Azure Defender pricing
Protect your hybrid cloud workloads with Azure Defender
- No upfront cost
- No termination fees
- Pay only for what you use
Start your Azure free account and get a $200 credit for 30 days, plus get 12 months of free access to Azure Defender.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ 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 who have already purchased this, 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 trial.
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 who have already purchased this, 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 trial.
Azure Defender, provides Extended Detection and Response for workloads running in Azure, on-premises, and in other clouds. Integrated with Security Center, Azure Defender protects your hybrid data, cloud native services and servers from threats; and integrates with your existing security workflows like your SIEM solution and Microsoft’s vast threat intelligence to streamline threat mitigation.
Pricing details
When you enable Azure Defender, we automatically enroll and start protecting all your resources unless you explicitly decide to opt-out. For any resource that is protected by Azure Defender, you will be charged per the pricing model below.
Azure Defender is free for the first 30 days. Any usage beyond 30 days will be automatically charged as per the pricing scheme below.
| Features | Azure Security Center Free Tier | Azure Defender |
|---|---|---|
| Continuous assessment and security recommendations | ||
| Azure secure score | ||
| Just in time VM Access | ‐ ‐ | |
| Adaptive application controls and network hardening | ‐ ‐ | |
| Regulatory compliance dashboard and reports | ‐ ‐ | |
| Threat protection for Azure VMs and non-Azure servers (including Server EDR) | ‐ ‐ | |
| Threat protection for PaaS services | ‐ ‐ | |
| Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (servers) | ‐ ‐ |
Pricing
| Resource Type | Price |
|---|---|
| Azure Defender for Servers |
$- Included data - 500 MB/day |
| Azure Defender for App Service | $- |
| Azure Defender for SQL on Azure | $-3 |
| Azure Defender for SQL outside Azure | $-4 |
| Azure Defender for MySQL (Preview) | Free1 |
| Azure Defender for PostgreSQL (Preview) | Free1 |
| Azure Defender for Storage - Protect all storage accounts within a subscription2 | $-/10K transactions |
| Azure Defender for Kubernetes | $-/vCore/hour |
| Azure Defender for ACR | $-/image |
| Azure Defender for Key Vault | $-/10K transactions |
| Azure Defender for ARM (Preview) | Free1 |
| Azure Defender for DNS (Preview) | Free1 |
Additional data charges for virtual machines only
| Overage Meter | Price |
|---|---|
| Additional data uploaded over included daily data | See Azure Monitor pricing page for data ingestion pricing |
| Additional retention beyond one month | See Azure Monitor pricing page for data retention pricing |
Azure Defender for IoT
Azure Defender for IoT delivers unified security for IoT/OT environments, offering two different sets of capabilities depending on whether you need to protect existing IoT/OT environments or are securing new IoT/OT devices that are provisioned and managed through IoT Hub.
Agentless monitoring
Azure Defender for IoT’s agentless monitoring capabilities protect existing enterprise IoT/OT environments, providing automatic asset discovery, vulnerability management, and threat detection. Today, Azure Defender for IoT’s agentless monitoring capabilities are available for on-premises deployment, with the option to connect to the cloud to send threat information to Azure Sentinel.
Azure Defender for IoT’s agentless monitoring capabilities are free of charge for the first 1,000 committed devices for the first 30 days. Beyond that, customers will automatically be charged per the pricing below.
| Solution | Price |
|---|---|
| Azure Defender for IoT agentless monitoring - on-premises | $-/month per 1,000 monitored devices, based on commitment1 |
Security for new devices provisioned through IoT Hub
Azure Defender for IoT also offers security for new devices provisioned and managed through IoT Hub, such as those that have the Azure Defender for IoT security agent installed. These security capabilities are free of charge for the first 30 days. Any usage beyond 30 days will be automatically charged per the pricing below.
| Solution | Price |
|---|---|
| Azure Defender for IoT for devices managed by IoT Hub – by device | $-/month |
| Azure Defender for IoT for devices managed by IoT Hub – by messages | $-/25K transactions |
FAQ
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A transaction is an API call with a request payload size of up to 1,000 data points included in the time series. Each increment of 1,000 data points will be counted as an additional transaction. For example, an API call with request payload size of 2,050 data points is 3 transactions. The maximum request payload size is 8,640 data points. Each data point in the time series is a time stamp/numerical value pair.
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