Queries on Billing and Resource Limits for Bing Search API in Azure

Question

Dear Azure QA Team.

We are developing Chat service with Bing Search based engine.

We would like to ask two questions about Azure Bing Search Resource.

1. Does Bing Search API Resource generate no cost when not in use (when transactions for the month are 0)?
2. Is there a limit on the number of Bing Search API Resources that can be created for each subscription?

Thank you!

Answer 1

@Anonymous To add to above response, You will not be billed if you do not have any transactions. Based on the pricing tier of your resource you will be billed based on the number of transactions made for a particular feature of the bing search service. See pricing page for confirmation.

As per my knowledge, the limits of the subscription apply for resource creation. See this page that documents the number of resources that can be created in a subscription resource group. From bing service perspective, I don't think any resource creation limit is applied apart from the usage limits that apply based on the tier of the resource. Thanks!!

Answer 2

Hi Zhuo,

Detailed billing query on the API pricing is over here and you can also contact the MS Billing team to answer the exact query for your point 2 - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/cognitive-services/bing-custom-search/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-portal/supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request#go-to-help--support-from-the-global-header

Hope this helps.

JS

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