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| Azure free services | Description | Free monthly amount | Free period |
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Detect anomalies in data to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues. |
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20,000 transactions of free tier |
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| Develop intelligent, enterprise-grade bots that scale on demand. | 10,000 premium channel messages and unlimited standard channel messages | Always | |
| Moderate text and images to provide a safer, more positive user experience. | 5,000 text records or 5,000 images of free tier | Always | |
| Easily customize computer vision models for your unique use case. | 10,000 predictions S0 tier, one training hour, two projects with 5,000 training images each | 12 months | |
| Automate the extraction of text, key/value pairs, and tables from your documents. | 500 pages S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Embed text reading and comprehension capabilities into applications. | 3 million characters | Always | |
| Extract information such as sentiment, key phrases, named entities, and language from your text. | 5,000 text records | Always | |
| Embed AI-powered monitoring features to proactively diagnose issues. | Up to 25 time series of standard tier | Always | |
| Deliver rich, personalized experiences for every user. | 50,000 transactions S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Include a cloud search service in your web and mobile application. | 50 MB storage for 10,000 hosted documents and 3 indexes per service | Always | |
| Accurately verify and identify speakers by their unique voice characteristics. | 10,000 transactions each of speaker verification, speaker identification, and voice profile storage | Always | |
| Transcribe spoken audio to text. | 5 audio hours each of Standard, Custom, and Conversation Transcription Multichannel Audio, 1 Custom endpoint hosting model | Always | |
| Integrate real-time speech translation into your app. | 5 audio hours Standard | Always | |
| Build apps that convert text to lifelike speech. | 0.5 million neural characters per month | Always | |
| Add real-time, multi-language text translation to your apps, websites, and tools. | 2 million characters free tier | Always | |
| Extract rich information from images to categorize and process visual data. | 5,000 transactions for each S1, S2, and S3 tier | 12 months | |
| Detect, identify, analyze, organize, and tag faces in images. | 30,000 transactions of Free instance | Always | |
| Detect, identify, analyze, organize, and tag faces in images. | 30,000 transactions S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Build and deploy AI-powered, compliant, conversational healthcare experiences at scale. | 3,000 messages (up to 10 messages per second) | Always | |
| Build natural language understanding into apps, bots, and IoT devices. | 10,000 text request transactions S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Develop and run R and Python models on your platform of choice. | Free | Always | |
| Accelerate machine learning with curated datasets. | Free (egress charges may apply) | Always | |
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| Get more value from your enterprise data assets. | Unlimited users | Always | |
| Compose and manage data services at scale. | 5 low-frequency activities | Always | |
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| Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs globally with a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS). | Up to 10 web or API apps with 1 GB storage and 1 hour per day | Always | |
| Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. | AKS cluster management is free; you’ll incur a charge for resources consumed by nodes | Always | |
| Streamline the build, update, patch, management, and operation of Linux and Windows VM images. | VM Image Builder is a free service. You may incur a charge if your build transfers data or uses paid Azure services. | Always | |
| Scale your application in the cloud with job orchestration and scheduling for HPC applications. | Free | Always | |
| Process events with a serverless code architecture. | 1 million requests | Always | |
| Streamline full-stack development from source code to global high availability. | 100 GB bandwidth per subscription, 2 custom domains and .5 GB storage per app | Always | |
| Create Linux virtual machines (VMs) in seconds to meet your workload and budget needs. | 750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs | 12 months | |
| Create Windows VMs in seconds to meet your workload and budget needs. | 750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs | 12 months | |
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| Manage persistent storage volumes for stateful container applications. | This service will offer a free tier for deployments with storage pool capacity under 5 TiB. | Always | |
| Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers. | 180,000 vCPU seconds, 360,000 GiB seconds, and 2 million requests | Always | |
| Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments. | 1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks | 12 months | |
| Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps. | Free | Always | |
