Azure Lab Services pricing
Computer labs in the cloud
- No upfront cost
- No termination fees
- Per-minute billing
Azure Lab Services enables you to easily set up a lab and provide on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to support your scenarios. Teach a class, train professionals, run a hackathon or a hands-on lab, and more. Only pay for what you use.
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 Lab Services is not available in the Germany Central region. Please select another region.
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Azure Lab Services is not available in the South Africa North region. Please select another region.
Azure Lab Services is not available in the South Africa West region. Please select another region.
Azure Lab Services is not available in the Switzerland North region. Please select another region.
Azure Lab Services is not available in the Switzerland West region. Please select another region.
Azure Lab Services is not available in the UAE Central region. Please select another region.
Azure Lab Services is not available in the UAE North region. Please select another region.
Pricing Details
With Azure Lab Services, you only pay for active usage. You are not billed for shutdown instances. To calculate your bill, follow the simple formula below. There are no other fees or extra cost.
Announcement
Azure Lab Services GA pricing goes into effect on May 1, 2019. After May 1st, the cost per hour per Lab Unit will be increased from $0.005 to $0.01. Until then, you will continue to be billed based on the preview price of $0.005 per hour per Lab Unit.
Here is how you calculate the bill for a lab:
An Instance in a lab is a virtual machine, and each is billed on an hourly basis based on the instance size from the table below.
A Lab Unit is the cost unit that determines the price for each instance size. Each size costs a certain number of Lab Units.
For example, the cost calculation for a classroom lab of 50 students using the Small instances for a semester would be:
50 Students X 40 hours per student (10 hours per week X 4 weeks) X 20 Lab Units (Small instance size) X $0.01 per hour per Lab Unit = $400
| Instance | Lab Units |
|---|---|
| Small (2 cores, 4 GB RAM) | 20 |
| Medium (4 cores, 8 GB RAM) | 42 |
| Medium (Nested Virtualization, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM) | 55 |
| Large (8 cores, 28 GB RAM) | 84 |
| GPU (12 cores, 112 GB RAM) | 408 |
Support & SLA
- Free billing and subscription management support.
- Guaranteed 99.9 percent connectivity for lab virtual machines. Read the SLA.
FAQ
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Lab Unit bundles compute, IP, network, snapshots and disks costs together. An Instance is billed on an hourly basis depending on the number of Lab Units. A Lab Unit is priced the same for all Instances; however, the quantity of Lab Units per Instance varies.
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We charge for the number of full minutes your Instance is running, so you are not billed for any extra seconds. In this example, you would be billed for 6 minutes.
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You won't be billed for a machine that is in deallocated (shut down) state as we only charge for active usage. However, a virtual machine can continue to run even after you disconnect from it, so be sure to shut down your machine when you are not working on it.