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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 software tools listed alongside it.
- 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.
Core
- 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 running windows and linux workloads, databases and ai services on microsoft's cloud, extending on-premises active directory and microsoft 365 estates into cloud infrastructure. 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.
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.
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.
- What am I actually paying for with Microsoft Azure?
- The record lists 25 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for running windows and linux workloads, databases and ai services on microsoft's cloud, extending on-premises active directory and microsoft 365 estates into cloud infrastructure.
- 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?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Microsoft Azure to make a useful price comparison.