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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), Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), and Microsoft Partner Agreement (MPA) accounts.
MPA accounts have all MCA terms, in addition to the MPA terms, as described in the following table. To identify what account type you are, see supported Microsoft Azure offers.
Term
Account type
Description
AccountId
EA, pay-as-you-go
Unique identifier for the EA enrollment account.
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
The email ID of the EA enrollment account owner.
AdditionalInfo¹
All
Service-specific metadata. For example, an image type for a virtual machine.
AvailabilityZone
External account
Valid only for cost data obtained from the cross-cloud connector. The field displays the availability zone in which the AWS service is deployed.
BenefitId¹
EA, MCA
Unique identifier for the purchased savings plan instance.
BenefitName
EA, MCA
Unique identifier for the purchased savings plan instance.
BillingAccountId¹
All
Unique identifier for the root billing account.
BillingAccountName
All
Name of the billing account.
BillingCurrency
All
Currency associated with the billing account.
BillingCurrencyCode
All
See BillingCurrency.
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 AWS⁴ consolidated account.
BillingProfileName
All
Name of the EA enrollment, pay-as-you-go subscription, MCA billing profile, or AWS⁴ 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.
CostAllocationRuleName
EA, MCA
Name of the Cost Allocation rule that's applicable to the record.
CostInBillingCurrency
EA, 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.
costInUsd
MCA
Cost of the charge in USD currency before credits or taxes.
Currency
EA, pay-as-you-go
See BillingCurrency.
CustomerName
MPA
Name of the Microsoft Entra tenant for the customer's subscription.
CustomerTenantId
MPA
Identifier of the Microsoft Entra tenant of the customer's subscription.
Date¹
All
The usage or purchase date of the charge.
EffectivePrice² ³
All
The price for a given product or service that represents the actual rate that you end up paying per unit.
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).
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
The normalized location used to resolve inconsistencies in region names sent by different Azure Resource Providers (RPs). The normalized location is based strictly on the resource location sent by RPs in usage data and is programmatically normalized to mitigate inconsistencies. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or unassigned. For example, US East.
MeterCategory
All
Name of the classification category for the meter. For example, Cloud services and Networking. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or unassigned.
MeterId¹
All
The unique identifier for the meter.
MeterName
All
The name of the meter. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or unassigned.
MeterRegion
All
The name of the Azure region associated with the meter. It generally aligns with the resource location, except for certain global meters that are shared across regions. In such cases, the meter region indicates the primary region of the meter. Note: The meter is used to track the usage of specific services or resources, mainly for billing purposes. Each Azure service, resource, and region have its own billing meter ID that precisely reflects how its consumption and price are calculated.
MeterSubCategory
All
Name of the meter subclassification category. Purchases and Marketplace usage might be shown as blank or unassigned.
OfferId¹
EA, pay-as-you-go
Name of the Azure offer, which is the type of Azure subscription that you have. For more information, see supported Microsoft Azure offer details.
pay-as-you-goPrice² ³
All
The market price, also referred to as retail or list price, for a given product or service. For more information, see Pricing behavior in cost details.
PartnerEarnedCreditApplied
MPA
Indicates whether the partner earned credit was applied.
PartnerEarnedCreditRate
MPA
Rate of discount applied if there's a partner earned credit (PEC), based on partner admin link access.
PartnerName
MPA
Name of the partner Microsoft Entra tenant.
PartnerTenantId
MPA
Identifier for the partner's Microsoft Entra tenant.
PartNumber¹
EA, pay-as-you-go
Identifier used to get specific meter pricing.
paygCostInBillingCurrency
MCA
The amount of Pay-As-You-Go (PayG) cost before tax in billing currency. You can compute paygCostInBillingCurrency by multiplying PayGPrice, quantity and exchangeRatePricingToBilling.
paygCostInUsd
MCA
The amount of Pay-As-You-Go (PayG) cost before tax in USD currency.
PlanName
EA, pay-as-you-go
Marketplace plan name.
