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 | $- |
| 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 IoT - Devices discovered by Azure Defender for IoT sensor (Preview)3 | Free1 |
| Azure Defender for IoT - Devices managed by Azure IoT Hub - per device | $-/month |
| Azure Defender for IoT - Devices managed by Azure IoT Hub - by messages | $-/25K transactions |
| Azure Defender for Kubernetes | $-/vCore/hour |
| Azure Defender for ACR | $-/image |
| Azure Defender for Key Vault | $-/10K transactions |
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 |
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.