Terms in your Enterprise Agreement price sheet

This article applies to an Azure billing account for an Enterprise Agreement (EA). Check if you have access to Enterprise Agreement.

Depending on the policies set for your organization by the Enterprise Admin, only certain administrative roles provide access to your organization's EA pricing information. For more information, see Understand Azure Enterprise Agreement administrative roles in Azure.

For billing periods January 2023 onwards, a new version of the Azure price sheet is available for download. The new version features a new schema. It's a .ZIP file to support large amounts of data.

Azure reservation pricing is available in the Azure Price Sheet for the current billing period. If you want to maintain an ongoing record of Azure reservation pricing, we recommend that you download your Azure Price Sheet for each billing period.

Terms and descriptions in your price sheet

The following section describes the terms shown in your Microsoft Enterprise Agreement price sheet.

Field Name Description
BasePrice The unit price at the time the customer signs the agreement. Or, the unit price at the time that the service meter becomes generally available (GA) if GA is after the agreement is signed.
CurrencyCode Currency in which the EA was signed.
EffectiveEndDate Effective end date of the price sheet.
EffectiveStartDate Effective start date of the price sheet.
IncludedQuantity Quantities of a specific service to which a customer is entitled to consume without incremental charges.
MarketPrice The current list price for a given product or service. The price is without any negotiations and is based on your Microsoft Agreement type. For PriceType Consumption, marketPrice is reflected as the pay-as-you-go price. For PriceType Savings Plan, market price reflects the Savings plan benefit on top of pay-as-you-go price for the corresponding commitment term. For PriceType ReservedInstance, marketPrice reflects the total price of the one or three-year commitment. For EA customers with no negotiations, MarketPrice might appear rounded to a different decimal precision than UnitPrice.
MeterId Unique identifier for the meter.
MeterCategory Name of the classification category for the meter. For example, Cloud services, and Networking.
MeterName Name of the meter. The meter represents the deployable resource of an Azure service.
MeterSubCategory Name of the meter subclassification category.
MeterRegion Name of the region where the meter for the service is available. Identifies the location of the datacenter for certain services that are priced based on datacenter location.
MeterType Name of the meter type.
OfferID Offer ID associated with the meter.
PartNumber Part number associated with the meter.
priceType Price type for a product. For example, an Azure resource has its pay-as-you-go rate with priceType as Consumption. If the resource is eligible for a savings plan, it also has its savings plan rate with another priceType as SavingsPlan. Other priceTypes include ReservedInstance.
Product Name of the product accruing the charges. For example, Basic SQL DB vs Standard SQL DB.
ProductID Unique identifier for the product whose meter is consumed.
ServiceFamily Type of Azure service. For example, Compute, Analytics, and Security.
SkuID Unique identifier of the SKU.
Term Duration associated with priceType. For example, SavingsPlan priceType has two commitment options: one year and three years. The term is P1Y for a one-year commitment and P3Y for a three-year commitment.
UnitOfMeasure Identifies the units of measure for billing for the service. For example, compute services are billed per hour.
UnitPrice The per-unit price at the time of billing for a given product or service. It includes any negotiated discounts on top of the market price. For PriceType ReservedInstance, unitPrice reflects the total cost of the one or three-year commitment including discounts. Note: The unit price isn't the same as the effective price in usage details downloads when services have differential prices across tiers. If services have multi-tiered pricing, the effective price is a blended rate across the tiers and doesn't show a tier-specific unit price. The blended price or effective price is the net price for the consumed quantity spanning across the multiple tiers, where each tier has a specific unit price.

Check access to an Enterprise Agreement

Use the following steps to check the agreement type to determine whether you have access to a billing account for an Enterprise Agreement.

  1. Go to the Azure portal to check for billing account access. Search for and select Cost Management + Billing.
    Screenshot showing search.
  2. If you have access to just one billing scope, select Properties from the menu. You have access to a billing account for an Enterprise Agreement if the billing account type is Enterprise Agreement.
    Screenshot showing the enrollment billing account properties.
  3. If you have access to multiple billing scopes, check the type in the billing account column. You have access to a billing account for an Enterprise Agreement if the billing account type for any of the scopes is Enterprise Agreement.
    Screenshot showing billing scopes.

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