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| Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs. | 400 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage | 12 months | |
| Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs. | 1,000 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage | Always | |
| Build modern apps at scale with a fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service. | A dedicated MongoDB cluster with 32 GB storage | Always | |
| Host a fully managed, scalable MySQL database in Azure. | 750 hours of Flexible Server—Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32 GB backup storage | 12 months | |
| Build intelligent, scalable apps with fully managed database for PostgreSQL. | 750 hours of Flexible Server—Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32 GB backup storage | 12 months | |
| Modernize existing apps with a fully managed SQL instance on Azure. | 750 vCore hours per month with 32 GB of storage | 12 months | |
| Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud. | Free Standard Compute | Always | |
| Create a SQL database that delivers intelligence built-in. | Get up to 10 databases with 100,000 vCore seconds of serverless tier and 32 GB of storage each | Always | |
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| Store and manage configurations for all your Azure apps. | 1,000 requests per day with 10 MB storage | Always | |
| Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates. | Azure Deployment Environments is a free service today. However, you will be charged for other Azure resources like compute, storage, and networking that are created in environments deployed through the service. | Always | |
| Build apps in any language using Git repos, CI/CD, and build and release automation. | 5 users with unlimited private Git repos | Always | |
| Enable fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments. | Free | Always | |
| Boost productivity with a powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development. | Free | Always | |
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| Extend Azure management and services. | Free Azure control plane functionality for resources outside Azure, search and indexing for Azure Arc-enabled resources | Always | |
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| Identity and access management for your customer-facing apps | 50,000 active users per month (MAU) with Azure Active Directory B2C | Always | |
| Enable identity and access management in the cloud. | 50,000 stored objects with single sign-on (SSO) to all cloud apps | Always | |
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| Manage APIs across all platforms with a hybrid, multicloud platform. | 1 million monthly calls free with Consumption tier | Always | |
| Get reliable event delivery at massive scale. | 100,000 operations per month | Always | |
| Unify and manage health data and protected health information (PHI) in the cloud. | 1 GB structured and blob storage, 50,000 API requests, .5 GB transformation operations, 100,000 events | Always | |
| Build automated integration solutions across clouds and on-premises systems. | 4,000 built-in actions with the Consumption plan | Always | |
| Get reliable cloud messaging as a service with simple hybrid integration. | 750 hours and 13 million operations Standard tier base unit | 12 months | |
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| Create location-aware web and mobile applications using geospatial services, APIs, and SDKs. | 1,000 to 5,000 transactions for specific mapping and location insights features | Always | |
| Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to IoT edge devices. | Free, open-source edge runtime | Always | |
| Connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets with a scalable platform. | 8,000 messages per day and .5 KB message meter size of Free edition | Always | |
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| Get personalized recommendations and best practices for Azure. | Unlimited | Always | |
| Simplify cloud management with process automation. | 500 minutes of job runtime | Always | |
| Simplify and optimize IT management with automated operations. | There are no charges specifically for Automanage. Azure services that are onboarded through Automanage will be billed individually. | Always | |
| Manage service providers with Zero Trust access controls. | Free | Always | |
| Make it easier to acquire services with a catalog of approved cloud offerings. | Free publishing | Always | |
| Achieve real-time cloud compliance at scale with consistent resource governance. | Free access to configuration and change tracking features | Always | |
| Simplify how you move multiple resources between Azure regions. | Free (ingress and egress charges may apply) | Always | |
| Centrally govern and manage software updates at scale. | Free for Azure resources (charged for Arc-enabled servers) – see pricing page for details. | Always | |
| Manage Azure resources in a browser-based shell using popular command-line tools and programming languages. | 5 GB free storage in Azure Files for 12 months | Always | |
| Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency. | Free | Always | |
| Gain full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network. | See Azure Monitor pricing details for free amounts per feature | Always | |
| Simplify how you manage your app resources. | Free | Always | |
