Azure Documentation

Azure Pricing Details

Understand the costs associated with Azure services to effectively plan and manage your cloud expenditure.

Compute Pricing

Explore the pricing models for Azure's extensive range of compute services, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing.

Virtual Machines

Pay-as-you-go: Billed per second for Linux and Windows VMs.

Reserved Virtual Machine Instances: Significant discounts for 1 or 3-year commitments.

Spot Virtual Machines: Access unused Azure compute capacity at a steep discount.

View VM Pricing

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Pay for the nodes (virtual machines) that run your containerized applications.

Control plane is free for unlimited clusters.

View AKS Pricing

Azure Functions

Serverless compute. You pay only for the time your code runs.

Generous free grant included with all subscriptions.

View Functions Pricing

Example Pricing Table (Illustrative)

Service Region Unit Price (USD)
Standard B2ms VM East US vCPU-Hour $0.0458
Premium SSD Storage East US GB/Month $0.12
Azure SQL Database (General Purpose) East US vCore/Hour $0.015
Azure Functions (Consumption Plan) Global GB-seconds $0.000016

For precise pricing based on your specific needs, regions, and commitment levels, please use the Azure Pricing Calculator.