How to fetch retail prices of instances from retail pricing API for instances with AHB option enabled?

Question

i went to the MSFT retail price API page - (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/cost-management/retail-prices/azure-retail-prices)
I was trying to find retail prices of instances when AHB is enabled and I chose to do this assignment for VM - D64ds v5; so I hit tweaked the above API (https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and armSkuName eq 'Standard_D64ds_v5') and hit it and found the response as pasted below:

{
  "BillingCurrency": "USD",
  "CustomerEntityId": "Default",
  "CustomerEntityType": "Retail",
  "Items": [
    {
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "tierMinimumUnits": 0,
      "retailPrice": 3.616,
      "unitPrice": 3.616,
      "armRegionName": "eastus",
      "location": "US East",
      "effectiveStartDate": "2021-11-01T00:00:00Z",
      "meterId": "61e3a7f9-67e8-53c8-bdc6-d8624b9687b9",
      "meterName": "D64ds v5",
      "productId": "DZH318Z08MC5",
      "skuId": "DZH318Z08MC5/00HF",
      "availabilityId": null,
      "productName": "Virtual Machines Ddsv5 Series Windows",
      "skuName": "Standard_D64ds_v5",
      "serviceName": "Virtual Machines",
      "serviceId": "DZH313Z7MMC8",
      "serviceFamily": "Compute",
      "unitOfMeasure": "1 Hour",
      "type": "DevTestConsumption",
      "isPrimaryMeterRegion": true,
      "armSkuName": "Standard_D64ds_v5"
    },
    {
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "tierMinimumUnits": 0,
      "retailPrice": 6.56,
      "unitPrice": 6.56,
      "armRegionName": "eastus",
      "location": "US East",
      "effectiveStartDate": "2021-11-01T00:00:00Z",
      "meterId": "61e3a7f9-67e8-53c8-bdc6-d8624b9687b9",
      "meterName": "D64ds v5",
      "productId": "DZH318Z08MC5",
      "skuId": "DZH318Z08MC5/00HF",
      "availabilityId": null,
      "productName": "Virtual Machines Ddsv5 Series Windows",
      "skuName": "Standard_D64ds_v5",
      "serviceName": "Virtual Machines",
      "serviceId": "DZH313Z7MMC8",
      "serviceFamily": "Compute",
      "unitOfMeasure": "1 Hour",
      "type": "Consumption",
      "isPrimaryMeterRegion": true,
      "armSkuName": "Standard_D64ds_v5"
    }
}

Answer

Hello, @Avisikta Patra !

How do I find the Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) rates in the retail pricing API response?

I'm still waiting on an official response but I wanted to share with you what I've found so far as a type of DevTestConsumption does appear to match the expected Azure Hybrid Benefit (AHB) rates I'm seeing in the Windows Virtual Machines Pricing page as long as skuName does not contain Spot or Low Priority.

This holds true for the SKUs that I've tested for US East:

D64ds_v5 at 3.6160
D4ds_v5 at 0.2260
D16ds_v5 at 0.9040
B4ms at 0.1660
A8m_v2 at 0.4750
D16as_v5 at 0.6880
F32s_v2 at 1.3530
E32a_v4 at 2.0160

I'll update you if I get official confirmation but for now, that appears to hold true.

Resources:

Example:

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and armSkuName eq 'Standard_D64ds_v5'

How to fetch retail prices of instances from retail pricing API for instances with AHB option enabled?

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