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| Discover, assess, right-size, and migrate your on-premises virtual machines to Azure. | Free | Always | |
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| Send push notifications to any platform from any back end. | 1 million push notifications with free namespace | Always | |
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| Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centers. | 15 GB outbound | 12 months | |
| Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centers. | 100 GB outbound | Always | |
| Instantly add scale, availability, and network performance to your applications. | 750 hours, 15 GB of data processing, and up to five rules with Standard Load Balancer | 12 months | |
| Monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance and health. | 5 GB storage with 1,000 checks, 10 tests, and 10 connection metrics | Always | |
| Privately access services on Azure, keeping your data on the Microsoft network. | Free | Always | |
| Provision private networks and connect to on-premises datacenters. | 50 virtual networks | Always | |
| Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity. | 750 hours VpnGw1 Gateway Type | 12 months | |
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| Verify the identity and security posture of trusted platform modules and trusted execution environments. | Free | Always | |
| Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets. | 10,000 transactions RSA 2048-bit keys or secret operations, Standard tier | 12 months | |
| Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources. | Free policy assessment and recommendations | Always | |
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| Store and manage rarely accessed data with locally redundant storage (LRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS). | 10 GB LRS storage, 10 GB LRS or GRS write and retrieval, and 100 reads | 12 months | |
| Migrate to simple, distributed, cross-platform file storage without changing code. | 100 GB of LRS transaction optimized, hot, and cool files. 2 million read, list, and other file operations | 12 months | |
| Use massively scalable object storage for any type of unstructured data. | 5 GB locally redundant storage (LRS) hot block with 20,000 read and 10,000 write operations | 12 months | |
| Get high performance, durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines with simplified management. | 2 64 GB (P6) solid state drives SSD storage, plus 1 GB snapshot and 2 million I/O operations | 12 months | |
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| Add real-time communications into your web applications. | 20 concurrent connections per unit and 20,000 messages | Always | |
| Build real-time, two-way communication into your web and mobile apps. | 20,000 messages per unit per day and 20 concurrent connections per unit (1 unit max) | Always |
Azure free services | Description | Free monthly amount | Free period |
|---|---|---|---|
| | |||
| Detect anomalies in data to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues. | 20,000 transactions of free tier | Always | |
| Develop intelligent, enterprise-grade bots that scale on demand. | 10,000 premium channel messages and unlimited standard channel messages | Always | |
| Moderate text and images to provide a safer, more positive user experience. | 5,000 text records or 5,000 images of free tier | Always | |
| Embed text reading and comprehension capabilities into applications. | 3 million characters | Always | |
| Extract information such as sentiment, key phrases, named entities, and language from your text. | 5,000 text records | Always | |
| Embed AI-powered monitoring features to proactively diagnose issues. | Up to 25 time series of standard tier | Always | |
| Include a cloud search service in your web and mobile application. | 50 MB storage for 10,000 hosted documents and 3 indexes per service | Always | |
| Accurately verify and identify speakers by their unique voice characteristics. | 10,000 transactions each of speaker verification, speaker identification, and voice profile storage | Always | |
| Transcribe spoken audio to text. | 5 audio hours each of Standard, Custom, and Conversation Transcription Multichannel Audio, 1 Custom endpoint hosting model | Always | |
| Integrate real-time speech translation into your app. | 5 audio hours Standard | Always | |
| Build apps that convert text to lifelike speech. | 0.5 million neural characters per month | Always | |
| Add real-time, multi-language text translation to your apps, websites, and tools. | 2 million characters free tier | Always | |
| Detect, identify, analyze, organize, and tag faces in images. | 30,000 transactions of Free instance | Always | |
| Build and deploy AI-powered, compliant, conversational healthcare experiences at scale. | 3,000 messages (up to 10 messages per second) | Always | |
| Develop and run R and Python models on your platform of choice. | Free | Always | |
| Accelerate machine learning with curated datasets. | Free (egress charges may apply) | Always | |
| | |||
| Get more value from your enterprise data assets. | Unlimited users | Always | |
| Compose and manage data services at scale. | 5 low-frequency activities | Always | |
| | |||
| Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs globally with a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS). | Up to 10 web or API apps with 1 GB storage and 1 hour per day | Always | |
