How can I find how much per hour I am being billed for a virtual machine in Azure.

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How can I find how much per hour I am being billed for a virtual machine in Azure.

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How can I find how much per hour I am being billed for a virtual machine in Azure.
I cannot find this simple information anywhere. I don't want a pricing calculator, I want the exact price I am being billed for an existing machine.
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kobulloc-MSFT 26,861 Microsoft Employee Moderator

Hello, @Anonymous !

How can I find out how much I am being billed for a virtual machine or other resources?
The Azure Pricing Calculator and Azure Pricing page are useful tools, but there are a lot of variables that can be difficult to capture when planning out exact costs.

Cost Management and specifically cost analysis allows you to track billing information as resources are used (note that there is a bit of a delay as billing units are processed). In your resource group, go to Cost Management > Cost analysis to see what you are being billed for. This is a feature I use frequently when I'm managing projects or experimenting with new services to keep an eye on what my costs are.

For an exact amount billed, you can view your billing usage and charges (as pointed out by @Anonymous ). In addition, you can set alerts, budgets, and more with cost management features.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/plan-manage-costs

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Anonymous

Read on here.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/download-azure-daily-usage

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Anonymous

2022-07-19T00:53:41.827+00:00

I have not been billed yet. I can see the month to date amount increasing every day, but I am not able to find anywhere that this vm is costing me #.##$ per hour.

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FDIL Yassine 1

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/understand/download-azure-daily-usage

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Billing and charges is only valid when you have been billed at least once, which I haven't. I guess I will find out exactly how much I am paying per hour at the end of the month, or I can try to calculate it manually by counting the number of hours per day my machine is on. The problem is that I will ultimately have multiple vms that shutdown and power on automatically on different schedule, and since the exact timing break point for the dashboard is not clear, I will only be able to guess. Accountants don't like guesses and surprises. Am I being billed at the dev rates or at the production rates? Dunno, wait until the bill comes in.

kobulloc-MSFT 26,861 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-07-19T13:36:24.553+00:00

Hello, @Anonymous !

One of the difficulties in determining an exact cost per hour for a VM as it is being used is that a VM is actually a collection of 6 different resources by default with some variable rates for things like storage and bandwidth. These resources are not always in use at the same time as, for example, even when your compute resource stops your storage is still in use storing data for your next session. This means that part of your VM (storage) is likely in use 24 hours a day even if you stop the VM (and stop using the compute resource) and that is why a bit of math and specification is needed when answering the question of what your hourly rate is.

The good news is that fees are straight forward and well documented. When you create your VM, the compute cost per month for the size that you select is given in the portal as well as the pricing page and if you are looking for the hourly rate, that's given in the Azure pricing calculator without the need to do any math. Additionally, you can confirm this daily with cost analysis and get exact VM usage when you download your usage details.

If you aren't sure which rate applies to you, all Azure customers are able to open a billing support ticket to clear up any confusion. I hope this helps!
Anonymous

2022-07-19T15:54:50.18+00:00

Hi kobulloc-MSFT,

The conclusion I came to is that I need to be billed at least once to get the exact pricing for the resource.

It is quite confusing with the price calculator, as you have the ability to select dev/test pricing in the configurator, but that option was not present when I created the machine. This might be because I created the vm in a DevTest lab, meaning all the machines are dev in a DevTest lab.

I will wait for the first invoice to see the real breakdown, but for now, I calculated I am being billed DevTest.

Thanks
kobulloc-MSFT 26,861 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2022-07-19T17:08:53.273+00:00
No worries, @Anonymous !

Dev/Test pricing is a bit confusing because of the Azure service DevTest Labs (especially since a Dev/Test pricing subscription can result in lower rates on DevTest Labs) but the two are mostly separate.

Dev/Test pricing is granted for special subscription types, or offers, which you get from Visual Studio subscriptions. Dev/Test pricing is prominently featured in the description when you sign up for these subscriptions so you usually know when you will receive those discounted rates. These are the offers that qualify:

Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test (not to be confused with Pay-As-You-Go)

Enterprise Dev/Test

Azure Plan for DevTest

Azure DevTest Labs is an Azure service that allows developers to self-service VMs and cloud environments (and you can get a discount if you have one of the offer types mentioned above).

So check your subscription/offer type to see if yours qualifies for Dev/Test pricing and I hope that helps to clear the Dev/Test pricing issue up a bit--I know the overlap can be confusing.

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