On-Demand (Pay-As-You-Go)
Per-second billing with no commitment — the baseline every Azure discount is measured against.
Azure Pay-As-You-Go bills a VM by the second (with a one-minute minimum) at a fixed hourly rate, with no upfront cost and no commitment. You can deallocate the VM to stop compute charges at any time.
It is the most flexible and most expensive option per hour. Every Reserved Instance, Savings Plan, and Spot figure in this explorer is expressed as a percentage off the On-Demand Linux rate.
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Reserved VM Instance (RI)Savings Plan for ComputeAzure Hybrid Benefit (AHB)Spot Virtual MachinesSpot eviction & eviction policyDev/Test pricingARM region nameMeter & SKUVM series naming (D, E, F, B and s/a/p)Constrained-vCPU sizesB-series burstable & CPU creditsEphemeral OS diskCobalt & Ampere (Arm on Azure)vCPUEffective hourly rateWindows vs Linux pricingMax saving %Best price regionNormalized pricing ($/vCPU, $/GB)