| Deploy and manage containers using the tools you choose. | AKS cluster management is free; you’ll incur a charge for resources consumed by nodes | Always | |
| Streamline the build, update, patch, management, and operation of Linux and Windows VM images. | VM Image Builder is a free service. You may incur a charge if your build transfers data or uses paid Azure services. | Always | |
| Scale your application in the cloud with job orchestration and scheduling for HPC applications. | Free | Always | |
| Process events with a serverless code architecture. | 1 million requests | Always | |
| Streamline full-stack development from source code to global high availability. | 100 GB bandwidth per subscription, 2 custom domains and .5 GB storage per app | Always | |
| | |||
| Manage persistent storage volumes for stateful container applications. | This service will offer a free tier for deployments with storage pool capacity under 5 TiB. | Always | |
| Build and deploy modern apps and microservices using serverless containers. | 180,000 vCPU seconds, 360,000 GiB seconds, and 2 million requests | Always | |
| Build and operate always-on, scalable, distributed apps. | Free | Always | |
| | |||
| Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs. | 1,000 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage | Always | |
| Build modern apps at scale with a fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service. | A dedicated MongoDB cluster with 32 GB storage | Always | |
| Simplify on-premises database migration to the cloud. | Free Standard Compute | Always | |
| Create a SQL database that delivers intelligence built-in. | Get up to 10 databases with 100,000 vCore seconds of serverless tier and 32 GB of storage each | Always | |
| | |||
| Store and manage configurations for all your Azure apps. | 1,000 requests per day with 10 MB storage | Always | |
| Quickly spin up app infrastructure environments with project-based templates. | Azure Deployment Environments is a free service today. However, you will be charged for other Azure resources like compute, storage, and networking that are created in environments deployed through the service. | Always | |
| Build apps in any language using Git repos, CI/CD, and build and release automation. | 5 users with unlimited private Git repos | Always | |
| Enable fast, easy, and lean dev-test environments. | Free | Always | |
| Boost productivity with a powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development. | Free | Always | |
| | |||
| Extend Azure management and services. | Free Azure control plane functionality for resources outside Azure, search and indexing for Azure Arc-enabled resources | Always | |
| | |||
| Identity and access management for your customer-facing apps | 50,000 active users per month (MAU) with Azure Active Directory B2C | Always | |
| Enable identity and access management in the cloud. | 50,000 stored objects with single sign-on (SSO) to all cloud apps | Always | |
| | |||
| Manage APIs across all platforms with a hybrid, multicloud platform. | 1 million monthly calls free with Consumption tier | Always | |
| Get reliable event delivery at massive scale. | 100,000 operations per month | Always | |
| Unify and manage health data and protected health information (PHI) in the cloud. | 1 GB structured and blob storage, 50,000 API requests, .5 GB transformation operations, 100,000 events | Always | |
| Build automated integration solutions across clouds and on-premises systems. | 4,000 built-in actions with the Consumption plan | Always | |
| | |||
| Create location-aware web and mobile applications using geospatial services, APIs, and SDKs. | 1,000 to 5,000 transactions for specific mapping and location insights features | Always | |
| Extend cloud intelligence and analytics to IoT edge devices. | Free, open-source edge runtime | Always | |
| Connect, monitor, and manage IoT assets with a scalable platform. | 8,000 messages per day and .5 KB message meter size of Free edition | Always | |
| | |||
| Get personalized recommendations and best practices for Azure. | Unlimited | Always | |
| Simplify cloud management with process automation. | 500 minutes of job runtime | Always | |
| Simplify and optimize IT management with automated operations. | There are no charges specifically for Automanage. Azure services that are onboarded through Automanage will be billed individually. | Always | |
| Manage service providers with Zero Trust access controls. | Free | Always | |
| Make it easier to acquire services with a catalog of approved cloud offerings. | Free publishing | Always | |
| Achieve real-time cloud compliance at scale with consistent resource governance. | Free access to configuration and change tracking features | Always | |
| Simplify how you move multiple resources between Azure regions. | Free (ingress and egress charges may apply) | Always | |
| Centrally govern and manage software updates at scale. | Free for Azure resources (charged for Arc-enabled servers) – see pricing page for details. | Always | |
| Manage Azure resources in a browser-based shell using popular command-line tools and programming languages. | 5 GB free storage in Azure Files for 12 months | Always | |
| Monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud costs with transparency, accuracy, and efficiency. | Free | Always | |
