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HOW TO USE THIS CALCULATOR

Estimate your Azure bill in three steps

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Configure your resources

Select your Azure VM series (B, D, E series) or Storage Account type and region. Prices vary by location — East US is usually the baseline.

2

Set usage and quantity

Select hours or days of operation and instance count for your Azure workloads. Full-time production runs 730 hours per month.

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Compare and decide

Compare 1-year and 3-year Azure Savings Plans against On-Demand pricing to find optimal savings for your infrastructure.

CHOOSE A CALCULATOR

Which Azure service are you pricing?

Virtual Machines

Compute billed per hour. Size VMs, compare series and regions, and weigh pay-as-you-go against reservations and Azure Hybrid Benefit.

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Storage Accounts

Storage billed on capacity, transactions, and retrieval. Compare access tiers and redundancy options against your real access pattern.

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PRICING MODEL

How Azure pricing works

Azure bills by consumption, but the unit differs sharply between services. Virtual Machines charge per hour at a rate set by series, size, region, and operating system licence. Storage Accounts charge per GB held, plus every transaction against the data and every gigabyte read back from a cool tier. Because the units differ, a single monthly figure is only meaningful once each service has been estimated on its own terms and then combined.

Three factors cut across everything. Region sets the base rate, and the cheapest region for compute is not necessarily cheapest for storage. Commitment is the deepest discount available, through one and three year reservations or an Azure savings plan for compute. Licensing is the factor with no equivalent on other clouds: Windows Server and SQL Server carry per-core charges on top of compute, and Azure Hybrid Benefit can remove most of that if you already hold licences with Software Assurance.

What drives your Azure bill

Service mix

Most bills are dominated by one or two services rather than spread evenly. Estimating the largest contributors carefully matters more than pricing every small component precisely.

Region

Rates differ by location for compute and storage alike. East US and West Europe are typically among the cheaper options, while smaller and more remote regions carry a premium.

Reservations and savings plans

One and three year commitments discount steeply in exchange for predictability. Reservations bind to a size and region; savings plans commit to hourly spend and keep more flexibility.

Licensing

Windows Server and SQL Server add per-core licence charges on top of compute. Azure Hybrid Benefit applies licences you already own and removes most of that premium.

Redundancy and bandwidth

Storage redundancy multiplies the capacity charge as replication widens from one datacentre to a paired region. Outbound bandwidth is billed per GB on top of both.

Azure pricing questions

Which Azure services does this calculator cover?
It covers the two services that dominate most Azure bills: Virtual Machines for compute and Storage Accounts for data. Each has its own calculator with the cost drivers specific to it, and you can move between them using the tabs without losing your estimate.
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