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Azure Blob Storage pricing and limits

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azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/blobs · Object storage
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Microsoft's object storage, priced per region — every figure here is East US Hot LRS from the public retail price feed.

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Azure Blob Storage pricing at a glance

Pricing model
Per region, per redundancy and per access tier, with storage, operations and egress metered separately; no plans and no bundles source ↗
What the free plan includes
$200 of Azure credit for 30 days on a new account source ↗
When the free offer ends
30 days source ↗
Egress over allowance
First 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global egress meter, falling to $0.083 above 10 TB source ↗

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

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Workloads already on Azure, where keeping storage in the same region as the compute avoids the bandwidth charge that dominates an object storage bill.

Consider something else if…

Egress is charged beyond the first 100 GB a month, where R2, Wasabi and Tigris charge nothing — and Azure's rates vary by region and redundancy, so a quoted figure only holds for the combination it was read for.

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Azure Blob 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. Azure separately lists services that are always free and services free for 12 months to new customers, which is an account-wide programme rather than a Blob Storage allowance.
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  • Free Azure Services ↗

    “Some are always free to all Azure customers, and some are free for 12 months to new customers only. [...] 12 months free services is available only to new customers who have not previously had an Azure account or received 12 months of free services.”

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When the free offer ends30 days.
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Pricing modelPer region, per redundancy and per access tier, with storage, operations and egress metered separately; no plans and no bundles.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Blob Storage Hot LRS, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0208,"unitPrice":0.0208,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-02-03T00:00:00Z","meterId":"272492b3-1c92-4a5f-bee9-52a8e10ca514","meterName":"Hot LRS Data Stored"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.05,"unitPrice":0.05,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2016-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"14854f12-8d37-4299-842a-b0f2df82a305","meterName":"Hot LRS Write Operations","”

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Egress over allowanceFirst 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global egress meter, falling to $0.083 above 10 TB.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Bandwidth, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0,"unitPrice":0.0,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2022-05-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"9995d93a-7d35-4d3f-9c69-7a7fea447ef4","meterName":"Standard Data Transfer Out"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0,"unitPrice":0.0,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2022-05-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"9995d93a-7d35-4d3f-9c69-7a7fea447ef4","meterName":"Standard Data Transfer Out","”

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Limits

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Storage (entry plan)None. Azure Blob has no plans and no free storage band: the Hot LRS meter is charged from the first GB.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Blob Storage Hot LRS, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0208,"unitPrice":0.0208,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-02-03T00:00:00Z","meterId":"272492b3-1c92-4a5f-bee9-52a8e10ca514","meterName":"Hot LRS Data Stored"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0208,"unitPrice":0.0208,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-02-03T00:00:00Z","meterId":"272492b3-1c92-4a5f-bee9-52a8e10ca514","meterName":"Hot LRS Data Stored","”

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Infrastructure

1 criteria
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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Storage

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Storage price$0.0208 per GB-month for Hot LRS in East US, falling to $0.019968 above 50 TB and $0.019136 above 500 TB.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Blob Storage Hot LRS, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0208,"unitPrice":0.0208,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-02-03T00:00:00Z","meterId":"272492b3-1c92-4a5f-bee9-52a8e10ca514","meterName":"Hot LRS Data Stored"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0208,"unitPrice":0.0208,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-02-03T00:00:00Z","meterId":"272492b3-1c92-4a5f-bee9-52a8e10ca514","meterName":"Hot LRS Data Stored"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.0208,"unitPrice":0.0208,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2017-02-03T00:00:00Z","meterId":"272492b3-1c92-4a5f-bee9-52a8e10ca514","meterName":"Hot LRS Data Stored","”

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Operations price$0.05 per 10,000 write operations and $0.004 per 10,000 reads on Hot LRS in East US.
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  • Azure Retail Prices API — Blob Storage Hot LRS, East US ↗

    “{"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.05,"unitPrice":0.05,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2016-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"14854f12-8d37-4299-842a-b0f2df82a305","meterName":"Hot LRS Write Operations"," [...] {"currencyCode":"USD","tierMinimumUnits":0.0,"retailPrice":0.004,"unitPrice":0.004,"armRegionName":"eastus","location":"US East","effectiveStartDate":"2016-11-01T00:00:00Z","meterId":"c5248cf8-ecba-4807-9304-6a8f14b5805a","meterName":"Hot Read Operations","”

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Minimum storage durationNone on Hot. Cool carries a 30-day minimum, Cold 90 days and Archive 180 days — the longest early-deletion window of any provider here, and three times S3's 90-day Glacier figure.
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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 Blob Storage pricing questions

How does Azure Blob Storage charge?

Per region, per redundancy and per access tier, with storage, operations and egress metered separately; no plans and no bundles.

Azure Retail Prices API — Blob Storage Hot LRS, East US · read

Does Azure Blob Storage have a free tier?

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

Azure Blob Storage pricing · read

Does the Azure Blob Storage free offer expire?

30 days.

Azure Blob Storage pricing · read

How much does Azure Blob Storage charge for egress?

First 100 GB a month free, then $0.087 per GB over Microsoft's global egress meter, falling to $0.083 above 10 TB.

Azure Retail Prices API — Bandwidth, East US · read

What uptime does Azure Blob 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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