| Gain full observability into your applications, infrastructure, and network. | See Azure Monitor pricing details for free amounts per feature | Always | |
| Simplify how you manage your app resources. | Free | Always | |
| | |||
| Discover, assess, right-size, and migrate your on-premises virtual machines to Azure. | Free | Always | |
| | |||
| Send push notifications to any platform from any back end. | 1 million push notifications with free namespace | Always | |
| | |||
| Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centers. | 100 GB outbound | Always | |
| Monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into your network performance and health. | 5 GB storage with 1,000 checks, 10 tests, and 10 connection metrics | Always | |
| Privately access services on Azure, keeping your data on the Microsoft network. | Free | Always | |
| Provision private networks and connect to on-premises datacenters. | 50 virtual networks | Always | |
| | |||
| Verify the identity and security posture of trusted platform modules and trusted execution environments. | Free | Always | |
| Prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility and control over the security of your Azure resources. | Free policy assessment and recommendations | Always | |
| | |||
| Add real-time communications into your web applications. | 20 concurrent connections per unit and 20,000 messages | Always | |
| Build real-time, two-way communication into your web and mobile apps. | 20,000 messages per unit per day and 20 concurrent connections per unit (1 unit max) | Always |
| Azure free services | Description | Free monthly amount | Free period |
|---|---|---|---|
| | |||
| Easily customize computer vision models for your unique use case. | 10,000 predictions S0 tier, one training hour, two projects with 5,000 training images each | 12 months | |
| Automate the extraction of text, key/value pairs, and tables from your documents. | 500 pages S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Deliver rich, personalized experiences for every user. | 50,000 transactions S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Extract rich information from images to categorize and process visual data. | 5,000 transactions for each S1, S2, and S3 tier | 12 months | |
| Detect, identify, analyze, organize, and tag faces in images. | 30,000 transactions S0 tier | 12 months | |
| Build natural language understanding into apps, bots, and IoT devices. | 10,000 text request transactions S0 tier | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Create Linux virtual machines (VMs) in seconds to meet your workload and budget needs. | 750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs | 12 months | |
| Create Windows VMs in seconds to meet your workload and budget needs. | 750 hours each of B1s, B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Store and manage container images across all types of Azure deployments. | 1 Standard tier registry with 100 GB storage and 10 webhooks | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Build modern apps at any scale using a fast NoSQL database with open APIs. | 400 request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage | 12 months | |
| Host a fully managed, scalable MySQL database in Azure. | 750 hours of Flexible Server—Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32 GB backup storage | 12 months | |
| Build intelligent, scalable apps with fully managed database for PostgreSQL. | 750 hours of Flexible Server—Burstable B1MS Instance, 32 GB storage, and 32 GB backup storage | 12 months | |
| Modernize existing apps with a fully managed SQL instance on Azure. | 750 vCore hours per month with 32 GB of storage | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Get reliable cloud messaging as a service with simple hybrid integration. | 750 hours and 13 million operations Standard tier base unit | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Transfer data inbound and outbound through our robust network of global data centers. | 15 GB outbound | 12 months | |
| Instantly add scale, availability, and network performance to your applications. | 750 hours, 15 GB of data processing, and up to five rules with Standard Load Balancer | 12 months | |
| Establish secure, cross-premises connectivity. | 750 hours VpnGw1 Gateway Type | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Safeguard and maintain control of keys and other secrets. | 10,000 transactions RSA 2048-bit keys or secret operations, Standard tier | 12 months | |
| | |||
| Store and manage rarely accessed data with locally redundant storage (LRS) or geo-redundant storage (GRS). | 10 GB LRS storage, 10 GB LRS or GRS write and retrieval, and 100 reads | 12 months | |
| Migrate to simple, distributed, cross-platform file storage without changing code. | 100 GB of LRS transaction optimized, hot, and cool files. 2 million read, list, and other file operations | 12 months | |
| Use massively scalable object storage for any type of unstructured data. | 5 GB locally redundant storage (LRS) hot block with 20,000 read and 10,000 write operations | 12 months | |
| Get high performance, durable block storage for Azure Virtual Machines with simplified management. | 2 64 GB (P6) solid state drives SSD storage, plus 1 GB snapshot and 2 million I/O operations | 12 months |
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