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# Azure offers and benefits

Explore Azure offers and benefits designed to help you maximize savings, migrate seamlessly, and innovate with AI at every stage of your cloud journey.

## Discover offers and benefits

Find Azure offers and benefits that help you learn, build, test, secure, and scale your solutions while optimizing your cloud costs.

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### Azure free account

Start exploring Azure by signing up for a free account—you’ll get free services and a $200 credit.

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### Azure for students

Get free monthly allowances of popular services and a $100 credit each for students.

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### Azure for nonprofits

Get a $2,000 Azure grant annually, plus more grants and discounts across Dynamics 365 and Microsoft 365.

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### Azure reservations

Reduce costs up to 72% for select Azure services by reserving resources in advance.1

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### Savings plans

Save up to 65% on select compute services2 and up to 35% on select database services3 with savings plans.

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### Azure Hybrid Benefit

Realize cost savings by applying Azure discounts to your Windows Server and SQL Server licenses or Linux subscription.

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### Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Get up to 90% off pay-as-you-go pricing and only spend up to the maximum amount you set.4

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### Monthly credit for Visual Studio

Get up to $150 monthly to try Azure services with your Visual Studio subscription.

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### Azure dev/test pricing

Get discounted development and test rates on Azure with a Visual Studio subscription.

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### Microsoft Sentinel benefit for Microsoft 365 customers

Receive a data grant of up to 5 MB per day to ingest Microsoft 365 data into Microsoft Sentinel.

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### Azure plan

Easily customize Azure with flexible payment options and tailored limits using Azure plan.

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### Azure in Open Licensing

Activate a new Azure subscription or add credits to an existing one with Open Licensing.

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## Azure Accelerate

Qualify for free Azure credits to help offset migration costs and fuel your cloud transformation and AI journey with access to experts, investments, and resources.

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### Azure Essentials

Implement secure, resilient and cost-efficient cloud and AI projects from the start.

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### Azure support plans

Get the support you need to make the most of your Azure investment.

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### Microsoft Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA) Sponsorship

See details about the Microsoft Azure EA Sponsorship offer. This offer is available to select customers by email invitation only.

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### Microsoft Azure Sponsorship Offer

See details about the Microsoft Azure Sponsorship Offer. This offer is available to limited customers and by email invitation only.

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### Request a pricing quote

Request a pricing quote and get answers to your Azure pricing questions.

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#### Try Azure for free

Design, customize, and scale AI apps using industry-leading models and months of free Azure services

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#### Check out purchasing options

Choose the Azure purchase options that work best for your organization.

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[1] Customers may see savings estimated to be between 36% and 72%. The 72% savings estimate is based on one M64ls Azure Virtual Machine for SUSE Linux Enterprise OS in the East US region running for 36 months at a pay-as-you-go rate vs. a reduced rate for a 3-year Reserved VM Instance. Based on Azure pricing as of January 2026. Prices are subject to change. Actual savings may vary based on location, instance type, and/or usage.

- [2] Customers may see savings estimated to be between 11% and 65%. The 65% savings estimate is based on one M64dsv2 Azure VM for Ubuntu Linux in the East US region running for 36 months at a pay-as-you-go rate vs. a reduced rate for a 3-year savings plan. Based on Azure pricing as of January 2026. Prices are subject to change. Actual savings may vary based on location, instance type, and/or usage.

- [3] Customers may see savings estimated to be between 12% and 35%. The 35% savings estimate is based on one Azure SQL Database serverless running for 12 months at a pay-as-you-go rate vs. a reduced rate for a 1-year savings plan. Based on Azure pricing as of March 2026. Prices are subject to change. Actual savings may vary based on location, database service, and/or usage.

- [4] Actual discounts may vary based on region, VM type, and Azure compute capacity available when the workload is deployed.

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