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1yr Plan
- 38%
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- 62%
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HOW TO USE THIS CALCULATOR

Estimate your Azure bill in three steps

1

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.

PRICING MODEL

How Azure Virtual Machines pricing works

Azure prices virtual machines per hour at a rate set by the series, the size within that series, and the region. Series target distinct workload shapes: B for burstable low-baseline work, D for general purpose, E for memory-heavy applications, F for compute-bound processing, L for local storage throughput, and N for GPU workloads. Choosing the wrong series is usually more expensive than choosing the wrong size, because the price per vCPU differs substantially between them.

Two Azure-specific factors move the bill more than size does. The first is licensing: a Windows Server VM costs materially more per hour than the identical Linux VM, and Azure Hybrid Benefit lets you apply existing Windows Server or SQL Server licences to remove much of that premium. The second is commitment, through one and three year Reserved Instances or an Azure savings plan for compute. Managed disks, public IP addresses, and outbound bandwidth are billed separately from the VM itself.

What drives your Virtual Machines bill

Series and size

B, D, E, F, L, and N series carry different rates per vCPU. A memory-optimised E series costs considerably more than a D series with the same core count.

Region

The same VM size is priced differently by region. East US and West Europe are typically among the cheaper options, while smaller and more remote regions carry a premium.

Operating system licensing

Linux VMs carry no licence charge. Windows Server adds a per-core licence on top of the compute rate, which weighs proportionally heavier on smaller VM sizes.

Reservations and savings plans

One and three year Reserved Instances discount steeply for a specific size in a region. An Azure savings plan for compute trades some of that discount for flexibility across sizes.

Disks and bandwidth

Managed disks are billed on provisioned size and performance tier whether or not the VM runs. Outbound data transfer is billed per GB and is not included in the VM rate.

Virtual Machines pricing questions

How accurate is this Azure Virtual Machines calculator?
Rates are based on published Microsoft Azure pricing for each region and are refreshed regularly. Your actual bill can differ once managed disks, outbound bandwidth, support plans, and any Enterprise Agreement pricing are included, so treat the figure as a planning baseline.
How is the monthly VM cost calculated?
What is Azure Hybrid Benefit?
Should I choose a Reserved Instance or a savings plan?
Why do Azure VM prices differ by region?
Are managed disks included in the estimate?