Azure Plan Offer

Azure plan

Try Azure for free

• An Azure plan gives you access to Azure services at standard pay-as-you-go rates under the Microsoft Customer Agreement. If the rates change, we'll notify you at least 30 days in advance. We'll also notify you in advance if we add any new services to the Azure platform and inform you of any associated fees for using them. You'll be charged only if you use the new services. You're responsible for any taxes that might result from receiving services at no charge.

Limits, quotas, and constraints

See the Azure limits, quotas, and constraints documentation. If you need to exceed these limits, contact customer service so that we can adjust your limits appropriately.

Cancellation policy

You may cancel this plan at any time. Payment is required for any outstanding fees that your account incurs.

Service-level agreements

Each Azure service has a set of robust service-level agreements (SLAs). See the SLAs for individual Azure services. SLAs are not provided for services during preview or that are offered free of charge.

Resource commitment

All increases in service usage are subject to the availability of the service resources. Examples of such increases include adding to the number of running compute instances or increasing the amount of storage in use.

If an Azure free account is not incurring charges or is inactive for more than 90 days, we reserve the right to remove any compute resources, including hosted services, virtual machines, and websites. We will provide notice a month before removing any compute resources. You can avoid becoming inactive by doing either of the following every 90 days:

Sign in to the Azure portal.

• Access your resources via Azure APIs. Microsoft reserves the right to modify or discontinue any of the free services or the free account offer at any time with or without notice.

Additional terms by benefit type

Free account

Pay-as-you-go pricing

FREE ACCOUNT

Upgrades and spending limits

With the Azure free account, eligible customers receive a $200 credit, which can be used within the first 30 days on most Azure services. Unused credit cannot be carried over to subsequent months and cannot be transferred to other Azure subscriptions.

Within 30 days of sign-up or upon exhaustion of the credit (whichever occurs first), you must upgrade to pay-as-you-go pricing by removing the spending limit to continue using the Azure free account and select free services for the term.

Exclusions

Azure credit may not be used to purchase Azure support plans, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio subscriptions, Visual Studio App Center services, Azure ExpressRoute, third-party branded products, products sold through Azure Marketplace, or products otherwise licensed separately from Azure (for example, Microsoft Entra ID Premium).

You will not facilitate, engage in, or participate in any use of Azure services for crypto-currency mining, denial of service attacks, spamming, or illegal activity, and/or any use that could cause harm to Microsoft or others, and will enforce strong internal controls to prevent the same.

Microsoft may occasionally contact you regarding your use of your Azure services, and you will upon such request provide reasonable documentation regarding your use. If Microsoft believes for any reason that such Azure services are being used for any prohibited purpose, Microsoft may, in its sole discretion, suspend or terminate your access to Azure services.