Azure Cost Calculator 2026 — VMs & Blob Storage
Estimate your monthly Microsoft Azure spend before you deploy. Model Virtual Machine compute hours or Blob Storage costs — including redundancy tier, egress bandwidth, and reserved instance savings — with a clear, editable cost breakdown.
Compute or Storage?
Azure bills are usually driven by two things: how much virtual machine compute you run, and how much data you store and move. Pick a calculator below — rates are fully editable, so you can plug in your own negotiated or region-specific pricing from the Azure portal.
Virtual Machine Cost Calculator
Enter your VM details to get an estimated monthly compute cost
Pre-filled with an illustrative rate close to a D2s v5 pay-as-you-go instance. Replace with your VM size’s actual rate from the Azure portal.
730 ≈ running 24/7 all month. Lower this if the VM auto-shuts-down outside business hours.
1-year and 3-year commitments typically cut hourly compute rates significantly versus pay-as-you-go.
Virtual Machine Result
Estimated monthly compute and disk cost
Fill in your instance rate, hours, and count, then click Estimate My VM Cost to see your monthly total.
Blob Storage Cost Calculator
Enter your storage details to get an estimated monthly cost
Choosing a tier fills in an illustrative per-GB rate below, which you can still edit.
Inbound data transfer is typically free. The first several GB of egress per month is often free too — check your current allowance.
Relevant for high-frequency access patterns — usually a small fraction of total storage cost.
Blob Storage Result
Estimated monthly storage and transfer cost
Fill in your storage volume, redundancy tier, and egress, then click Estimate My Storage Cost to see your monthly total.
Illustrative Azure Rate Ranges
Example rate bands to help you sanity-check your inputs. Actual Azure pricing varies by region, currency, and any enterprise agreement — always confirm exact current rates on the official Azure Pricing Calculator before budgeting.
| Resource | Typical Rate | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Small VM (B2s-class) | ~$0.04 – $0.09/hr | 2 vCPU burstable, pay-as-you-go |
| General purpose VM (D2s v5-class) | ~$0.10 – $0.20/hr | 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM |
| Reserved instance discount | ~30% – 60% | Versus pay-as-you-go, 1–3 yr term |
| Blob Storage — LRS Hot | ~$0.018/GB/mo | Cheapest redundancy tier |
| Blob Storage — GRS Hot | ~$0.037/GB/mo | Geo-redundant, higher durability |
| Outbound data transfer | ~$0.05 – $0.09/GB | Inbound transfer is typically free |
Azure Cost Calculator FAQ
Everything cloud teams ask before budgeting their Azure spend in 2026.
An Azure cost calculator helps you estimate what your monthly cloud bill will look like before you deploy resources, based on inputs like virtual machine size, running hours, storage volume, redundancy tier, and outbound data transfer. It’s useful for budgeting, comparing configurations, and spotting cost drivers before committing to a deployment.
Pay-as-you-go pricing charges you by the second or hour for compute you actually use, with no upfront commitment and the ability to stop anytime. Reserved instances (1-year or 3-year terms) commit you to a fixed amount of compute capacity in exchange for a meaningfully lower hourly rate, which pays off for workloads that run continuously.
The biggest drivers are usually virtual machine size and how many hours it runs, storage volume and redundancy tier, and outbound (egress) data transfer, since inbound data transfer is typically free. Region also matters, as the same VM size or storage tier can be priced differently across Azure regions.
Locally-redundant storage (LRS) keeps three copies of your data within a single datacenter and is the cheapest option. Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates across multiple availability zones in the same region for better resilience. Geo-redundant storage (GRS) additionally copies data to a secondary, geographically distant region, offering the highest durability at the highest cost.
Common ways to cut Azure spend include right-sizing virtual machines to match actual usage, shutting down or auto-scaling non-production resources outside business hours, committing to reserved instances or savings plans for steady workloads, choosing a cheaper storage redundancy tier where extra durability isn’t needed, and minimizing outbound data transfer across regions.
No. This calculator uses editable rate fields pre-filled with illustrative example prices so you can model different scenarios. Azure pricing varies by region, currency, and negotiated enterprise agreements, and changes over time, so you should confirm exact current rates on the official Azure Pricing Calculator or your Azure portal before budgeting or purchasing.