With playfab are my using azur serverless functions? if so How much does it cost to use Azure serverless functions?

Question

I started using playfab a month ago which seems to use azure serverless functions or something of the sort they call it azure cloud functions, recently my free subscription seems to have run out. I saw that I had 300$ of azure money somewhere hopefully my free subscription didn't end because I used it all if so then I guess those azure functions are too expensive for me.
I know the pricing for the azure serverless functions is probably complex to understand but i'm very lost in where to look. I'm using these azure function to make a chat for multiplayer game. I mainly use the azure functions for clients to request a chat with other clients or for clients to check if another client is requesting to chat with them. Every client may be calling an azure function once ever 2 seconds. My game is probably going to be very unpopular so I'm looking for an options that doesn't cost me much especially if I have no one using the functions.

Here I see where I have to get my subscription.

Maybe I'm wrong but the subscription seems to be a sort of general azure subscription not only a subscription for azure server-less functions.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Hi @Gerardo ,

Thanks for reaching out to Q&A forum.

I can understand that your free credit period is over and you are moving to "pay as you go" subscription. The screenshot that you have attached is to choose the support plan under the subscription,

You can choose any one of the support plans that you would prefer. More details here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/support/plans/

Please note that, creation of resources like Functions does not depend on the support plan. Only the supportability of the resource would differ.

Now to answer the Azure Functions queries. To test, experiment and run smaller workloads, you can choose to run the Azure function app on consumption plan. For a consumption plan function app, you are charged for the number of executions. Also Consumption plan pricing includes a monthly free grant of 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-s of resource consumption per month per subscription in pay-as-you-go pricing across all function apps in that subscription. Also it is a serverless architecture where the backend instances are added automatically when the load increases.

You can calculate the function app pricing using the Pricing calculator : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/

Function app consumption : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/consumption-plan

I hope this helps! Feel free to reach out to me if you have any further queries.

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