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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 Cosmos DB pricing model
Azure Cosmos DB bills for three different types of usage: compute, storage and bandwidth. The tabs below describe each compute pricing model in greater detail with its accompanying storage and bandwidth pricing models.
Once a compute pricing model and API are chosen, they cannot be changed.
Compute Pricing:
Request Unit (throughput): Azure Cosmos DB bills using Request Units (RU) measured per second (RU/s). Request Units are a proxy for compute, memory and IO used to process database operations and are billed across all selected Azure regions for your Azure Cosmos DB account.
Options for throughput include: Standard Provisioned throughput, Autoscale provisioned throughput and Serverless.
Applicable APIs: NoSQL, MongoDB (RU), Cassandra, Gremlin, and Table.
vCore: Azure Cosmos DB bills for vCores (compute and memory) per node to process database operations and are billed on the size and number of nodes provisioned.
Available APIs: PostgreSQL, MongoDB (vCore), Garnet Cache.
Storage Pricing:
Consumed Storage: Azure Cosmos DB bills for consumed storage per GB fractions per container/collection/table/graph per region. Consumed storage includes all transactional and analytical data and indexes, and backups.
Applicable APIs: NoSQL, MongoDB (RU), Cassandra, Gremlin, and Table.
Disk Storage: Azure Cosmos DB bills for disks provisioned for each node by storage size.
Applicable APIs: PostgreSQL, MongoDB (vCore), Garnet Cache.
Bandwidth Pricing:
Data Egress: Azure bills for data that egresses the Azure cloud or transits the Azure WAN across regions or availability zones.
Applicable APIs: All.
Azure Cosmos DB Garnet Cache is a high-performance, scalable, distributed cache designed to accelerate data access and reduce latency for applications. It is best for workloads that require:
- Consistent low latency for reads and writes at scale
- High throughput, low latency vector searches for AI driven workloads
- Resilient and highly available caching
- Rich and extensible APIs with support for the RESP protocol and Redis commands
Learn more about Azure Cosmos DB Garnet Cache.
Garnet Cache Cluster
Each Azure Cosmos DB Garnet Cache cluster has one or more nodes. You can distribute data across multiple nodes in a cluster by adding shards. As the performance needs of your workload grow, you can vertically scale by choosing a larger SKU or horizontally scale by adding additional shards to your cluster.
High availability (HA) avoids cache downtime by maintaining replicas. Azure Cosmos DB Garnet Cache allows you configure your replication factor to control how many nodes (primary and replicas) are provisioned for each shard.
Azure Cosmos DB Garnet Cache uses Premium SSD managed disks to store snapshots when data persistence is enabled. Each node in the cluster has its own attached disk, and the size of the disk scales based on the amount of data available for the chosen VM SKU. When data persistence is enabled, both primary and replica nodes have attached disks.
General Purpose v6-series
Pricing for the Ds_v6 series.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2 | 2 | 8 GiB | $- | $- |
| D4 | 4 | 16 GiB | $- | $- |
| D8 | 8 | 32 GiB | $- | $- |
| D16 | 16 | 64 GiB | $- | $- |
| D32 | 32 | 128 GiB | $- | $- |
| D48 | 48 | 192 GiB | $- | $- |
| D64 | 64 | 256 GiB | $- | $- |
| D96 | 96 | 384 GiB | $- | $- |
| D128 | 128 | 512 GiB | $- | $- |
| D192 | 192 | 768 GiB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
General Purpose
Pricing for the Ds_v5, Das_v5, Ds_v4 series is uniform based on the number of vCores regardless of the series chosen. For example, Standard_D32s_v5, Standard_D32as_v5, and Standard_D32s_v4 are all priced at the same D32 rate.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2 | 2 | 8 GiB | $- | $- |
| D4 | 4 | 16 GiB | $- | $- |
| D8 | 8 | 32 GiB | $- | $- |
| D16 | 16 | 64 GiB | $- | $- |
| D32 | 32 | 128 GiB | $- | $- |
| D48 | 48 | 192 GiB | $- | $- |
| D64 | 64 | 256 GiB | $- | $- |
| D96 | 96 | 384 GiB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
General Purpose Burstable
Pricing for the Bls_v2, Bals_v2 series is uniform based on the number of vCores regardless of the series chosen. For example, Standard_B2ls_v2 and Standard_B2als_v2 are all priced at the same B2 rate.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2 | 2 | 4 GiB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
Memory Optimized v6-series
Pricing for the Es_v6 series.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2 | 2 | 16 GiB | $- | $- |
| E4 | 4 | 32 GiB | $- | $- |
| E8 | 8 | 64 GiB | $- | $- |
| E16 | 16 | 128 GiB | $- | $- |
| E20 | 20 | 160 GiB | $- | $- |
| E32 | 32 | 256 GiB | $- | $- |
| E48 | 48 | 384 GiB | $- | $- |
| E64 | 64 | 512 GiB | $- | $- |
| E96 | 96 | 768 GiB | $- | $- |
| E128 | 128 | 1,024 GiB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
Memory Optimized
Pricing for the Es_v5, Eas_v5, Es_v4 series is uniform based on the number of vCores regardless of the series chosen. For example, Standard_E32s_v5, Standard_E32as_v5, and Standard_E32s_v4 are all priced at the same E32 rate.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E2 | 2 | 16 GiB | $- | $- |
| E4 | 4 | 32 GiB | $- | $- |
| E8 | 8 | 64 GiB | $- | $- |
| E16 | 16 | 128 GiB | $- | $- |
| E20 | 20 | 160 GiB | $- | $- |
| E32 | 32 | 256 GiB | $- | $- |
| E48 | 48 | 384 GiB | $- | $- |
| E64 | 64 | 512 GiB | $- | $- |
| E96 | 96 | 672 GiB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
Compute Optimized v6-series
Pricing for the Fas_v6 series.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F2 | 2 | 8 GiB | $- | $- |
| F4 | 4 | 16 GiB | $- | $- |
| F8 | 8 | 32 GiB | $- | $- |
| F16 | 16 | 64 GiB | $- | $- |
| F32 | 32 | 128 GiB | $- | $- |
| F48 | 48 | 192 GiB | $- | $- |
| F64 | 64 | 256 GiB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
Storage Optimized
Pricing for the Ls_v3 and Ls_v4 series is uniform based on the number of vCores regardless of the series chosen. For example, Standard_L32s_v3 and Standard_L32s_v4 are both priced at the same L32 rate.
| VM SKU | vCPUs per Node | Total RAM per Node* | Local NVMe Storage | Compute Price per Node | Disk Price per Node** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2 | 2 | 16 GiB | 480 GB | $- | $- |
| L4 | 4 | 32 GiB | 960 GB | $- | $- |
| L8 | 8 | 64 GiB | 1,920 GB | $- | $- |
| L16 | 16 | 128 GiB | 3,840 GB | $- | $- |
| L32 | 32 | 256 GiB | 7,680 GB | $- | $- |
| L48 | 48 | 384 GiB | 11,520 GB | $- | $- |
| L64 | 64 | 512 GiB | 15,360 GB | $- | $- |
| L80 | 80 | 640 GiB | 19,200 GB | $- | $- |
| L96 | 96 | 768 GiB | 23,040 GB | $- | $- |
* There is a variable amount of cacheable RAM due operational overhead. Plan for a buffer when determining the storage needs of your cluster and monitor using the Azure Portal.
** Applicable when data persistence is enabled
Bandwidth
Azure Networking bills for data that egresses the Azure cloud to a destination on the internet or transits the Azure WAN between regions, see Azure Networking Bandwidth Pricing.Azure pricing and purchasing options
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