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Azure AI Bot Service delivers 10,000 free premium channel messages/mo, unlimited standard channel messages, and App Service hosting billed per Azure compute—perfect for large orgs.

Free - Web delivers 5,000 text records/month, 5,000 image analyses/month, and real-time API moderation—perfect for web developers.

Standard - Web delivers 5,000 free records/month, $0.38 per 1,000 text calls, and $0.75 per 1,000 image calls—perfect for developers integrating moderation APIs.

Free delivers 5,000 training images/project, 10,000 predictions/month, and 2 projects—perfect for developers and ML engineers.

Standard delivers $1 per 1,000 prediction transactions, $20 per training compute hour, and 100 projects per subscription—perfect for developers and ML teams.

Extract information quickly, accurately, and tailored to specific contents, without heavy manual intervention or extensive data science expertise.

Education/Nonprofit delivers text-to-speech, translation in 70+ languages, and 3M free characters + $5 per 1M overage—perfect for educators and nonprofits.

Standard delivers 3M free characters/month, text-to-speech with word highlighting, and translation to multiple languages—perfect for accessibility and education developers.

Free - Web delivers 5,000 text records/month, 1 free model endpoint, and up to 1 hour free training—perfect for developers.

Standard (S) - Web delivers 100+ language detection, named entity recognition, and text summarization—perfect for developers.

Free delivers 50,000 transactions/month free, reinforcement-learning ranking via REST API, and $25/1,000 overage rate—perfect for developers and product teams.

S0 delivers 50,000 free transactions/month, 10 GB storage per 1M transactions, and $1 per 1,000 transactions for first 1M—perfect for application developers.

Basic delivers 1 SU minimum at $73.73/month, 15 GB storage per partition, and 15 indexes per service—perfect for SMBs and dev teams.

Free delivers 50 MB storage, 3 indexes, and 10,000 documents—perfect for developers and prototypers.

Standard S1 delivers 1 Search Unit with 15 GB storage, up to 9 SUs per service, and 1,000 free semantic ranker requests/month—perfect for app developers.

Standard S2 delivers 1 search unit included, 160 GB storage per SU, and up to 36 SUs per service—perfect for developers and data teams.

Standard S3 delivers 1+ Search Units (up to 36 SUs), 200 indexes per service, and 1,000 free semantic ranker requests/month—perfect for web and app developers.

Storage Optimized L1 delivers 1 TB per partition, up to 12 partitions (12 TB) per service, and per-SU monthly pricing—perfect for large-scale search workloads.

Storage Optimized L2 delivers 2 TB/partition storage, up to 36 search units, and $5,604.21 per SU/month—perfect for enterprise search teams.

Azure AI Speech provides a wide range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech and speech translation.

F0 - Free delivers 2M characters/month standard translation, 2M characters/month custom translation, and REST API access—perfect for developers.

S1 – Pay as you go delivers neural translation for 100+ languages, standard translation at $10/1M chars, and document translation at $15/1M chars—perfect for developers.

Free trial account delivers 600 min web indexing, 2,400 min API indexing, and REST API & web portal access—perfect for developers and content teams.

For larger scale indexing, create a new Video Indexer account connected to a paid Microsoft Azure subscription.

Free (F0) - Web/Container delivers 5,000 transactions/month, 20 transactions/min rate limit, and Web API + Docker container deployment—perfect for developers.

Standard (S1) - Web/Container delivers $1–$1.50 per 1,000 API calls, $0.05/min video ingestion, and $0.014 per 1,000 text embedding calls—perfect for developers and IT teams.

Basic delivers 40 QPUs/10 GB (B1), 80 QPUs/16 GB (B2), and B1 pricing at $313.90/mo—perfect for small BI teams.

Developer delivers 10 QPUs, 3 GB memory, and Power BI connectivity—perfect for BI developers.

Standard delivers 40–1280 QPUs across S0–S9 v2 SKUs, 10–400GB model memory, and hourly pricing from $0.252–$8.064/hr—perfect for BI teams.

The Basic service plan is designed to run workloads that have low traffic requirements, and do not require advanced auto-scale and traffic management features.

An App Service Environment is an Azure App Service feature that provides a fully isolated and dedicated environment for running App Service apps securely at high scale

The free plan is intended for trials, experimentation, and learning the service.

Premium delivers 99.99% AZ SLA, P0v4-P5mv4 instance sizes, and IP SSL at $39/cert/mo—perfect for DevOps teams.

A0 delivers 1 vCPU, 0.75 GB RAM, and $0.02/hour pricing—perfect for low-traffic web apps.

A1 delivers 1 vCPU, 1.75 GB RAM, and 225 GB temporary storage—perfect for small-scale production and development teams.

A1v2 delivers 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 10 GB temporary SSD—perfect for devs and small test workloads.

A2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 3.5 GB RAM, and 490 GB temp storage—perfect for low-traffic websites and dev/test workloads.

