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Microsoft Cost Management

Manage your cloud cost with confidence.
Leverage the latest in Copilot in Azure to bring you insights, accountability controls, and the ability to remediate when opportunities arise.
Overview

Manage your cloud investment with Microsoft Cost Management

  • Track usage, monitor expenses, identify cost anomalies, and forecast your expenditures.
  • Create governance policies and increase accountability with budgets and cost allocation.
  • Evaluate and take action on personalized recommendations
Features

Optimize your cloud costs

Microsoft Copilot in Azure (preview) extends capabilities to Cost Management

Summarize costs, compare usage, and isolate fluctuations so you can focus on creating efficiencies to support your day-to-day operations. Browse the documentation to learn more about Copilot in Azure preview.

Cost analysis

Categorize your cloud costs by resource group, service, location, or tag, or create custom filters to focus on the data that matters to you.

Budgets

Set limits for your cloud spending by specifying time-period, amount, and alert threshold for your budget.

Cost alerts

Stay informed by configuring notifications based on budgets, or use built-in alert rules for common scenarios, such as spending spikes or drops.

Cost allocation

Distribute your cloud costs across different business units, projects, or customers. Categorize your resources and create cost allocation rules to split or move costs between them.

Exports

Create custom reports, perform in-depth analysis, and integrate cost data with other business systems to gain greater insight into your spending and usage patterns.
Security

Built-in security and compliance

Microsoft has committed to investing $20 billion in cybersecurity over five years. 
We employ more than 8,500 security and threat intelligence experts across 77 countries. 
Azure has one of the largest compliance certification portfolios in the industry. 
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Pricing

Optimize your spending

Copilot in Azure

Microsoft Cost Management uses Copilot in Azure to provide insights, accountability controls, and the ability to remediate when opportunities arise.
Customer stories

See how customers are optimizing their cloud spending with Cost Management

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“Working with Microsoft has been really powerful. Getting access to features that provide cost management and being able to interact directly with the Microsoft team has made a big difference to our ability to get to the right cost place.”
Ian Margetts, Infrastructure Services Lead, ASOS
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

  • Microsoft Cost Management helps organizations analyze, monitor, and optimize their Microsoft Cloud costs. Cost Management is available to anyone with access to an Azure billing account, subscription, resource group, or management group.
  • The following page shows a list of all active offers, If the offer is active, it is supported by Microsoft Cost Management.
  • Microsoft Cost Management for Azure is available at no additional cost.

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Get started

Get started with Cost Management

Microsoft Cost Management uses Copilot in Azure to provide insights, accountability controls, and the ability to remediate when opportunities arise.
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Account signup

Get started with a free account

Start with $200 Azure credit
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Account signup

Get started with pay-as-you-go pricing

There’s no upfront commitment – cancel anytime.
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