PreTaxCost
EA, pay-as-you-go
Cost of the charge before credits or taxes. You can compute PreTaxCost by multiplying ResourceRate with UsageQuantity.
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: OnDemand, Reservation, Spot, and SavingsPlan)
ProductName
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
MCA
Identifier for product category or Line of Business. For example, Azure, Microsoft 365, and AWS⁴.
PublisherId
MCA
The ID of the publisher. It's only available after the invoice is generated.
PublisherName
All
The name of the publisher. For first-party services, the value should be listed as Microsoft or Microsoft Corporation.
PublisherType
All
Supported values: Microsoft, Azure, AWS⁴, Marketplace. For MCA accounts, the value can be Microsoft for first party charges and Marketplace for third party charges. For EA and pay-as-you-go accounts, the value is Azure.
Quantity³
All
The number of units used by the given product or service for a given day.
ResellerName
MPA
The name of the reseller associated with the subscription.
ResellerMpnId
MPA
ID for the reseller associated with the subscription.
ReservationId¹
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 are shown as null or empty, Others, or Not applicable.
Standardized format of the Azure region where the resource is deployed, also referred to as the datacenter location where the resource is running. The normalized location is used to resolve inconsistencies in region names sent by different Azure Resource Providers (RPs).
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 are shown as null/empty, Others , or Not applicable.
ResourceRate
pay-as-you-go
The price for a given product or service that represents the actual rate that you end up paying per unit.
ResourceType
MCA
Type of resource instance. Not all charges come from deployed resources. Charges that don't have a resource type are 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.
ServiceName
pay-as-you-go
The service family that the service belongs to.
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.
ServiceTier
pay-as-you-go
Name of the service subclassification category.
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: For 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.
UnitPrice² ³
All
The price for a given product or service inclusive of any negotiated discount that you might have on top of the market price (PayG price column) for your contract. For more information, see Pricing behavior in cost details.
UsageDateTime
EA, pay-as-you-go
The usage date of the charge in yyyy-mm-dd format.
UsageQuantity
pay-as-you-go
The number of units used by the given product or service for a given day.
¹ Fields used to build a unique ID for a single cost record. Every record in your cost details file should be considered unique.
² For MCA customers, prices are shown in the pricing currency in the Actual Cost and Amortized Cost reports. In contrast, for EA customers, the billing and pricing currencies are the same.
⁴ The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service retires on March 31, 2025. Users should consider alternative solutions for AWS cost management reporting. On March 31, 2024, Azure will disable the ability to add new Connectors for AWS for all customers. For more information, see Retire your Amazon Web Services (AWS) connector.
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.
Part numbers in the EA invoice are also in the cost and usage file
Records in cost and usage file and other cost management experiences, such as cost analysis, include part numbers matching them with the part numbers in the EA invoice. The part numbers in the cost and usage file are shown only for EA customers.
Part numbers are shown for all usage records.
Part numbers are shown for all purchase and refund records.
Part numbers are the same in the invoice and cost and usage file details for all charge types, excluding Azure Savings Plan and prepurchase reservations. They currently don't have a part number in the cost and usage details file.
Reconcile charges in the cost and usage details file
Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) customers can use the following information to reconcile charges between billing and pricing currencies.
Manually calculate the CostInPricingCurrency by: (EffectivePrice) * (Quantity)
Convert the calculated CostInPricingCurrency to the CostInBillingCurrency by: (CalculatedCostInPricingCurrency) * (ExchangeRatePricingToBilling)
Summarize the values that you calculated for CostInBillingCurrency and compare them to the invoice.
Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers can reconcile their charges using the following computation:
Manually calculate the cost by multiplying the Effective Price by the Quantity:
Cost = (EffectivePrice) * (Quantity)
Reconcile reservation purchases with usage records
Every reservation purchase and usage record has two associated IDs: ReservationId and ProductOrderId.
Reservation purchase records (PricingModel = Reservation, ChargeType = Purchase):
The records carry the purchase order ID as ProductOrderId.
