How much does Azure Blob Storage cost in 2026?

Azure Blob Storage charges $0.018 per GB-month of storage, per Microsoft's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.

Does Azure Blob Storage have a free tier?

Yes — 5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.

What does Azure Blob Storage charge for egress?

$0.087 per GB. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.

Are these Azure Blob Storage prices current?

They were checked against Microsoft's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

Azure Blob Storage pricing

Microsoft's object store with hot, cool, cold, and archive tiers. Moving between tiers carries its own transaction cost that is easy to miss when modelling the bill.

List prices checked May 2026

By Microsoft · Object storage

Rate card

What Microsoft charges, by billing axis.

Axis	Price	Applies to
Storage	$0.018/GB-mo	Standard or hot storage class
Data transfer out	$0.087/GB	Standard tier, cheapest common region
Free tier	Yes	5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months

Source: Microsoft pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Azure Blob Storage billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$9.06/mo

20 GB at $0.018/GB-month$0.36
100 GB at $0.087/GB$8.70

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$96/mo

500 GB at $0.018/GB-month$9.00
1 TB at $0.087/GB$87

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$906/mo

2 TB at $0.018/GB-month$36
10 TB at $0.087/GB$870

Azure Blob Storage vs the alternatives

The closest object storage services on price, with the difference on object storage's headline axis.

Service	Storage	vs Azure Blob Storage	Compare
Scaleway Object Storage	$0.018	1× cheaper	Head to head
Google Cloud Storage	$0.020	1.1× dearer	Head to head
DigitalOcean Spaces	$0.020	1.1× dearer	Head to head
Linode Object Storage	$0.020	1.1× dearer	Head to head
Cloudflare R2	$0.015	1.2× cheaper	Head to head
AWS S3	$0.023	1.3× dearer	Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Azure Blob Storage cost in 2026?: Azure Blob Storage charges $0.018 per GB-month of storage, per Microsoft's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Azure Blob Storage have a free tier?: Yes — 5 GB of hot block storage for 12 months. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
What does Azure Blob Storage charge for egress?: $0.087 per GB. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these Azure Blob Storage prices current?: They were checked against Microsoft's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

Rate card

What it costs per month

Azure Blob Storage vs the alternatives

Questions about pricing

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