# Azure Container Apps

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/azure-container-apps/

Serverless container platform on Azure that runs containerized applications and jobs without managing servers, scaling on HTTP, TCP or event rules.

## Who it suits

Containerised services and jobs already inside an Azure subscription, where the monthly free grant of 180,000 vCPU-seconds and 2 million requests covers low traffic and scaling to zero stops usage charges between bursts.

Consider something else if Requests can run longer than the 240-second ingress timeout, or you want to read an uptime figure on a web page: Microsoft publishes its SLA only inside a consolidated downloadable document covering Azure, Dynamics, Office and Intune.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/billing), read 2026-09-14)
- What the free plan includes: Per subscription, per calendar month: 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds and 2 million HTTP requests. Free usage does not appear on the bill. ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/billing), read 2026-09-14)
- Pricing model: Two plan types. Consumption bills only for the resources apps use while running, in vCPU-seconds, GiB-seconds and HTTP requests. Dedicated bills for instances allocated to a workload profile. ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/billing), read 2026-09-14)

### Limits

- Max request duration: 240 seconds for an HTTP request through the fully qualified domain name. ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/ingress-overview), read 2026-09-14)

### Deployment

- Containers: Supported ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/overview), read 2026-09-14)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent processes: Supported ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/scale-app), read 2026-09-14)
- Scales to zero: Supported ([source](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-apps/scale-app), read 2026-09-14)

## Compared with

- [Azure Container Apps vs Google Cloud Run](https://inetgeek.com/compare/azure-container-apps-vs-google-cloud-run/)