Azure Search pricing
Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
- No upfront cost
- No termination fees
- Pay only for what you need
- Per-hour billing
AI-Powered cloud search service for web and mobile app development
- Enrich and extract insights through cognitive skills
- Get your search indices up and running quickly
- Easily scale up and down
- Connect search results to business goals with great control over search ranking
- Take advantage of Microsoft’s deep knowledge of natural language processing
- Easily add geospatial search to your app
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners doing business in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and in the United Kingdom (UK). It provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure Germany trial.
Azure Search is not available in the Australia Central region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Australia Central 2 region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Australia Southeast region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Canada East region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the France Central region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the France South region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Germany Central region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Germany Northeast region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Japan East region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Korea Central region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Korea South region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the South India region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the UK West region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the Central US region. Please select another region.
Azure Search is not available in the West India region. Please select another region.
Pricing details
Offered in combinable units that include reliable storage and throughput, Azure Search allows developers to set-up and scale a search experience quickly and cost-effectively. As the volume of data or throughput needs of an application change, Azure Search can scale out to meet these needs and then scale back down to reduce costs. To get more performance, a customer can combine units to gain more queries per second or a higher document count or both. Units can also be combined to enable high availability or faster data ingestion.
High density (HD) mode is an optional setting available for standard S3. High density mode enables customers to pack in a higher number of indices per Azure Search service. This is ideal for customers building multi-tenant SaaS apps that have a large number of small tenants, trials or free accounts and want to provide a powerful search experience at a low cost per index.
Cognitive Search is in public preview and skillset execution is currently offered for free. At a later time, the pricing for this capability will be announced.
| Free | Basic | Standard S1 | Standard S2 | Standard S3 | |
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| Storage | 50 MB | 2 GB per service |
25 GB/partition (max 300 GB documents per service) |
100 GB/partition (max 1.2 TB documents per service) |
200 GB/partition (max 2.4 TB documents per service) |
| Max indexes per service | 3 | 5 | 50 | 200 | 200 or 1000/partition in high density2 mode |
| Documents hosted | 10,000 documents | 1 million |
15 million/partition (up to 180 million documents per service) |
60 million/partition (up to 720 million documents per service) |
120 million/partition (up to 1.4 billion documents per service) or 1m/index in high density2 mode |
| Scale out limits | N/A |
Up to 3 units per service (max 1 partition; max 3 replicas) |
Up to 36 units per service (max 12 partitions; max 12 replicas) |
Up to 36 units per service (max 12 partitions; max 12 replicas) |
Up to 36 units per service (max 12 partitions; max 12 replicas) up to 12 replicas in high density2 mode |
| Data transfer | Standard rates apply | Standard rates apply | Standard rates apply | Standard rates apply | Standard rates apply |
| Price per unit | Free | $- | $- | $- | $- |
Learn more about service limits and constraints.
Cognitive Search: AI-Powered Content Augmentation (Preview)
With the new cognitive search feature, you can use artificial intelligence to extract insights and structured information from your documents. Create pipelines that uses cognitive skills to enrich and bring structure to your data before it gets indexed. You can select from a variety of pre-built cognitive skills and also extend its power by creating your own custom skills. Cognitive Search is in public preview and skillset execution is currently offered for free. At a later time, the pricing for this capability will be announced.
Support & SLA
- We provide technical support for all Azure services released to general availability through Azure Support, starting at $29/month. Billing and subscription management support is provided at no cost.
- We guarantee at least 99.9% availability for index query requests when an Azure Search service instance is configured with two or more replicas and index update requests when an Azure Search service instance is configured with three or more replicas. No SLA is provided for the free tier. Read the SLA.
FAQ
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With Microsoft Azure Search, you are billed on a flat, predictable hourly rate based on the number of units that have been used during any given hour.
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You are billed the maximum number of search units provisioned during any hour. If you start with two units, then scale to four units and then scale back down to two units all within an hour, you will be charged for four units.
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The stop button is meant to stop traffic to your service instance. As a result, your service is still running and will continue to be charged the hourly rate.
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You are billed the flat rate for each hour the unit exists, regardless of usage or if the unit is active for less than an hour. For example, if you create a unit and delete it five minutes later, your bill will reflect a charge for one unit hour.
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Azure Search units combine to provide additional throughput and storage. For example, to scale from 15 million documents to 30 million (additional partitions), a customer can purchase two units. To increase throughput (additional replicas), they can purchase two units. To increase both storage and throughput, a customer would need to purchase four units (2 replicas x 2 partitions = 4 search units).
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Free is a free version of Azure Search designed to provide developers a sandbox to test features and implementations of Azure Search. It is not designed for production workloads. Basic and standard are the go-to options for building applications which benefit from a self-managed search-as-a-service solution. Standard delivers storage and predictable throughput that scales with application needs. For very high-demand applications, please contact azuresearch_contact@microsoft.com.
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Azure Search is available in the new Microsoft Azure portal. First, you must sign up for an Azure subscription, then you can add an Azure Search account to your Azure subscription via the gallery in the preview portal. Get more information.
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Cognitive Search is in public preview and skillset execution is currently offered for free. At a later time, the pricing for this capability will be announced.