Additionally, they stamp the same purchase order ID as ReservationId.
Reservation usage records (PricingModel = Reservation, ChargeType = Usage/UnusedReservation):
Like purchase records, the usage records also carry the purchase order ID as ProductOrderId.
However, the ReservationId can differ, as it gets attributed to the resources that benefited from the reservation.
Keep in mind that actions such as split, merge, partial refund, or exchange can create new reservations.
Although the ReservationId itself might differ, it's still part of the same order. Therefore, the ProductOrderId can be effectively used to associate the purchase with the usage record, facilitating reconciliation between reservation purchases and usage.
Record type
PricingModel
ChargeType
ReservationId
ProductOrderId
Reservation purchase record (actual cost)
Reservation
Purchase
Purchase order ID
Purchase order ID
Reservation usage record (amortized and actual cost)
Included quantity (IQ) refers to the amount of a metered resource that can be consumed without incurring any extra cost in an Enterprise Agreement. When dealing with IQ, consider the following points:
Meter characteristics - Meters associated with IQ exhibit specific traits in the cost file because the meters allow consumption without any extra charges. In the cost file, a meter with IQ has:
ChargeType: Usage, PricingModel: OnDemand.
Unit price, effective price, and Cost set to 0, because you don't get billed for their consumption.
Quantity isn't zero. It shows the actual consumption of the meter.
However, the PayG (pay-as-you-go) price still shows the retail price, which is nonzero.
Rounding adjustment details
A rounding adjustment represents the quantization that occurs during cost calculation. When the calculated costs are converted to the invoiced total, small rounding errors can occur. The rounding errors are represented as rounding adjustment to ensure that the costs shown in Cost Management align to the invoice.
Why do we have rounding adjustment?
Every financial system involves rounding logic, which can cause some variance. Invoices aggregate monthly costs at the meter level, with costs rounded depending on the currency. In contrast, the cost file contains costs at the resource instance level with higher precision. This difference results in a variance in the total cost between the invoice and the cost file. The rounding adjustment is provided in the cost file at an aggregated level whenever the invoice is ready, ensuring that the total costs in both files match.
Note: Two separate rounding adjustments are provided—one for first-party records and the other for marketplace records. These adjustments aren't available during an open month and become visible when the month closes and the invoice is generated.
Customers can spread the rounding adjustment over finer details like individual resources, resource groups, or entire subscriptions. You can use a weighted average or use similar techniques.
Rounding adjustment record in the cost file
The rounding adjustment record is available in the cost file at the Billing Profile scope for Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) or at the Enrollment scope for Enterprise Agreement (EA). Since it’s an aggregated value at the invoice level, there’s no lower-scope-level information for the record. The following fields are valid for a rounding adjustment record:
BillingAccountId
BillingAccountName
BillingPeriodStartDate
BillingPeriodEndDate
BillingProfileId
BillingProfileName
MeterCategory, MeterSubCategory, and ChargeType fields have the value as RoundingAdjustment.
Illustration of rounding adjustment
Suppose you have two resources in your subscription: A and B. Resource A costs $0.1234 per hour and resource B costs $0.5678 per hour. You use both resources for 10 hours in a day, so the total cost for each resource is:
Resource A: $0.1234 x 10 = $1.234
Resource B: $0.5678 x 10 = $5.678
The total cost for the day is $1.234 + $5.678 = $6.912.
However, when the invoice is generated, the costs are rounded to two decimal places, so the invoice shows:
Resource A: $1.23
Resource B: $5.68
Total: $6.91
The difference between the invoice total and the actual total is $0.002, which is the rounding adjustment. To ensure Cost Management costs match the invoice, an amount of -$0.002 is shown in the cost file as the rounding adjustment after the invoice generation.
List of terms from older APIs
The following table maps terms used in older APIs to the new terms. Refer to the previous table for descriptions.
This article explains how to use cost details records to correlate meter-based charges with the specific resources responsible for the charges. Then you can properly reconcile your bill.