Microsoft Windows 10 Plans Pricing
Microsoft Windows 10 reached End of Support on 2025-10-14. The Windows 10 platform APIs (Win32, UWP, WinRT) are local to the OS and are not metered or sold as a network API. Commercially, Microsoft now sells Windows 10 access primarily as a per-device Extended Security Updates (ESU) subscription via Volume Licensing, priced at $61/device for Year One, doubling each subsequent year for up to three years (Year 2 = $122, Year 3 = $244). ESU is included at no extra cost for Windows 10 VMs running on Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure VMs, and several Azure Stack / VMware Solution offerings.
Microsoft Windows 10 Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Microsoft Windows 10 on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering subscription tiers, with named plans including Windows 10 ESU — Year 1 (Commercial), Windows 10 ESU — Year 2 (Commercial), Windows 10 ESU — Year 3 (Commercial), Windows 10 ESU — Cloud / VM (Included), Windows 10 Consumer ESU.
Tagged areas include Operating System, Desktop, Windows, and Microsoft.
Plans
First-year Extended Security Updates subscription via Microsoft Volume Licensing. Coverage period begins November 2025; minimum 1 license.
- Critical and important security updates
- Windows 10 22H2 prerequisite
- Cumulative — must purchase prior years
Second-year Extended Security Updates. Price doubles year-over-year.
- Cumulative — Year 1 must also be purchased
Third (and final) year of ESU eligibility for commercial/educational customers.
- Maximum three years of post-EOS coverage
- Cumulative — prior years must be purchased
ESU is included at no additional cost for Windows 10 virtual machines on Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure VMs, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure VMware Solution, Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure, Azure Local, Azure Stack Hub, and Azure Stack Edge. Endpoints connecting to Windows 365 Cloud PCs are also entitled.
- Windows 365
- Azure Virtual Desktop
- Azure VMs
- Azure Local / Stack Hub / Stack Edge
- Azure VMware Solution
Separate consumer-targeted ESU enrollment for Windows 10 Home customers; pricing and enrollment are managed via the Windows ESU consumer page.
- Windows 10 Home eligible
- Critical and important security updates only
Sources
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/extended-security-updates
- https://www.microsoft.com/windows/end-of-support
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