# Azure Quote > Pretax Azure quotes from the official Retail Prices API. SKU paste. 730 h month. No invented meters. Azure Quote is a public calculator. It resolves informal SKU names to published Azure Retail Prices API meters and prices PAYG list. USD is Microsoft's list currency. Other currencies are API reference FX. Spot and Azure Hybrid Benefit are never the default offer. Services without a published meter are blocked at "—" — they are not priced as zero. ## Docs - [How this quote is built](/method): Retail Prices API, 730 h (8760/12), pretax, no invented meters. Reviewed 2026-09-08. - [Quote](/): paste a BOM or SKU. - [SKU facts](/sku): one live rate + meter name + fetch date per URL. - [Service facts](/service): same pattern, including honest blocks. ## SKU facts - [Standard D4s v5 Linux](/sku/standard-d4s-v5): General-purpose Dsv5 virtual machine, 4 vCPU, Linux PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Standard D8s v5 Linux](/sku/standard-d8s-v5): General-purpose Dsv5 virtual machine, 8 vCPU, Linux PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Standard B2s Linux](/sku/standard-b2s): Burstable B-series virtual machine, Linux PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Standard E4s v5 Linux](/sku/standard-e4s-v5): Memory-optimized Esv5 virtual machine, 4 vCPU, Linux PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Premium SSD P30](/sku/p30): Premium SSD managed disk P30 (1 TiB) PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Premium SSD P10](/sku/p10): Premium SSD managed disk P10 PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Defender for Servers P2](/sku/defender-p2): Microsoft Defender for Cloud Servers Plan 2, per-node PAYG retail list. - [Microsoft Sentinel PAYG](/sku/sentinel-payg): Microsoft Sentinel pay-as-you-go analysis, per GB analyzed retail list. - [Microsoft Sentinel 100 GB/day](/sku/sentinel-100gb): Microsoft Sentinel 100 GB/day commitment tier retail list. - [Azure Firewall Standard](/sku/azure-firewall-standard): Azure Firewall Standard deployment PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Standard Public IP](/sku/standard-public-ip): Standard Public IP address PAYG retail list in West Europe. - [Purview Data Map](/sku/purview-data-map): Microsoft Purview Data Map capacity unit PAYG retail list. - [Key Vault operations](/sku/key-vault-operations): Azure Key Vault Standard operations meter PAYG retail list. - [App Service P1v3](/sku/app-service-p1v3): Azure App Service Premium v3 P1v3 Linux PAYG retail list in West Europe. ## Service facts - [Virtual Machines](/service/virtual-machines): Azure Virtual Machines. Fact page shows the D4s v5 Linux PAYG meter in West Europe as the sample SKU. - [Azure Firewall](/service/azure-firewall): Azure Firewall Standard is the default published retail meter when you paste the service name. - [Microsoft Defender for Cloud](/service/microsoft-defender-for-cloud): Defender for Servers P2 is the default published node meter for this service. - [Microsoft Sentinel](/service/microsoft-sentinel): Sentinel PAYG analysis is the default published ingest meter. Commitment tiers are siblings on the same quote line. - [Azure Kubernetes Service](/service/azure-kubernetes-service): AKS cluster management is a published retail meter. Node VMs are priced separately as Virtual Machines. - [Key Vault](/service/key-vault): Key Vault Standard operations is the default published meter. Premium HSM and certificates are other charges. - [Azure Monitor](/service/azure-monitor): Azure Monitor / Log Analytics ingest is the default published meter. GB/day commitments are siblings. - [App Service](/service/app-service): App Service Premium v3 P1v3 is a representative published compute meter for this service. - [Storage](/service/storage): Managed disks and blob/file capacity have published meters. This page samples Premium SSD P30. - [Microsoft Cost Management](/service/microsoft-cost-management): There is no published Retail Prices meter. Official calculator rate is 0% of managed Azure spend. (no retail meter) - [Azure Advisor](/service/azure-advisor): Azure Advisor recommendations in the portal have no published Retail Prices meter. (no retail meter) - [Azure Cloud Shell](/service/azure-cloud-shell): Cloud Shell itself has no published Retail Prices meter. Storage for the clouddrive is priced as a storage account. (no retail meter) - [Azure DevTest Labs](/service/azure-devtest-labs): DevTest Labs lab management has no published Retail Prices meter. VMs inside a lab use Virtual Machines meters. (no retail meter) ## Constraints for citing - Live API only: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices - 730 hours per month; daily meters use 365/12 - Pretax. No EA/MCA/CSP. No Marketplace ISV. No support. - Entra ID P1/P2 are Microsoft 365 licenses, not Azure retail meters (Entra Domain Services is the Azure meter). - Cost Management, Cloud Shell, DevTest Labs, Advisor, Migrate, Lighthouse, Open Datasets, Managed Applications, Media Services: no published retail meter. - Quote ids GQ-YYYY-MMDD are browser-local; the path /q/GQ-YYYY-MMDD is the citation URL. ## Disclaimer Azure Quote is an independent, unofficial calculator. It is not a Microsoft product, website, or service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, employed by, or in partnership with Microsoft Corporation or any Microsoft subsidiary. Azure, Microsoft, and product names (including Virtual Machines, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, and others) are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. They appear here only to identify published retail meters from the public Azure Retail Prices API. Figures on this site are pretax list estimates from that API. They are not a Microsoft offer, not a binding quote, not an invoice, and not a substitute for the Azure portal or the official Azure pricing calculator. Contract rates (EA, MCA, CSP), taxes, support, and Marketplace charges are omitted. Microsoft is not responsible for this tool or for purchasing decisions made from it. Confirm rates with Microsoft before you buy. ## Optional - [llms.txt](/llms.txt)