Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Plans Pricing
Azure Kubernetes Service charges only for the cluster-management control plane (Free, Standard, Premium tiers); worker-node VMs and other Azure resources are billed separately at standard Azure rates. AKS Long-Term Support (LTS), Azure Container Storage, and uptime SLA differ by tier.
Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Azure Kubernetes Service on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 3 plans, covering freemium and subscription tiers, with named plans including Free, Standard, Premium.
Tagged areas include Kubernetes, Containers, Compute, and Microsoft Azure.
Plans
No-cost cluster management for dev/test and small non-critical workloads. No SLA; best-effort availability.
- No SLA (best-effort)
- Recommended for dev/test
- Worker nodes pay standard VM rates
Production-grade cluster management with 99.95% (with AZ) / 99.9% uptime SLA on the API server.
- 99.95% (with AZ) / 99.9% API server SLA
- Recommended for production
- Worker nodes pay standard VM rates
Standard plus Long-Term Support (LTS) - up to 2 years of Kubernetes version support per release. Recommended for regulated and long-lived workloads.
- All Standard features
- Long-Term Support (up to 2 years per K8s release)
- Recommended for regulated workloads
Sources
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/kubernetes-service/
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/free-standard-pricing-tiers
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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.