Multiple or single subscription

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Multiple or single subscription

Gabriele Papi 20

Hi everyone . I am setting up a project and some questions came in my mind. I have just one subscription at the moment : are there any advantages of using multiple subscription in matter of cost? Also , is it possible join free and "paid" account in Azure ? Best regards.

Wuppukonduru Venkata Vivek 90 Reputation points

2024-02-17T06:45:14+00:00

Subscription are units of billing , Your invoice gets generated for a subscription. However , You can use cost management to drill down on costs of each resource group. Subscription by itself do not cost anything . When you have resources in subscription you will be charged. It possible to join a free account in azure , but the trail ends after 30 days and it gets converted automatically to pay as you go subscription. All the best

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Wuppukonduru Venkata Vivek 90 Reputation points

2024-02-17T06:45:14+00:00

Subscription are units of billing , Your invoice gets generated for a subscription. However , You can use cost management to drill down on costs of each resource group. Subscription by itself do not cost anything . When you have resources in subscription you will be charged. It possible to join a free account in azure , but the trail ends after 30 days and it gets converted automatically to pay as you go subscription. All the best

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In general, there is no cost associated with the actual subscription (although this might, at least to some extent, depend on the subscription type. However, with the PAYG model, this is not the case. The reason to use multiple subscriptions include providing isolation (e.g. separating the prod and dev environments) and simplifying the billing/administrative model (where separate teams/business units have their own subscriptions), although there is a way to implement billing and delegation of administration within a single subscription as well. You can have different subscriptions (paid for and "free") associated with the same Azure account. Ultimately, you pay for the resource usage - regardless of whether those resources reside in the same or different subscriptions (but the cost might depend on the subscription type) hth
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Dillon Silzer 57,831 Volunteer Moderator

Hi Gabriele,

Another thing to think about is to use Resource Groups to break down your costs. You can use the Cost Analysis tool to break down the costs by Resource Group.

If you are looking to keep projects completely separate, I would recommend using a new subscription. In terms of free, you can set up services with Free Tier (some) as listed below:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services

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