Build apps that scale with managed and intelligent SQL database in the cloud
Part of the Azure SQL family of SQL database services, Azure SQL Database is the intelligent, scalable database service built for the cloud with AI-powered features that maintain peak performance and durability. Optimize costs without worrying about resource management with serverless compute and Hyperscale storage resources that automatically scale.
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Pay as you go
Pay only for what you use, with no long-term commitments or upfront payments. Increase or decrease consumption on demand.
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Savings plan for databases
Save money across select database services globally by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for 1 year, unlocking lower prices until you reach your hourly commitment. Suited for dynamic workloads while accommodating for planned or unplanned changes.
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Azure reservations
Receive a discount on Azure services by purchasing a reservation, which is a one- or three-year agreement to use a specific instance of a service.
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Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment, or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
Important—The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes. An eNF will not be issued.
vCore
A vCore-based purchase model is best if you are looking for flexibility, control and transparency of individual resource consumption. This model allows you to scale compute, memory, and storage based upon your workload needs and provides a straightforward way to translate on-premises workload requirements to the cloud.
Serverless compute
The SQL Database serverless compute tier optimizes price-performance and simplifies performance management for single databases with intermittent, unpredictable usage by auto-scaling compute and billing for compute used per second. For details, see the FAQ section and documentation.
General purpose
Ideal for most business workloads, offering balanced and scalable compute and storage options.
Standard-series (Gen 5)
Standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz, Intel SP8160 (Skylake), Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL 2.5 GHz (Cascade Lake) and Intel(R) Xeon Scalable 2.8 GHz processor (Ice Lake) processors. In the standard-series (Gen 5), 1 vCore = 1 hyper thread. The standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPU is great for most relational database servers.
| Minimum vCores | Maximum vCores | Minimum Memory (GB) | Maximum Memory (GB) | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan (compute) |
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| 0.5 | 80 | 2.02 | 240 |
$-/vCore-second ($-/vCore-hour) |
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Locally Redundant Storage
In the general purpose tier, you are charged for Premium blob storage that you provision. Storage can be configured between 5 GB and 4 TB with 1 GB increments.
| Storage | Price |
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| GB/month | $- |
Standard-series (Gen 5) - Zone Redundant
Standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz, Intel SP8160 (Skylake) processors and Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL 2.5 GHz (Cascade Lake) processors. In the standard-series (Gen 5), 1 vCore = 1 hyper thread. The standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPU is great for most relational database servers. Zone redundancy provides enhanced availability by automatically replicating data across the availability zones within a region. For the general purpose tier, this option incurs an additional cost.
| Minimum vCores | Maximum vCores | Minimum Memory (GB) | Maximum Memory (GB) | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan (compute) |
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| 0.5 | 80 | 2.02 | 240 |
$-/vCore-second ($-/vCore-hour) |
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Zone Redundant Storage
In the general purpose tier, you are charged for Premium file shares that you provision. Storage can be configured between 5 GB and 4 TB with 1 GB increments. Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) copies your data synchronously across three Azure availability zones in the primary region.
| Storage | Price |
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| GB/month | $- |
Backup storage (point-in-time restore)
By default, seven days of database backups are stored in RA-GRS Standard blob storage. The retention period can be increased to up to 35 days. Any corrupted or deleted database can be restored to any point in time within that period. The storage is used by weekly full backups, daily differential backups and frequent transaction log backups in between. The backup cost depends on the size of the database, the rate of change and the configured retention period. The backup storage amount equal to the maximum data size is provided at no extra charge. Additional backup storage consumption will be charged in GB/month. Learn more about automated backups, and how to monitor and manage backup costs.
| Redundancy | Price |
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| LRS | $-/GB/month |
| ZRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GZRS | $-/GB/month |
Long-term retention
Many applications have regulatory, compliance, or other business purposes that require you to retain database backups for longer periods of time. By using the long-term retention (LTR) feature, you can store full backups for up to 10 years. You can then restore any backup as a new database. Learn more about long-term retention. The pricing listed below does not include certain additional components that may incur charges based on your specific configuration, such as Total Backups and Average database size during the retention period (GB). Please visit the Pricing calculator for the estimate.
| Redundancy | Price |
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| LRS | $-/GB/month |
| ZRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GZRS | $-/GB/month |
Hyperscale
Serverless Hyperscale combines the benefits of compute auto-scaling with storage auto-scaling up to 100 TB to help you optimize price-performance of your database resources to meet your workload's needs. If zone redundancy is enabled, the database must have at least one high availability (HA) replica. The pricing below is applicable for both primary and secondary (high availability and named) replicas. See the Azure Pricing Calculator for more information.
Standard-series (Gen 5)
Standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz, Intel SP8160 (Skylake), Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL 2.5 GHz (Cascade Lake) and Intel(R) Xeon Scalable 2.8 GHz processor (Ice Lake) processors. In the standard-series (Gen 5), 1 vCore = 1 hyper thread. The standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPU is great for most relational database servers.
| Minimum vCores | Maximum vCores | Minimum Memory (GB) | Maximum Memory (GB) | Pay as you go | 1 year savings plan (compute) |
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| 0.5 | 80 | 2.05 | 240 |
$-/vCore-second ($-/vCore-hour) |
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Storage
In the Hyperscale tier, you are charged for storage for your database based on actual allocation. Storage is dynamically allocated between 10 GB and 100 TB, in 10 GB increments.
| Storage | Price |
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| GB/month | $- |
Backup storage (point-in-time restore)
By default, seven days of database backups are stored in RA-GRS Standard blob storage. The retention period can be increased to up to 35 days. Any corrupted or deleted database can be restored to any point in time within that period. The storage is used by weekly full backups, daily differential backups and frequent transaction log backups in between. The backup cost depends on the size of the database, the rate of change and the configured retention period. The backup storage amount equal to the maximum data size is provided at no extra charge. Additional backup storage consumption will be charged in GB/month. Learn more about automated backups, and how to monitor and manage backup costs.
| Redundancy | Price |
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| LRS | $-/GB/month |
| ZRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GZRS | $-/GB/month |
Long-term retention
Many applications have regulatory, compliance, or other business purposes that require you to retain database backups for longer periods of time. By using the long-term retention (LTR) feature, you can store full backups for up to 10 years. You can then restore any backup as a new database. Learn more about long-term retention. The pricing listed below does not include certain additional components that may incur charges based on your specific configuration, such as Total Backups and Average database size during the retention period (GB). Please visit the Pricing calculator for the estimate.
| Redundancy | Price |
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| LRS | $-/GB/month |
| ZRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GRS | $-/GB/month |
| RA-GZRS | $-/GB/month |
Provisioned compute
The SQL Database provisioned compute tier provides a fixed amount of compute resource for a fixed price billed hourly. It optimizes price-performance for single databases and elastic pools with more regular usage that cannot afford any delay in compute warm-up after idle usage periods. For details, see the FAQ section and documentation.
General purpose
Ideal for most business workloads, offering balanced and scalable compute and storage options.
Standard-series (Gen 5)
Standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPUs are based on Intel E5-2673 v4 (Broadwell) 2.3 GHz, Intel SP8160 (Skylake), Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL 2.5 GHz (Cascade Lake) and Intel(R) Xeon Scalable 2.8 GHz processor (Ice Lake) processors. In the standard-series (Gen 5), 1 vCore = 1 hyper thread. The standard-series (Gen 5) logical CPU is great for most relational database servers.
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