Azure Dev/Test pricing
Significantly reduce the costs of ongoing dev/test workloads with discounted rates on Azure services—available to active Visual Studio subscribers.
Get discounts exclusively available to Visual Studio subscribers
Provision fast, lean, and highly secure dev/test workloads on Azure—and realize substantial cost savings compared to your production workloads. Your dev/test discounted rates continue as long as you maintain your Visual Studio subscription.
Save on VMs and Azure services
Get dev/test rates on Windows and Windows Server virtual machines, Azure SQL Database, Azure Logic Apps, Azure App Service, Azure Cloud Services instances, and Azure HDInsight instances.
Take advantage of purpose-built dev/test services
Access lower rates on Azure DevTest Labs, Windows Virtual Desktop, and the Azure shared image gallery—with discounts exclusively available to Visual Studio subscribers.
Simplify billing
Manage both dev/test and production subscriptions within the Azure account portal and receive a single bill for both subscriptions. Use your Azure prepayment funds to cover both production and dev/test workloads.
Why Azure Dev/Test pricing?
Get discounted rates for nonproduction workloads
- Save up to 57 percent for a typical web app dev/test environment running SQL Database and App Service.
- Use the software included with your Visual Studio subscription, for dev/test on Azure Virtual Machines—at no extra charge.
- Get free access to dev/test environments for user acceptance testers without Visual Studio subscriptions.
- Continue saving with Azure Dev/Test pricing because it provides long-term discounts—instead of one-time credits.
Select the Azure Dev/Test pricing plan that’s right for your organization
Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test
Get your team up and running with dev/test environments in the cloud. Create multiple Azure subscriptions to maintain isolated environments and a separate bill for each project or team.
Enterprise Dev/Test
Make the most of your Enterprise Agreement by signing up for lower rates on dev/test workloads. Use funds already in your Enterprise Agreement—no separate payment is required.
Azure Plan for Dev/Test
Stretch your Microsoft Customer Agreement even further by signing up for lower rates on dev/test workloads.
Azure Dev/Test pricing discounts
| Azure service | Pricing discount |
|---|---|
| Billed at CentOS/Ubuntu Linux VM rates | |
| Billed at CentOS/Ubuntu Linux VM rates | |
| SQL Server VMs (Enterprise, Standard, and Web) | Billed at CentOS/Ubuntu Linux VM rates |
| Logic Apps Enterprise Connector | |
| App Service (Basic, Standard, Premium v2, Premium v3) | |
| Cloud Services instances | |
| HDInsight instances |
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Frequently asked questions—Azure Dev/Test pricing
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Azure Dev/Test pricing gives customers access to select Azure services for nonproduction workloads at discounted pricing under the Microsoft Customer Agreement. This enduring plan reduces the costs of running and managing applications in development and testing environments, across a range of Microsoft products.
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Yes, Azure Dev/Test pricing is offered exclusively to active Visual Studio subscribers. The use of resources within this subscription is restricted to developing and testing applications, with no uptime guarantee. Your Azure Dev/Test discounted rates continue as long as you maintain your Visual Studio subscription.
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Yes, you can optimize your cost savings with both Azure Dev/Test pricing and Azure Hybrid Benefit licensing. Use Azure Dev/Test pricing for your dev/test workloads and Azure Hybrid Benefit licensing for production workloads.
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- Visual Studio subscribers sign up for Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test.
- Organizations with Visual Studio subscriptions and Enterprise Agreements sign up for Enterprise Dev/Test using the Azure Enterprise portal.
- Organizations with Visual Studio subscriptions and Microsoft Customer Agreements sign up for Azure Plan for Dev/Test.
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No, dev/test subscriptions do not have SLAs in place. The only exceptions are Azure DevOps and Azure Monitor.
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