Quick answer
An Azure bill is each service's usage multiplied by its pay-as-you-go list price, with Premium SSD disks rounded up to fixed size tiers. On official Azure Retail Prices checked October 14, 2026 in East US, a D2s v5 virtual machine (2 vCPU, 8 GB, Linux) costs $70.08 a month plus $10.21 for a 64 GiB P6 disk, and a small SaaS app with two VMs, PostgreSQL, Blob Storage and 200 GB of bandwidth costs $316.04. Playxoft's free Azure cost calculator also prices it on AWS, Google Cloud and Cloudflare.
- VMs and disk tiers
- Functions and PostgreSQL
- Cosmos DB and Front Door
- 12 Azure regions
- Free grants applied
- Compare with 3 clouds
How to use the Azure Cost Calculator
- 1Pick a preset, or Start empty and add the Azure services you use: Virtual Machines, Functions, Blob Storage, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, bandwidth and Front Door.
- 2Choose one of 12 Regions, from East US and Brazil South to Japan East and Australia East.
- 3Fill in plain numbers: servers and their size, disk size, requests, GB stored and GB sent to users.
- 4Read your Azure total first, with AWS, Google Cloud and Cloudflare below for comparison.
- 5Open Cost breakdown to see which disk tier each server is billed at and how every line adds up.
How much does Azure cost per month?
Here is what four of the presets cost on Azure in each of the 12 regions, at pay-as-you-go list prices with the always-free allowances applied:
| Region | Small SaaS | Mobile app backend | Static site + API | Media and downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East | $316.04 | $103.80 | $89.95 | $1,012.10 |
| US West | $313.95 | $103.20 | $89.91 | $1,000.10 |
| Canada | $347.81 | $108.90 | $90.29 | $1,012.60 |
| Brazil (São Paulo) | $478.73 | $150.25 | $116.45 | $2,019.70 |
| Ireland | $347.11 | $107.90 | $90.23 | $1,018.10 |
| UK (London) | $365.01 | $112.01 | $90.52 | $1,012.10 |
| Germany (Frankfurt) | $372.32 | $111.23 | $90.46 | $1,009.60 |
| India | $380.82 | $116.90 | $105.42 | $1,339.30 |
| Singapore | $403.63 | $114.23 | $108.26 | $1,334.80 |
| Japan (Tokyo) | $412.54 | $115.04 | $108.29 | $1,334.80 |
| South Korea (Seoul) | $401.82 | $112.62 | $127.95 | $1,334.80 |
| Australia (Sydney) | $404.53 | $116.96 | $107.43 | $1,339.30 |
For the Small SaaS preset, US West is the cheapest region and Brazil (São Paulo) the most expensive. Internet egress after the free 100 GB costs $0.087 per GB in North America and Europe, $0.12 in Asia Pacific and $0.181 in Brazil South.
How much does an Azure VM cost per month?
Pay-as-you-go Linux prices in East US for a 730-hour month, before the managed disk:
| Instance | vCPU / memory | Per hour | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1s | 1 vCPU, 1 GB | $0.0104 | $7.59 |
| B2s | 2 vCPU, 4 GB | $0.0416 | $30.37 |
| D2s v5 | 2 vCPU, 8 GB | $0.096 | $70.08 |
| D4s v5 | 4 vCPU, 16 GB | $0.192 | $140.16 |
| D8s v5 | 8 vCPU, 32 GB | $0.384 | $280.32 |
The B-series sizes are burstable and suit light workloads; Microsoft plans to retire B-series v1 sizes, including B1s and B2s, on November 15, 2028. The Dsv5 sizes give steady, full-time CPU. Reserved Instances and savings plans lower these prices in exchange for a 1- or 3-year commitment.
What Azure prices does this calculator use?
These are the main unit prices, read from the Azure Retail Prices API on October 14, 2026 and checked against azure.microsoft.com:
| Region | D2s v5 /h | P10 disk /mo | Blob Hot /GB-mo | PostgreSQL D2ds v5 /h | Cosmos DB /M RU | Egress /GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East | $0.096 | $19.71 | $0.0208 | $0.178 | $0.25 | $0.087 |
| US West | $0.096 | $17.92 | $0.0184 | $0.178 | $0.25 | $0.087 |
| Canada | $0.107 | $19.712 | $0.02 | $0.1976 | $0.275 | $0.087 |
| Brazil (São Paulo) | $0.153 | $34.05 | $0.0326 | $0.24 | $0.375 | $0.181 |
| Ireland | $0.107 | $19.71 | $0.022 | $0.1976 | $0.283 | $0.087 |
| UK (London) | $0.111 | $23.848 | $0.0192 | $0.206 | $0.297 | $0.087 |
| Germany (Frankfurt) | $0.115 | $21.68 | $0.0196 | $0.212 | $0.305 | $0.087 |
| India | $0.101 | $19.71 | $0.02 | $0.25 | $0.285 | $0.12 |
| Singapore | $0.12 | $19.71 | $0.02 | $0.244 | $0.285 | $0.12 |
| Japan (Tokyo) | $0.124 | $22.67 | $0.02 | $0.244 | $0.285 | $0.12 |
| South Korea (Seoul) | $0.118 | $19.71 | $0.02 | $0.246 | $0.271 | $0.12 |
| Australia (Sydney) | $0.12 | $19.71 | $0.02 | $0.244 | $0.285 | $0.12 |
Details that change real bills:
- PostgreSQL Flexible Server high availability adds a standby billed at the same rate as the primary, so compute and storage double. It is not available on Burstable servers.
