Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, low-latency layer-4 load balancing service for distributing inbound and outbound network traffic across virtual machines and other Azure resources. It supports public and internal load balancers, health probes, NAT rules, and HA scenarios.
Azure Load Balancer publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: Load Balancers API. Tagged areas include Microsoft Azure, High Availability, Layer 4, Load Balancing, and Networks.
The Azure Load Balancer catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Azure Load Balancer’s developer surface includes CLI, changelog, getting-started guide, authentication, developer portal, documentation, pricing, and 38 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cisco DevNet Ecosystem (builders on Meraki, Catalyst, ISE, ThousandEyes, Splunk) | undeclared | - | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 1
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Azure Load Balancer Load Balancers API
The Load Balancers API from Azure Load Balancer — 20 operation(s) for load balancers.
Open Collections 3
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Azure Load Balancer REST Load Balancers API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Load Balancer REST Load Balancers Operations API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Load Balancer REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONAzure Load Balancer API pricing
Prices published by Azure Load Balancer, read 2026-10-28 from azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/load-balancer/. A free plan or tier is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard Load Balancer – First 5 rules (Regional Tier) | $-/hour Includes: First 5 rules |
| Standard Load Balancer – Inbound NAT rules | Free Includes: Inbound NAT rules |
| Standard Load Balancer – Data processed (Regional) | $- per GB |
| Standard Load Balancer – Data processed (Global Tier) | No additional charge* Includes: Packets routed from Global-tier (Cross-region) Load Balancer to Regional-tier Load Balancer |
| Gateway Load Balancer – Gateway hour | $-/hour |
| Gateway Load Balancer – Chain hour | $-/hour |
| Gateway Load Balancer – Data processed | $- per GB |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Subscription reads: Subscription reads 250 25
- Subscription deletes: Subscription deletes 200 10
- Subscription writes: Subscription writes 200 10
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Azure Load Balancer Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSCompliance 1
Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.
Azure Load Balancer
1 quoted statement, read from Azure Load Balancer's own page on 2026-11-10.
COMPLIANCEFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Layer-4 Load Balancing
Distribute TCP and UDP traffic across virtual machines and resources with high performance and low latency.
Public and Internal Load Balancers
Support both public-facing and internal load balancing scenarios for diverse network architectures.
Health Probes
Monitor backend instance health with configurable TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS probes for automatic failover.
NAT Rules
Configure inbound NAT rules to forward traffic to specific backend instances on designated ports.
High Availability Ports
Load balance all TCP and UDP flows on all ports simultaneously for network virtual appliance scenarios.
Cross-Region Load Balancing
Distribute traffic across Azure regions for global high availability and disaster recovery.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
Azure Load Balancer API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 9
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
BackendAddressPool
JSON SCHEMAFrontendIPConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAInboundNatRule
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancerHealthPerRule
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancer
JSON SCHEMALoadBalancingRule
JSON SCHEMAOperationList
JSON SCHEMAResourceList
JSON SCHEMAResource
JSON SCHEMAScroll for all 9
Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 3
What developers build with this provider.
Web Application High Availability
Distribute traffic across multiple web servers for improved reliability and uptime.
VM Scale Set Load Balancing
Automatically balance traffic across virtual machine scale sets with auto-scaling capabilities.
Network Virtual Appliance Distribution
Distribute traffic across multiple firewall or NVA instances using HA ports.
Integrations 3
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Azure Virtual Machines
Distribute network traffic across pools of Azure virtual machines.
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Integrate with VMSS for automatic scaling and load distribution.
Azure Monitor
Monitor load balancer health, performance metrics, and diagnostic logs.
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 8
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Scroll for all 8
Operate 6
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Azure Load Balancer API — frequently asked questions
Does Azure Load Balancer have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Azure Load Balancer, including Azure Load Balancer Load Balancers API.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Azure Load Balancer API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Azure Load Balancer, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Azure Load Balancer API?
Azure Load Balancer uses bearer-token authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Azure Load Balancer Authentication.
How much does the Azure Load Balancer API cost?
Azure Load Balancer publishes its prices; its Standard Load Balancer – First 5 rules (Regional Tier) plan is $-/hour as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for Azure Load Balancer, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Azure Load Balancer API ready for AI agents?
Azure Load Balancer has a Kin Score of 70.2 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
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