Optimize your Azure Cosmos DB costs

Optimize your costs for applications in development or production using Azure Cosmos DB.

Understand our pricing model

Concept

• Pricing model
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Understand your bill

Plan for optimization

Quickstart

• Plan and manage costs
• Limit total account throughput

Optimize actual costs

Concept

• Optimize provisioned throughput cost
• Optimize request cost
• Optimize storage cost
• Optimize multi-region cost
• Optimize development/testing cost
• Optimize cost with reserved capacity
• Optimize using rate limiting

Develop for free

How-To Guide

• Free tier
• Use the emulator