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The cost-estimation skill forecasts Azure spend and estimates prices for planned resources or workloads. Use it to project costs, compare regions or service tiers, and review public or negotiated prices.
Skill cost-estimation | Source code
When to use this skill
Use this skill when you need to:
- Forecast future costs for an existing Azure scope.
- Estimate the price of a planned workload.
- Compare service tiers, SKUs, or Azure regions.
- Retrieve public retail prices.
- Review Enterprise Agreement or Microsoft Customer Agreement prices.
Use Cost Analysis to explain historical spend. Use Cost Governance to review configured budgets and alerts.
Example prompts
- "Forecast my Azure spending for next month."
- "Estimate the monthly cost of three Linux VMs in East US."
- "Compare the price of these storage tiers."
- "Use my negotiated price sheet to estimate this workload."
The skill distinguishes forecasts based on historical usage from hypothetical pricing estimates and labels the assumptions behind each result.