Azure API Management Pricing
Starting price
$0/month
Pricing model
Paid
Free tier
No
Free trial
No
Plans
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumption | $0 | month | Pay-per-call: first 1M calls/month free; ~$3.50 per additional million calls; Serverless, auto-scales with demand |
| Developer | $50 | month | Non-production use only (dev and test); 1 scale unit, billed ~$0.07/hour (approx); No SLA included |
| Basic | $150 | month | Entry-level production tier; ~$0.21/hour per unit (approx monthly ~$150); Up to 2 scale units, 50 MB cache |
| Standard | $700 | month | Mid-volume production workloads; ~$0.96/hour per unit (approx monthly ~$700); Up to 4 scale units, 1 GB cache |
| Premium | $2795 | month | Enterprise-scale and multi-region deployments; ~$3.83/hour per unit (approx monthly ~$2,795); Up to 12 scale units per region, 5 GB cache |
| Basic v2 | $150 | month | Modern v2 platform, faster provisioning; Includes 10M API requests/month; Up to 10 scale units with autoscaling |
| Standard v2 | $700 | month | Production-ready v2 tier with SLA; Includes 50M API requests/month; Up to 10 scale units with autoscaling |
| Premium v2 | $2801 | month | Enterprise v2 tier on dedicated infrastructure; Full VNet injection (no public IP exposed); Up to 30 scale units, availability zones |
Figures are the vendor's published prices. Unknown values show as “—”. Price-history tracking is not yet available for this tool. Price verified 2026-10-03. Last updated 2026-10-07.
True cost
True cost calculator
| Plan | Listed | Seat basis | Monthly · 5 seats | Annual · 5 seats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumption | $0/month | flat | $0 | $0 |
| Developer | $50/month | flat | $50 | $600 |
| Basic | $150/month | flat | $150 | $1,800 |
| Standard | $700/month | flat | $700 | $8,400 |
| Premium | $2,795/month | flat | $2,795 | $33,540 |
| Basic v2 | $150/month | flat | $150 | $1,800 |
| Standard v2 | $700/month | flat | $700 | $8,400 |
| Premium v2 | $2,801/month | flat | $2,801 | $33,612 |
Estimate from published prices. Per-seat plans scale with seats; flat plans don't; plans with included seats charge the base until you exceed them, then add the per-seat overage where published. Monthly/annual come from each plan's billing period. Taxes and add-ons excluded.
Azure API Management's starting price ($0) is 100% below the API Management average of $66.