{"head":{"title":"Azure Pricing: VMs, Functions, Blob, PostgreSQL | OceanLab","description":"Azure prices for B-series VMs, Functions, Blob Storage, egress, Front Door and PostgreSQL in East US, from Microsoft's Retail Prices API. Estimate a month.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/azure"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","vendor":{"id":"azure","name":"Microsoft Azure","product":"Azure","categories":["cloud-hosting","serverless","object-storage","cdn","databases"],"source":"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"East US, pay-as-you-go, Linux, USD. Prices come from Microsoft's official Retail Prices API. A month is 730 hours. Front Door is the Standard tier, North America zone. Egress uses Microsoft's default network routing.","plans":[],"meters":[{"id":"vm-b2s","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"VM Standard_B2s (2 vCPU, 4 GB, burstable) Linux","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":30.368,"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"$0.0416/hour x 730 hours. Burstable B-series.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and armSkuName eq 'Standard_B2s' and priceType eq 'Consumption'"},{"id":"fn-requests","kind":"fn-requests","label":"Functions Consumption plan executions","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":0.2,"included":1000000,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"API lists $0.000002 per 10 executions after 100,000 units of 10 (= 1M free), so $0.20 per million.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Functions' and armRegionName eq 'eastus'"},{"id":"fn-gb-second","kind":"fn-gb-second","label":"Functions Consumption plan execution time","unit":"GB-second","per":1,"price":0.000016,"included":400000,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"First 400,000 GB-s per month free per subscription.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Functions' and armRegionName eq 'eastus'"},{"id":"storage-gb","kind":"storage-gb","label":"Blob Storage Hot LRS (General Purpose v2)","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":51200,"price":0.0208},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.019968},{"upTo":null,"price":0.019136}],"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"First 50 TB tier is $0.0208 per GB-month.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Storage' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and skuName eq 'Hot LRS' and productName eq 'General Block Blob v2'"},{"id":"storage-ops","kind":"storage-ops","label":"Blob Hot LRS write operations","unit":"operation","per":1000000,"price":5,"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"Listed as $0.05 per 10,000 writes, converted to per 1,000,000. Reads are $0.004 per 10,000.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Storage' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and skuName eq 'Hot LRS' and productName eq 'General Block Blob v2'"},{"id":"egress-gb","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Internet egress from East US (Microsoft network routing)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":100,"price":0},{"upTo":10335,"price":0.087},{"upTo":51295,"price":0.083},{"upTo":153695,"price":0.07},{"upTo":null,"price":0.05}],"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"First 100 GB a month free, then $0.087/GB.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Bandwidth' and armRegionName eq 'eastus'"},{"id":"cdn-gb","kind":"cdn-gb","label":"Front Door Standard, edge to client, Zone 1 North America","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0.0825},{"upTo":50000,"price":0.065002},{"upTo":150000,"price":0.056001},{"upTo":500000,"price":0.014083},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.00693},{"upTo":5000000,"price":0.005742},{"upTo":null,"price":0.005404}],"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"Zone 1","note":"Plus a $35/month Standard base fee and requests ($0.009 per 10,000 first tier).","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=productName eq 'Azure Front Door' and skuName eq 'Standard' and armRegionName eq 'Zone 1' and priceType eq 'Consumption'"},{"id":"cdn-base","kind":"other","label":"Front Door Standard base fee","unit":"profile-month","per":1,"price":35,"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"Zone 1","note":"Billed hourly for hours used.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=productName eq 'Azure Front Door' and skuName eq 'Standard' and armRegionName eq 'Zone 1' and priceType eq 'Consumption'"},{"id":"db-instance","kind":"db-instance","label":"PostgreSQL Flexible Server Burstable B1ms (1 vCore, 2 GiB)","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":12.41,"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","note":"$0.017/hour x 730 hours. Storage billed separately.","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Azure Database for PostgreSQL' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and contains(meterName,'B1MS')"},{"id":"db-storage-gb","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"PostgreSQL Flexible Server storage (SSD)","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.115,"included":0,"plan":null,"region":"eastus","source":"https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Azure Database for PostgreSQL' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and contains(meterName,'Storage')"}],"notes":[{"title":"Functions free grant","detail":"The Consumption plan includes 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-s free per month per subscription, on paid subscriptions only."},{"title":"Free egress","detail":"The first 100 GB of internet egress each month is free in all regions."},{"title":"Front Door has a base fee","detail":"Front Door Standard charges a fixed base fee, billed hourly, on top of data transfer and requests."},{"title":"New Functions plan","detail":"The newer Flex Consumption plan has a smaller grant (250,000 executions, 100,000 GB-s) and $0.000026 per GB-s on demand."}],"unverified":["Classic Azure CDN prices (Front Door Standard is shown instead)."]},"categories":[{"id":"cloud-hosting","name":"Cloud hosting","href":"/pricing/categories/cloud-hosting"},{"id":"serverless","name":"Serverless functions","href":"/pricing/categories/serverless"},{"id":"object-storage","name":"Object storage","href":"/pricing/categories/object-storage"},{"id":"cdn","name":"CDN","href":"/pricing/categories/cdn"},{"id":"databases","name":"Database","href":"/pricing/categories/databases"}],"siblings":[{"label":"AWS pricing","href":"/pricing/aws","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Cloudflare pricing","href":"/pricing/cloudflare","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"DigitalOcean pricing","href":"/pricing/digitalocean","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Firebase pricing","href":"/pricing/firebase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Fly.io pricing","href":"/pricing/fly-io","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Google Cloud pricing","href":"/pricing/google-cloud","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"MongoDB Atlas pricing","href":"/pricing/mongodb-atlas","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Neon pricing","href":"/pricing/neon","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Netlify pricing","href":"/pricing/netlify","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"PlanetScale pricing","href":"/pricing/planetscale","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Render pricing","href":"/pricing/render","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Supabase pricing","href":"/pricing/supabase","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."},{"label":"Vercel pricing","href":"/pricing/vercel","detail":"Plans and rates, checked 2026-10-25."}],"faqs":[{"question":"How much does Microsoft Azure cost?","answer":"Usage rates include VM Standard_B2s (2 vCPU, 4 GB, burstable) Linux at $30.37 per instance-month, functions Consumption plan executions at $0.20 per 1M requests and functions Consumption plan execution time at $0.000016 per GB-second. All checked on 2026-10-25."},{"question":"Is there a free tier on Microsoft Azure?","answer":"Yes. Functions Consumption plan executions: 1,000,000 requests a month at no charge, Functions Consumption plan execution time: 400,000 GB-second a month at no charge and Internet egress from East US (Microsoft network routing): 100 GB a month at no charge. The rates table shows which plan each allowance is on."},{"question":"What is not on Microsoft Azure's pricing page?","answer":"We could not confirm these on 2026-10-25, so the page shows no number for them: Classic Azure CDN prices (Front Door Standard is shown instead)."},{"question":"Where do these prices come from?","answer":"From Microsoft Azure's own pricing pages, starting at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/, checked on 2026-10-25. Every row links to the page it came from. East US, pay-as-you-go, Linux, USD. Prices come from Microsoft's official Retail Prices API. A month is 730 hours. Front Door is the Standard tier, North America zone. Egress uses Microsoft's default network routing."}]}