A2mv2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 500 Mbps network throughput—perfect for dev/test and small web/database workloads.

A2v2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM, and 20 GiB local SSD—perfect for developers and small IT teams.

A3 delivers 4 vCPU cores, 7 GB RAM, and 1,000 GB temporary storage—perfect for web apps and small databases.

A4 delivers 8 CPU cores, 14 GB RAM, and 2,040 GB temporary storage—perfect for mid-sized web apps.

A4mv2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, and $0.40708/hr pricing—perfect for dev/test and small databases.

A4v2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 40 GB temporary storage—perfect for developers and DevOps teams.

A5 delivers 2 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 490 GB temporary storage—perfect for cloud engineers.

A6 delivers 4 vCPU, 28 GB RAM, and 1,000 GB temporary disk—perfect for large databases and SharePoint server farms.

A7 delivers 8 vCPU cores, 56 GB RAM, and 2,040 GB temporary storage—perfect for memory-intensive database and SharePoint workloads.

A8mv2 delivers 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, and 80 GB temp SSD—perfect for developers and DevOps teams.

A8v2 delivers 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 80 GB temporary storage—perfect for dev/test and low-traffic web servers.

D1 delivers 1 vCPU, 3.5 GB RAM, and 50 GB temporary storage—perfect for developers and small web apps.

D1 v2 delivers 1 vCPU, 3.5 GB RAM, and 50 GB temporary SSD—perfect for web and app developers.

D11 delivers 2 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 100 GB temporary storage—perfect for dev/test environments.

D11 v2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 14 GiB RAM, and 100 GB temporary SSD—perfect for memory-intensive production workloads.

D12 delivers 200 GB temporary SSD, high-memory VM capacity, and Windows/Linux VM support—perfect for large databases and high-throughput services.

D12 v2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 28 GB RAM, and 200 GB temporary SSD—perfect for DevOps and IT teams.

D13 delivers 8 CPU cores, 56 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary storage—perfect for large databases and high-throughput workloads.

D13 v2 delivers 8 vCPU, 56 GB RAM, and 400 GB SSD—perfect for enterprise IT and data teams.

D14 delivers 16 vCPUs, 112 GB RAM, and 800 GB temporary SSD—perfect for large-scale IT and data teams.

D14 v2 delivers 16 CPU cores, 112 GB RAM, and 800 GB temporary storage—perfect for large databases and analytics workloads.

D15 v2 delivers 20 vCPUs, 140 GB RAM, and $1,926.47/month VM pricing—perfect for memory-intensive workloads.

D16 v3 delivers 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary SSD—perfect for IT administrators and DevOps teams.

D2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 7 GB RAM, and 100 GB temporary storage—perfect for small web apps and development environments.

D2 v2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 7 GiB RAM, and 100 GB local SSD—perfect for web and worker role workloads.

D2 v3 delivers 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, and 50 GiB temporary storage—perfect for developers and IT administrators.

D3 delivers 4 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 200 GB temporary storage—perfect for developers and IT administrators.

D3 v2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 200 GB temporary storage—perfect for mid-market IT and app developers.

D32 v3 delivers 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, and 800 GB local SSD—perfect for production database and DevOps teams.


D4 v2 delivers 8 vCPUs, 28 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary SSD—perfect for cloud-hosted web and worker roles.

D4 v3 delivers 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 100 GB temporary SSD storage—perfect for enterprise applications and databases.

D48 v3 delivers 48 vCPUs, 192 GB memory, and 1,200 GB local SSD—perfect for database and analytics workloads.


D64 v3 delivers 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM, and 1,600 GiB local SSD—perfect for mid-to-large enterprise application and database workloads.

D8 v3 delivers 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, and 200 GiB temporary disk—perfect for enterprise applications.

E16 v3 delivers 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary storage—perfect for memory-intensive workloads.

E2 v3 delivers 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 50 GB temporary SSD—perfect for database and analytics workloads.

E20 v3 delivers 20 vCPUs, 160 GB RAM, and 500 GB temporary storage—perfect for SAP HANA and other memory-intensive large-scale workloads.

E32 v3 delivers 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM, and 800 GiB temporary storage—perfect for enterprise IT teams.

E4 v3 delivers 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, and 100 GB temporary storage—perfect for memory-intensive workloads.

E48 v3 delivers 48 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM, and 1,200 GB temp storage—perfect for memory-intensive production databases.

E64 v3 delivers 64 vCPUs, 432 GB RAM, and 1,600 GB temp SSD—perfect for data engineering and in-memory databases.

E8 v3 delivers 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB RAM, and 200 GB temporary disk—perfect for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

Save money across select compute services globally by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for 1 or 3 years, unlocking lower prices until reaching the hourly commitment

Pay as you go delivers up to 10,000-VM deployment, Spot/Reserved/Savings Plan pricing blend, and per-second VM billing—perfect for cloud architects.

Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances provide significant cost reduction, compared to pay-as-you-go rates, when committing to one-year or three-year terms.

