Optimize your cloud investments with confidence
Do more with less. Reduce costs and increase the efficiency of your cloud investments. Implement financial governance in your organization by focusing on visibility, accountability, and cost optimization.
Always on with continuous monitoring and reporting from the Azure portal
Best-in-class performance with data latency of eight hours or less
Tailored recommendations from Azure Advisor for cost optimization through reservations, rightsizing, and removing idle resources
Customization capabilities using Microsoft Power BI connectors and Cost Management APIs
Take advantage of next-generation AI capabilities
AI-powered functionality in Cost Management, now in preview, shows you cost details with key insights, forecasting, and reports and provides guidance to help you manage, grow, and optimize your cloud investments.
Understand your costs through visualization
Track usage, monitor expenses, isolate trends, and benefit from forecasting and cost analysis insights that lead to informed decisions.
Increase organizational accountability
Implement governance policies for effective cloud cost management and increase accountability with budgets and cost allocation.
Optimize cloud efficiency
Maximize the return on your cloud investment by using continuous cost optimization and industry best practices.
Comprehensive security and compliance, built in
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Microsoft invests more than $1 billion annually on cybersecurity research and development.
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We employ more than 3,500 security experts who are dedicated to data security and privacy.
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Microsoft Cost Management pricing
Microsoft Cost Management for Azure is available at no additional cost. Microsoft Cost Management for AWS is charged at 1 percent of the total AWS managed spend at general availability, and free during preview.
Get started with an Azure free account
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Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 55+ other services that are always free.
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After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.
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The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Cost Management—a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft
Learn about the real-life financial impacts and business benefits that companies experienced by using Microsoft Cost Management.
More than 70 percent of Azure enterprise customers are using Microsoft Cost Management
“Working with Microsoft has been really powerful. Getting access to features that provide cost management and being able to interact directly with the Microsoft team has made a big difference to our ability to get to the right cost place.”
Ian Margetts: Infrastructure Services Lead ASOS
"We see value in Microsoft Cost Management added as a service on the Azure portal, as we can now view cost information under a single pane of glass."
Alexis Chauvin, Ops Tech Lead, IoT & Digital Transformation, Schneider Electric
Microsoft Cost Management resources and documentation
Developer documentation and quickstarts
Learn how to use Microsoft Cost Management APIs to add cloud cost data to your applications, and learn how to use the Power BI connectors to create custom dashboards.
Azure billing documentation
Learn how to manage your billing account including granting others access, viewing and downloading your invoice and usage data, paying your invoice, and other billing-related actions.
Community and Azure support
Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and Azure community experts on MSDN Forum and Stack Overflow, or contact Azure support.
Save more with cost optimization
Learn to optimize your costs from a consolidated set of resources available to you in one place to help you take control over your spending needs. Learn more by visiting Cost Optimization.
Financial governance best practices
Learn how to implement financial governance as part of your overall governance strategy. Read best practices for designing your governance strategy, which includes cost management, and take an assessment to get started.
Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Cost Management
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Read the Azure SLA.
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The product is available in the Azure Portal and can also be accessed through APIs.
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No, Microsoft Cost Management is on by default for Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Pay-As-You-Go customers.
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Microsoft Cost Management includes data from Azure services and third-party services purchased in the Azure Marketplace. All costs are based on your negotiated prices, and data is refreshed every four hours. Learn more about Microsoft Cost Management data.