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Understand cost details fields

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This document describes the cost details (formerly known as usage details) fields found in files from using Azure portal download, Exports from Cost Management, or the Cost Details API. For more information about cost details best practices, see Choose a cost details solution.

Migration to new cost details formats

If you're using an older cost details solution and want to migrate to Exports or the Cost Details API, read the following articles.

List of fields and descriptions

The following table describes the important terms used in the latest version of the cost details file. The list covers pay-as-you-go (also called Microsoft Online Services Program), Enterprise Agreement (EA), and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) accounts. To identify what account type you are, see supported Microsoft Azure offers.

Term Account type Description
AccountName EA, pay-as-you-go Display name of the EA enrollment account or pay-as-you-go billing account.
AccountOwnerId¹ EA, pay-as-you-go Unique identifier for the EA enrollment account or pay-as-you-go billing account.
AdditionalInfo¹ All Service-specific metadata. For example, an image type for a virtual machine.
BillingAccountId¹ All Unique identifier for the root billing account.
BillingAccountName All Name of the billing account.
BillingCurrency All Currency associated with the billing account.
BillingPeriod EA, pay-as-you-go The billing period of the charge.
BillingPeriodEndDate All The end date of the billing period.
BillingPeriodStartDate All The start date of the billing period.
BillingProfileId¹ All Unique identifier of the EA enrollment, pay-as-you-go subscription, MCA billing profile, or AWS consolidated account.
BillingProfileName All Name of the EA enrollment, pay-as-you-go subscription, MCA billing profile, or AWS consolidated account.
ChargeType All Indicates whether the charge represents usage (Usage), a purchase (Purchase), or a refund (Refund).
ConsumedService All Name of the service the charge is associated with.
CostCenter¹ EA, MCA The cost center defined for the subscription for tracking costs (only available in open billing periods for MCA accounts).
Cost EA, pay-as-you-go See CostInBillingCurrency.
CostInBillingCurrency MCA Cost of the charge in the billing currency before credits or taxes.
CostInPricingCurrency MCA Cost of the charge in the pricing currency before credits or taxes.
Currency EA, pay-as-you-go See BillingCurrency.
Date¹ All The usage or purchase date of the charge.
EffectivePrice All Blended unit price for the period. Blended prices average out any fluctuations in the unit price, like graduated tiering, which lowers the price as quantity increases over time.
ExchangeRateDate MCA Date the exchange rate was established.
ExchangeRatePricingToBilling MCA Exchange rate used to convert the cost in the pricing currency to the billing currency.
Frequency All Indicates whether a charge is expected to repeat. Charges can either happen once (OneTime), repeat on a monthly or yearly basis (Recurring), or be based on usage (UsageBased).
InvoiceId pay-as-you-go, MCA The unique document ID listed on the invoice PDF.
InvoiceSection MCA See InvoiceSectionName.
InvoiceSectionId¹ EA, MCA Unique identifier for the EA department or MCA invoice section.
InvoiceSectionName EA, MCA Name of the EA department or MCA invoice section.
IsAzureCreditEligible All Indicates if the charge is eligible to be paid for using Azure credits (Values: True or False).
Location MCA Datacenter location where the resource is running.
MeterCategory All Name of the classification category for the meter. For example, Cloud services and Networking.
MeterId¹ All The unique identifier for the meter.
MeterName All The name of the meter.
MeterRegion All Name of the datacenter location for services priced based on location. See Location.
MeterSubCategory All Name of the meter subclassification category.
OfferId¹ All Name of the offer purchased.
pay-as-you-goPrice All Retail price for the resource.
PartNumber¹ EA, pay-as-you-go Identifier used to get specific meter pricing.
PlanName EA, pay-as-you-go Marketplace plan name.
PreviousInvoiceId MCA Reference to an original invoice if the line item is a refund.
PricingCurrency MCA Currency used when rating based on negotiated prices.
PricingModel All Identifier that indicates how the meter is priced. (Values: On Demand, Reservation, and Spot)
Product All Name of the product.
ProductId¹ MCA Unique identifier for the product.
ProductOrderId All Unique identifier for the product order.
ProductOrderName All Unique name for the product order.
Provider All Identifier for product category or Line of Business. For example, Azure, Microsoft 365, and AWS.
PublisherName All Publisher for Marketplace services.
PublisherType All Type of publisher (Values: Azure, AWS, Marketplace).
Quantity All The number of units purchased or consumed.
ReservationId EA, MCA Unique identifier for the purchased reservation instance.
ReservationName EA, MCA Name of the purchased reservation instance.
ResourceGroup All Name of the resource group the resource is in. Not all charges come from resources deployed to resource groups. Charges that don't have a resource group will be shown as null or empty, Others, or Not applicable.
ResourceId¹ All Unique identifier of the Azure Resource Manager resource.
ResourceLocation¹ All Datacenter location where the resource is running. See Location.
ResourceName EA, pay-as-you-go Name of the resource. Not all charges come from deployed resources. Charges that don't have a resource type will be shown as null/empty, Others , or Not applicable.
ResourceType MCA Type of resource instance. Not all charges come from deployed resources. Charges that don't have a resource type will be shown as null/empty, Others , or Not applicable.
ServiceFamily MCA Service family that the service belongs to.
ServiceInfo¹ All Service-specific metadata.
ServiceInfo2 All Legacy field with optional service-specific metadata.
ServicePeriodEndDate MCA The end date of the rating period that defined and locked pricing for the consumed or purchased service.
ServicePeriodStartDate MCA The start date of the rating period that defined and locked pricing for the consumed or purchased service.
SubscriptionId¹ All Unique identifier for the Azure subscription.
SubscriptionName All Name of the Azure subscription.
Tags¹ All Tags assigned to the resource. Doesn't include resource group tags. Can be used to group or distribute costs for internal chargeback. For more information, see Organize your Azure resources with tags.
Term All Displays the term for the validity of the offer. For example: In case of reserved instances, it displays 12 months as the Term. For one-time purchases or recurring purchases, Term is one month (SaaS, Marketplace Support). Not applicable for Azure consumption.
UnitOfMeasure All The unit of measure for billing for the service. For example, compute services are billed per hour.
UnitPrice EA, pay-as-you-go The price per unit for the charge.
CostAllocationRuleName EA, MCA Name of the Cost Allocation rule that's applicable to the record.

¹ Fields used to build a unique ID for a single cost record. Every record in your cost details file should be considered unique.

The cost details file itself doesn’t uniquely identify individual records with an ID. Instead, you can use fields in the file flagged with ¹ to create a unique ID yourself.

Some fields might differ in casing and spacing between account types. Older versions of pay-as-you-go cost details files have separate sections for the statement and daily cost.

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