Spot delivers 10,000-VM provisioning, up to 90% Spot discounts, and automatic Spot VM replacement—perfect for cloud architects and DevOps teams.

Basic delivers 10 GB storage, 1,000 read ops/min, and 100 write ops/min—perfect for developers and small teams.

Premium delivers $0.667/day registry fee, 500 GB included storage, and geo-replication per region at $0.667/day—perfect for DevOps and platform teams.

Standard delivers 100 GB storage, 500 write ops/min, and 3,000 read ops/min—perfect for DevOps teams.

Free delivers 5,000 catalog objects, unlimited users, and REST API registration—perfect for data teams.

Azure Data Catalog: Standard delivers $1/user/month billing, 100,000-asset catalog, and Catalog Search API—perfect for data stewards.

V2 delivers 90+ connectors, $0.25–$2.00 per activity run, and $1.50–$2.00/vCore-hour Data Flow runtime—perfect for data engineers.

V1 delivers visual pipeline authoring, 90+ connectors, and $1.00 per 1,000 activity runs—perfect for data engineers.

Azure Data Lake Storage delivers petabyte-scale storage, hierarchical namespace with POSIX ACLs, and Hot/Cool/Archive GB/month tiering—perfect for data engineers.

Premium All-Purpose Compute delivers $0.55/DBU-hour runtime, VM billing (e.g., DS13v2 $0.598/hr), and autoscaling clusters—perfect for data science and engineering teams.

Automated workloads to run fast and robust jobs via API or UI

Premium Jobs Light Compute delivers automated job scheduling, $0.22/DBU-hour billing, and managed Spark clusters—perfect for data engineering teams.

Includes interactive workloads to analyze data collaboratively with notebooks

Automated workloads to run fast and robust jobs via API or UI

Standard Jobs Light Compute delivers $0.22/DBU-hour billing, minute-level runtime metering, and autoscaling clusters—perfect for data engineers.

Basic delivers 1-20 throughput units, $0.028 per million events, and up to 32 partitions—perfect for data engineers and dev teams.

Dedicated delivers 1-20 Capacity Units per cluster, 10 TB storage/CU included, and 90-day retention—perfect for cloud architects.

Premium delivers 1-16 PUs at $1.027/hour per PU, 1 TB storage per PU, and 90-day event retention—perfect for data engineers and DevOps.

Standard delivers 1 MB/s ingress per TU, up to 7-day retention, and $0.028 per million ingress events—perfect for data engineers.

Azure HDInsight delivers managed Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka clusters, pay-per-node hourly billing, and Microsoft R Server at $0.016/core-hour—perfect for data engineers.

Azure HDInsight on Azure Kubernetes Service delivers managed AKS infrastructure, Apache Spark/Flink/Trino workloads, and per-vcore-per-hour autoscaled compute—perfect for data engineers.

Empower developers and data scientists with a wide range of productive experiences for building, training, and deploying machine learning models faster.

Azure Spot Virtual Machines delivers up to 90% off pay-as-you-go pricing, at least 30s eviction warning, and configurable per-VM max hourly price—perfect for batch processing and dev/test teams.

Basic delivers 2 vCPU/4GB app sizing, 50 vCPU-hrs and 100 GB-hrs monthly grants, and up to 25 app instances—perfect for individual developers.

Enterprise delivers 8 vCPU/32 GB max app instances, 1,000 max app instances, and 99.95% SLA—perfect for Spring developers.

Standard delivers 6 included vCPUs, 12 GB RAM per instance, and a 99.9% SLA—perfect for Spring Boot production teams.

The Standard consumption plan is hosted in Azure Container Apps environments and will interact with other apps running in the same environment with simplified networking and unified observability.

Dedicated delivers 12–66 SU V2 cluster scaling, 99.9% availability, and VNet/private endpoint connectivity—perfect for mission-critical streaming workloads.

Dedicated V2 delivers single-tenant dedicated clusters, 12–66 SU-V2 scaling, and VNet/Private Link private networking—perfect for data engineering teams.


Standard V2 delivers subsecond latency, 99.9% SLA, and SU V2 pricing from $0.0065/hr—perfect for data engineers.

Azure Synapse Analytics delivers serverless SQL pay-per-TB queries, dedicated SQL pools 100-30,000 DWU, and TB/month data storage billing—perfect for data teams.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service offering a secure, future-ready solution that can be used on-premises, in a hybrid environment, or in a multi-cloud setting.

Defender for Cloud delivers Azure, AWS, and GCP protection, $10/account/month for Defender for Storage, and per-VM monthly Defender for Servers plans—perfect for CISOs and cloud security teams.

Microsoft Sentinel delivers 500MB/VM/day Defender for Servers free ingestion—perfect for SOC teams.
| Supplier | Microsoft | Adobe |
|---|---|---|
| Median Contract Value | $61,826 | $63,843 |
| Avg Savings | 9.77% | 11.39% |