Azure Functions pricing

Microsoft's event-driven compute, with a consumption plan matching Lambda's economics and premium plans that trade scale-to-zero for predictable latency.

List prices checked

By Microsoft · Serverless functions

Rate card

What Microsoft charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Free tierYes1M executions and 400,000 GB-seconds per month

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 Functions 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.

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Microsoft does not publish a rate for platform on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Growing SaaS

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

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Microsoft does not publish a rate for platform on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Media-heavy site

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

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Microsoft does not publish a rate for platform on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Azure Functions vs the alternatives

The closest serverless platforms on price, with the difference on serverless functions's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs Azure FunctionsCompare
Cloudflare Workers$5.00—Head to head
Netlify Functions$19.00—Head to head
Vercel Functions$20.00—Head to head
Deno Deploy$20.00—Head to head
Fastly Compute$50.00—Head to head
AWS Lambda——Head to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Azure Functions cost in 2026?
Azure Functions charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per Microsoft's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: 1M executions and 400,000 GB-seconds per month. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Azure Functions have a free tier?
Yes — 1M executions and 400,000 GB-seconds per month. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
Are these Azure Functions 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.

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