Confused about pricing on bot created by Bot Framework Composer

Question

Sorry this may be a stupid question - but I am new to Azure so I am not very familiar with how everything is priced.

I was researching on Azure bot and was extremely confused on pricing. I downloaded the Bot Framework Composer and created a few test bots. It requires different type of resources but there is no immediate pricing since I was on a free trial. The services it requires seems to be different from documentation - for example, Azure Bot Services is mentioned a lot yet this resource is not created when I made my test bot with the Composer. I hope someone can

1. Explain and clear up the Azure resources required for using the Bot Framework Composer
2. An example how much would a light weight bot cost per month. (1000 sessions / 50000 messages per month)

App Service - for hosting the bot on Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/app-service/windows/
App Insight - for telemetry data/audit log for bot hosted on Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/monitor/
Cognitive Services - for the LUIS to analyze text in bot https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/cognitive-services/
Cognitive Search Services - I see this resource created but I have no idea what is this for? Possibility used for some type of bot
QnA Maker - for managing unlimited documents For LUIS https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/cognitive-services/qna-maker/
Bot Services - I see this mentioned a lot, however this is not a resource prescribed by the bot composer. I assume this is for "channeling" the messages between the client (say Microsoft Teams) and the bot?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

@Ed C

There is a calculator for Azure product to calculate the price during the process. Have you tried that? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

You can see the monthly/ yearly estimated price and limitations for it like below:

Regards,
Yutong