How to identify if my VM is paygo VM or not.

Question

I want to identify if my Azure VM is Paygo or not. How I can identify that?

Answer 1

Hi Diksha Singh,

You can identify if your Azure VM is Pay-as-you-go (Paygo) by checking your Azure subscription bill. Here are the steps to do that:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
2. Type subscriptions in the search box and then select Subscriptions.
3. In the list of subscriptions, select the subscription you want to check.
4. Under Billing, select Invoices.
5. In the list of invoices, look for the one that you want to download then select the download symbol. This action opens the Download Usage + Charges window, where you can select Download CSV and Download invoice.

The detailed usage CSV file shows your charges by billing period and daily usage1. If you see charges for your VM usage, it’s likely that your VM is on a Pay-as-you-go plan

Additional information:

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/review-individual-bill
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/pay-as-you-go-overview

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Luis

Answer 2

first you may try to check your bills if it is pay as you go you can see the usage rate on the bill. if you do not have any bills yet you can check

or

you can check the BillingProfile.MaxPrice Property

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.azure.management.compute.fluent.models.billingprofile.maxprice?view=azure-dotnet-legacy

as you can see from the official documentation

if it is not -1 we can understand it is a max reservation value so it is not pay as you go machine