Microsoft Azure Api Management Plans Pricing

Azure API Management is offered in classic tiers (Consumption, Developer, Basic, Standard, Premium) and v2 tiers (Basic v2, Standard v2, Premium v2). Consumption is serverless and metered per call. All other tiers are billed hourly per scale unit. Prices vary by region; values below are typical US East list prices.

Microsoft Azure Api Management Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Microsoft Azure API Management on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 8 plans, covering usage-based and subscription tiers, with named plans including Consumption, Developer, Basic, Basic v2, Standard, and 3 more.

Tagged areas include API Gateway, API Management, Enterprise, and Microsoft Azure.

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Plans

Consumption usage-based

Serverless, pay-per-call API gateway. First 1M calls/month free, then per-call pricing. No SLA on calls below 1M; supports lightweight workloads.

API calls (first 1M / month) (call · month) 0.00 USD
API calls (above 1M) (call · month) ~$3.50 per 1M calls (region-varying); see Azure pricing page USD
Developer subscription

Non-production tier for evaluation and dev/test. No SLA. One scale unit, full feature set.

Per unit / hour (hour · hour) see Azure pricing calculator USD
Basic subscription

Entry production tier. Up to 2 scale units. No virtual network injection.

Per unit / hour (hour · hour) starts ~$0.21/hour (~$150/unit/month list); see Azure pricing page USD
Basic v2 subscription

Modernized v2 entry tier with autoscaling and faster provisioning. Includes 10M API requests/month; additional usage billed per 1M requests. Up to 10 scale units.

Per unit / month (includes 10M requests) (month · month) ~$150 per unit/month list; ~$3 per additional 1M requests USD
Standard subscription

Mid-tier production with broader feature support. Up to 4 scale units.

Per unit / hour (hour · hour) starts ~$0.96/hour (~$700/unit/month list); see Azure pricing page USD
Standard v2 subscription

Modernized v2 standard tier with autoscaling and outbound VNet integration. Includes 50M API requests/month; additional usage billed per 1M requests.

Per unit / month (includes 50M requests) (month · month) ~$700 per unit/month list; ~$2.50 per additional 1M requests USD
Premium subscription

Enterprise tier with multi-region deployment, VNet injection, self-hosted gateways, and workspaces. Up to 12 scale units per region.

Per unit / hour (per region) (hour · hour) starts ~$3.83/hour (~$2,795/unit/month list); see Azure pricing page USD
Premium v2 subscription

v2 premium with availability zones, outbound VNet integration, and workspaces. Up to 30 scale units; unlimited included requests; 99.99% SLA.

Per unit / month (month · month) starts ~$2,801 per unit/month list; unlimited included requests USD

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