- Cosmos DB serverless bills request units: about 1 RU for a 1 KB point read and about 5.5 RU for a 1 KB write with indexing off, more with the default indexing.
- Front Door Standard has a $35 monthly base fee per profile, then per-GB and per-request charges by zone.
Why does Azure bill managed disks by size tier?
Azure Premium SSD disks are sold in fixed sizes, and a disk is billed at the smallest size that fits it, however much data is on it. A 50 GB disk is billed as a 64 GiB P6 disk. Prices in East US:
| Tier | Size | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| P4 | 32 GiB | $5.28 |
| P6 | 64 GiB | $10.21 |
| P10 | 128 GiB | $19.71 |
| P15 | 256 GiB | $38.01 |
| P20 | 512 GiB | $73.22 |
| P30 | 1,024 GiB | $135.17 |
| P40 | 2,048 GiB | $259.05 |
| P50 | 4,096 GiB | $495.57 |
So choose disk sizes just under a tier boundary: 64 GB costs the same as 50 GB, and 130 GB costs nearly twice as much as 128 GB. AWS and Google bill disks per GB, which is why the calculator rounds only Azure's disks.
Azure Functions: Consumption or Flex Consumption?
Azure Functions has two serverless plans:
- Consumption bills each execution: memory rounded up to the next 128 MB (up to 1.5 GB) times its duration, at least 100 ms, at $0.000016 per GB-second plus $0.20 per million executions. The first 1 million executions and 400,000 GB-seconds a month are free.
- Flex Consumption is the plan Microsoft recommends for new Linux apps. It bills the instance memory you choose (512 MB, 2 GB or 4 GB) for the time the instance is executing, at least 1 second, at $0.000026 per GB-second in East US and $0.40 per million executions. One instance runs many executions at once, so its cost depends on how busy it is.
The calculator uses the Consumption plan, because it bills each execution the same way Lambda does, which makes the comparison fair. Note that Linux apps on the Consumption plan retire on September 30, 2028; Windows apps are not affected.
What does the Azure free account include?
New customers get a $200 credit for 30 days and, for 12 months, some free monthly amounts such as 750 hours of a B1s VM and 750 hours of a B1ms PostgreSQL server with 32 GB of storage. Microsoft notes that the 12-month amounts are not available to customers who sign up directly for pay-as-you-go in India.
These allowances never expire, and the calculator applies them:
- Functions (Consumption plan): 1 million executions and 400,000 GB-seconds a month
- Internet egress: the first 100 GB each month
Cosmos DB's free tier applies only to provisioned throughput, not to the serverless option priced here.
How does Azure compare with AWS, Google Cloud and Cloudflare?
Each comparison prices both clouds at three usage levels in all 12 regions and compares their features from official documentation.
- [AWS vs Azure](/tools/cloud-pricing/aws-vs-azure): AWS and Azure list the same hourly price for general-purpose m6i and Dsv5 servers, so disks, egress, NoSQL and databases decide the total.
- [Google Cloud vs Azure](/tools/cloud-pricing/google-cloud-vs-azure): Google's automatic sustained use discount lowers always-on server costs, while Azure charges less for internet egress.
- [Azure vs Cloudflare](/tools/cloud-pricing/azure-vs-cloudflare): Cloudflare charges no egress fees and no base fee for its CDN, while Azure offers servers and a broad catalog billed per region.
Service by service: Amazon EC2 vs Azure Virtual Machines · Compute Engine vs Azure Virtual Machines · AWS Lambda vs Azure Functions · Amazon S3 vs Azure Blob Storage · Amazon RDS vs Azure Database for PostgreSQL · Amazon DynamoDB vs Azure Cosmos DB.
Where do these prices come from?
Every number comes from the provider's own published price list, read on October 14, 2026: the AWS Price List files, the Azure Retail Prices API, Google Cloud's pricing pages and Cloudflare's pricing documentation. Nothing is scraped from third-party sites, and each value was checked against a second official source where one exists.
- AWS: Amazon EC2 On-Demand pricing · AWS Lambda pricing · Amazon S3 pricing · Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL pricing · Amazon DynamoDB pricing · EC2 data transfer pricing · Amazon CloudFront pricing
- Google Cloud: Compute Engine VM pricing · Cloud Run pricing · Cloud Storage pricing · Cloud SQL pricing · Firestore pricing · Network (egress) pricing · Cloud CDN pricing
- Azure: Linux Virtual Machines pricing · Azure Functions pricing · Blob Storage pricing · Azure Database for PostgreSQL pricing · Cosmos DB serverless pricing · Bandwidth pricing · Azure Front Door pricing
- Cloudflare: Containers pricing · Workers pricing · R2 pricing · D1 pricing · Workers KV pricing · Cloudflare plans
Prices are in US dollars, on-demand, for Linux, with no commitments. Every figure on this page is generated from the same price snapshot as the calculator, and automated tests check each claim whenever the prices change. A month is 730 hours and 1 TB is 1,024 GB. Providers change prices from time to time, so for a purchase decision confirm the final figure in the provider's console.
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