Azure Retail Prices overview

• 02/10/2021
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Azure customers have been looking for a programmatic way to retrieve retail prices for all Azure services. Now you can use the Retail Rates Prices API to get retail prices for all Azure services. Previously, the only way that you could retrieve prices for Azure services was to either use the Azure Pricing Calculator or use the Azure portal. This API gives you an unauthenticated experience to get retail rates for all Azure services. Use the API to explore prices for Azure services against different regions and different SKUs. The programmatic API can also help you create your own tools for internal analysis and price comparison across SKUs and regions.

API endpoint

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices

API sample calls

Here are some examples:

Example call filtered for only virtual machines

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines'

Example call filtered for only reservations

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=priceType eq 'Reservation'

Example call filtered for reserved instance virtual machines

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and priceType eq 'Reservation'

Example call filtered for compute resources

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceFamily eq 'Compute'

API response examples

Here's a sample API response, without reservation prices.

{
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "tierMinimumUnits": 0.0,
            "retailPrice": 0.176346,
            "unitPrice": 0.176346,
            "armRegionName": "westeurope",
            "location": "EU West",
            "effectiveStartDate": "2020-08-01T00:00:00Z",
            "meterId": "000a794b-bdb0-58be-a0cd-0c3a0f222923",
            "meterName": "F16s Spot",
            "productId": "DZH318Z0BQPS",
            "skuId": "DZH318Z0BQPS/00TG",
            "productName": "Virtual Machines FS Series Windows",
            "skuName": "F16s Spot",
            "serviceName": "Virtual Machines",
            "serviceId": "DZH313Z7MMC8",
            "serviceFamily": "Compute",
            "unitOfMeasure": "1 Hour",
            "type": "DevTestConsumption",
            "isPrimaryMeterRegion": true,
            "armSkuName": "Standard_F16s"
        }

Here's a sample API response with reservation prices and term in the response.

{
            "currencyCode": "USD",
            "tierMinimumUnits": 0.0,
            "reservationTerm": "1 Year",
            "retailPrice": 25007.0,
            "unitPrice": 25007.0,
            "armRegionName": "southcentralus",
            "location": "US South Central",
            "effectiveStartDate": "2020-08-01T00:00:00Z",
            "meterId": "0016083a-928f-56fd-8eeb-39287dcf676d",
            "meterName": "E64 v4",
            "productId": "DZH318Z0D1L7",
            "skuId": "DZH318Z0D1L7/018J",
            "productName": "Virtual Machines Ev4 Series",
            "skuName": "E64 v4",
            "serviceName": "Virtual Machines",
            "serviceId": "DZH313Z7MMC8",
            "serviceFamily": "Compute",
            "unitOfMeasure": "1 Hour",
            "type": "Reservation",
            "isPrimaryMeterRegion": true,
            "armSkuName": "Standard_E64_v4"
        }

API property details

Here's all the property details that are a part of the API response.

API filters

Filters are supported for the following fields:

• armRegionName
• Location
• meterId
• meterName
• productid
• skuId
• productName
• skuName
• serviceName
• serviceId
• serviceFamily
• priceType
• armSkuName

You append the filters to the API endpoint, as shown in the API sample calls.

Next steps

• Learn about other Cost Management APIs.