Azure Pricing Calculator

This tool uses public Azure pay-as-you-go rates for East US as a starting point, covering the three cost drivers most projects hit first: compute, storage, and outbound data transfer. Microsoft's official pricing calculator covers every Azure service and region and lets you sign in for negotiated pricing, so treat this tool as a fast planning estimate and confirm final numbers there before committing budget.

The compute figure covers only the virtual machine hourly rate multiplied by how many hours it runs each month. It does not include managed disk costs beyond what you enter separately, public IP addresses, load balancers, or premium networking features — add those through the storage or other-services fields if your setup uses them.

No. Azure Virtual Desktop pricing depends on concurrent user sessions, FSLogix profile storage, and Microsoft 365 license eligibility, which this general infrastructure calculator does not model. Use the dedicated Azure Virtual Desktop Pricing Calculator or VDI Cost Calculator if you are pricing a virtual desktop deployment instead of application infrastructure.

A one- or three-year reserved instance commitment for the VM sizes you use can cut compute costs by up to 60 to 70% compared to the pay-as-you-go rate shown here. Azure Hybrid Benefit adds further savings on top of that if you already own Windows Server or SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance. This calculator uses pay-as-you-go pricing by default, so treat either discount as a reduction you apply afterward.

Azure does not charge for the first 100 GB of outbound data transfer per month, aggregated across most services in a billing account. This calculator applies that same allowance before calculating a charge, so entering 80 GB of monthly outbound traffic correctly shows $0 for data transfer.

Hot storage costs the most per gigabyte but has no retrieval fee, making it right for data your application reads and writes often. Cool storage lowers the per-gigabyte price for data accessed a few times a month but adds a retrieval charge. Archive storage is the cheapest per gigabyte by far, intended for backups or compliance data you rarely touch, and can take hours to retrieve when you need it.

No. Azure support plans are billed separately based on a percentage of monthly spend or a flat fee depending on the tier, and Marketplace charges depend entirely on which third-party products you deploy. Add either as a flat monthly amount in the other-services field if they apply to your project.

Use the other-services field to add a flat monthly figure for any service this calculator doesn't break out individually, such as a managed database, App Service plan, Key Vault, or Azure Front Door. Check that service's own pricing page for a rate, since managed services are usually billed by throughput or tier rather than by the hour.

Yes, because Azure bills most VM sizes by the hour they run, not by a flat monthly rate. Switching from an always-on schedule to roughly 217 hours a month (about 10 hours a day, five days a week) cuts the compute portion of your bill by close to 70%, which is exactly what the business-hours preset in this calculator models.

No. Every number you enter and every calculation this tool performs happens locally in your browser. Nothing you type — VM counts, storage amounts, or custom rates — is sent to a server or saved anywhere.