Azure Monitor pricing
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Pay-As-You-GoPrice not published Pay for data ingested and other billable usage; listed prices vary by feature and region.Free platform metrics ingestion · First 1,000,000 platform metric query API calls per month included · Log retention included for 30, 31, or 90 days depending on data type Read 28 Sep 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
In short
- Azure Monitor has a free plan (Pay-As-You-Go).
- A free trial is offered.
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Elastic Container Service | $0.01/mo | Yes | No |
| OpenFaaS | $1,250/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service | $0.10/mo | No | No |
| Fly.io | $2.19/mo | No | Yes |
| Knative | — | Yes | No |
| Kubernetes | — | Yes | No |
| CAST AI | — | No | Yes |
| Heroku | $5/mo | No | No |