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Pay as you go with Azure—plus get free services

Create an Azure account and purchase cloud services at pay-as-you-go pricing.

  • Get monthly amounts of 40+ services free always.
  • Pay only for what you use beyond free amounts.
  • No upfront commitment. Cancel anytime.
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Get built-in security with Azure pay-as-you-go pricing

Create an Azure account to start building on a trusted cloud platform. Pay only for what you use with no upfront commitment.

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Meet your reliability needs with Azure pay-as-you-go pricing

Create an Azure account to start building on a high-performing, resilient cloud platform. Pay only for what you use with no upfront commitment.

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Control your costs with Azure pay-as-you-go pricing

Create an Azure account and pay only for what you use. Scale and adapt your cloud services to changing business needs with no upfront commitment.

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Meet your reliability needs

Operate your mission-critical systems with speed and confidence—across high availability, disaster recovery, and backup scenarios.

Control your costs

Scale and adapt to changing business needs while managing your cloud spending with budget alerts and optimization best practices.

Simplify your move

As you modernize your applications, take advantage of familiar operational protocols and integrations that reduce the learning curve.

Get built-in Microsoft security

Protect your customers and organization with multilayered security and 90+ Azure compliance certifications.

Control your costs

Scale and adapt to changing business needs while managing your cloud spending with budget alerts and optimization best practices.

Simplify your move

As you modernize your applications, take advantage of familiar operational protocols and integrations that reduce the learning curve.

Get built-in Microsoft security

Protect your customers and organization with multilayered security and 90+ Azure compliance certifications.

Meet your reliability needs

Operate your mission-critical systems with speed and confidence—across high availability, disaster recovery, and backup scenarios.

Simplify your move

As you modernize your applications, take advantage of familiar operational protocols and integrations that reduce the learning curve.

Take advantage of these products that are free always

These products are always free to all Azure customers, up to the specified amounts.

DATABASES

Azure Cosmos DB

1,000 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage

Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs.

COMPUTE

Azure App Service

10 web, mobile, or API apps with 1 GB storage

Quickly create powerful apps for any platform or device using your choice of tools including Node.js and PHP.

COMPUTE

Azure Functions

1 million requests

Process events with a serverless code architecture.

INTEGRATION

Azure Event Grid

100,000 operations per month

Get reliable event delivery at massive scale.

COMPUTE

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Free

Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose.

AI + MACHINE LEARNING

Azure Bot Service

10,000 premium channel messages and unlimited standard channel messages

Develop intelligent, enterprise-grade bots that scale on demand.

INTEGRATION

Logic Apps

4,000 built-in actions with the Consumption plan

Build automated integration solutions across clouds and on-premises systems.

DEVELOPER TOOLS

DevTest Labs

Free

Enable fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments.

Save up to 80 percent on pay-as-you-go pricing with these discounts

Azure Reserved VM Instances

Save up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go pricing with one-year or three-year terms on Linux or Windows virtual machines.

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Azure Hybrid Benefit

Use your on-premises Windows Server or SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to save up to 80 percent* compared to pay-as-you-go pricing when you combine with cost savings from Azure Reserved Virtual Machine (VM) Instances.

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Dev/test pricing

Get discounted rates on Azure for ongoing development and testing, for services including Azure Virtual Machines, HDInsight, and App Service.

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*Savings based on D4_v2 three-year RI in West US 2 Region and Software Assurance cost (Level A) for Windows Server Standard edition (four 2-core licenses). Actual savings may vary based on region, instance type, usage or customer specific Windows Server license cost. Prices as of November 2017.

Other ways to pay for Azure

Explore more options for purchasing Azure, including through your Microsoft representative or as part of a managed service from a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider. Choose the best option for your organization.

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