microsoft Azure publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cloud tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Microsoft Azure pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Microsoft Azure 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Account | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where Microsoft Azure stops being free
Free Account, Free
- $200 credit for 30 days
- Popular services 12 months free
- 40+ services always free
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Microsoft Azure lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Microsoft Azure 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.
Other
- Virtual Machines
- App Service
- SQL Database
- Blob Storage
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Functions
- Service Fabric
- API Management
Integrations
- Active Directory
- Office 365
- Dynamics 365
- Power BI
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- HIPAA
- PCI-DSS
- GDPR
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Hybrid deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Api support
- Desktop support
- Mobile support
People bring Microsoft Azure in for cloud infrastructure and computing, database and storage services, ai and machine learning services, enterprise application hosting. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Microsoft Azure are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Azure (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Microsoft Azure |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Microsoft Azure |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Microsoft Azure |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Microsoft Azure |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Microsoft Azure |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Microsoft Azure |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Microsoft Azure badges page.
Before you pay for Microsoft Azure
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. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Microsoft Azure runs on web, api, desktop, mobile, and is published by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, WA. The full record is on the Microsoft Azure review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Microsoft Azure pricing questions
- How much does Microsoft Azure cost?
- Microsoft Azure publishes a single tier, Free Account, at Free.
- Does Microsoft Azure have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Account tier costs nothing and covers $200 credit for 30 days, popular services 12 months free, 40+ services always free.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Microsoft Azure have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
- What am I actually paying for with Microsoft Azure?
- The record lists 25 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for cloud infrastructure and computing, database and storage services, ai and machine learning services.
- Does Microsoft Azure 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 Microsoft Azure 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 Microsoft Azure against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft Azure covering price, platforms and features.