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Azure Queue Storage pricing and limits

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Microsoft's managed queue, billed per 10,000 operations with queued messages charged as stored data.

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Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 14 criteria comparedSources last checked

Azure Queue Storage pricing at a glance

Pricing model
Per region and per redundancy, metered on operations and on stored data; LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS are each priced separately source ↗
What the free plan includes
$200 of Azure credit for 30 days on a new account; no standing Queue Storage allowance is published source ↗
When the free offer ends
30 days source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Azure Queue Storage pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Azure-resident systems that want a queue billed like storage — operations plus depth, no plan to choose and no capacity to provision.

Consider something else if…

Queued messages are billed as stored data, so a backlog costs money by the gigabyte-month, and there is no free allowance at all where SQS gives a million requests a month.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Azure Queue Storage pricing

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Free tierNo
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Kind of free offerFree credit
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What the free plan includes$200 of Azure credit for 30 days on a new account; no standing Queue Storage allowance is published.
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When the free offer ends30 days.
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Pricing modelPer region and per redundancy, metered on operations and on stored data; LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS are each priced separately.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Queues v2, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.004,"unitPrice":0.004,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"994899e2-0f8f-4696-80a6-d9bae770c13b","meterName":"LRS Class 1 Operations"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.045,"unitPrice":0.045,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"d6b6271c-3113-44a9-9d62-b2da937da902","meterName":"LRS Data Stored"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0598,"unitPrice":0.0598,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2022-09-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"2187dabd-0f89-4dae-b031-8ba726c1f598","meterName":"GRS Data Stored","”

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Infrastructure

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Uptime SLANot published as a web page. Microsoft consolidated its per-service SLAs into one downloadable document covering Azure, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Intune; the former azure.microsoft.com SLA URLs now redirect to its licensing viewer.
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Queues

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Included per monthNone included. Queue operations are metered from the first one at $0.004 per 10,000 Class 1 operations on LRS in East US.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Queues v2, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.004,"unitPrice":0.004,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"994899e2-0f8f-4696-80a6-d9bae770c13b","meterName":"LRS Class 1 Operations"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.004,"unitPrice":0.004,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"fcf5a755-9fce-4c78-8931-af0ff4562395","meterName":"Class 2 Operations","”

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Maximum message size64 KB per message. A queue may hold millions of messages, bounded only by the storage account's capacity rather than a queue-level ceiling.
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Message retention7 days by default, set per message with messagettl; since version 2017-07-29 it can be any positive number, or -1 for a message that never expires.
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Maximum delayTime-to-live defaults to seven days and can be set to any positive number, or to -1 for a message that never expires — the only queue here with an unbounded option.
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Compliance

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SOC 2Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
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ISO 27001Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (ISO 27001) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
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HIPAAListed among Azure's compliance offerings (HIPAA) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
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PCI DSSListed among Azure's compliance offerings (PCI DSS) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
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Azure Queue Storage pricing questions

How does Azure Queue Storage charge?

Per region and per redundancy, metered on operations and on stored data; LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS are each priced separately.

Azure Retail Prices API — Queues v2, East US · read

Does Azure Queue Storage have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free credit.

Azure Queue Storage pricing · read

Does the Azure Queue Storage free offer expire?

30 days.

Azure Queue Storage pricing · read

What uptime does Azure Queue Storage guarantee?

Not published as a web page. Microsoft consolidated its per-service SLAs into one downloadable document covering Azure, Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Intune; the former azure.microsoft.com SLA URLs now redirect to its licensing viewer.

Service Level Agreements (SLA) for Online Services — Microsoft · read

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