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App Onboard Prepare — Per-Service Pricing Patterns

Filter strings, meter names, and formulas per Azure service. For methodology and troubleshooting, see pricing-guide.md.

Container Apps

No armSkuName. Filter: serviceName eq 'Azure Container Apps' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and priceType eq 'Consumption' and isPrimaryMeterRegion eq true

Key meters: Standard vCPU Active Usage (1 Second), Standard Memory Active Usage (1 GiB Second), Standard Requests (1M).

Monthly (Consumption, 1 vCPU, 2 GiB, 8h active/day): (vCPU_active_rate × 3600 × 8 × 30) + (memory_active_rate × 2 × 3600 × 8 × 30)

Free grant: 180K vCPU-sec + 360K GiB-sec + 2M requests/sub/month. Scale-to-zero = $0 idle. When min_replicas >= 1: add idle cost from idle meters.

Container Registry (ACR)

Empty armSkuName — ⛔ do NOT filter by sku (returns []). Filter: serviceName eq 'Container Registry' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and priceType eq 'Consumption', then match meterName.

⛔ 1/Day → × 30, NOT × 730. The other ACR meters (Task vCPU Duration = 1 Second build compute, Data Stored = 1 GB/Month) are usage-based — exclude from the fixed monthly unless the app builds heavily. ACR Basic fixed cost ≈ $5/mo.

App Service

MCP call: pricing_get --service "Azure App Service" --region "{region}"

Meter-to-SKU mapping:

Gotcha: armSkuName empty for Basic/Standard. Match on meterName.

Monthly: retailPrice × 730

Azure SQL Database

DTU model — no armSkuName. Filter by productName + meterName.

Monthly (DTU): retailPrice × 30

vCore model: productName filters — Serverless: 'SQL Database General Purpose - Serverless - Compute Gen5'. Hyperscale: 'SQL Database Single/Elastic Pool Hyperscale'. Monthly: retailPrice × 730.

Cosmos DB

Filter: serviceName eq 'Azure Cosmos DB' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and priceType eq 'Consumption' and isPrimaryMeterRegion eq true

⚠️ Provisioned 100 RU/s gotcha: The isPrimaryMeterRegion eq true entry has retailPrice: 0 (free-tier placeholder). The real price (~$0.008/hr in eastus) has isPrimaryMeterRegion: false. Drop isPrimaryMeterRegion from the filter or match on retailPrice > 0.

Storage: meterName eq 'Data Stored' with productName eq 'Azure Cosmos DB' (1 GB/Month). Note: this meter has isPrimaryMeterRegion: false — drop that filter or query without it.

Free tier: 1,000 RU/s + 25 GB per account (one per subscription).

Storage

No armSkuName. Filter by meterName + productName.

Filter (Hot LRS Blob):

serviceName eq 'Storage' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and meterName eq 'Hot LRS Data Stored' and productName eq 'Blob Storage'

Meter-to-SKU mapping:

Monthly: retailPrice × estimatedGB

Key Vault

Filter:

serviceName eq 'Key Vault' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and priceType eq 'Consumption'

Key meters:

Monthly (Standard): retailPrice × (estimatedOps / 10000). Negligible for typical AppOnboard apps.

Service Bus

Filter:

serviceName eq 'Service Bus' and armRegionName eq '{region}'

⚠️ Do NOT add isPrimaryMeterRegion eq true — all Service Bus meters have isPrimaryMeterRegion: false. Adding that filter returns zero useful results.

Key meters:

Monthly (Standard): baseUnitRate × 730 + operations beyond free tier. Standard tiered: first 13M free.

Gotcha: Standard Base Unit has two entries — hourly and monthly. Use hourly × 730.

Redis Cache

armSkuName IS populated — pricing_get --sku works.

MCP call: pricing_get --service "Redis Cache" --sku "{armSkuName}" --region "{region}"

armSkuName pattern: Azure_Redis_Cache_{Tier}_{Size}_Cache (e.g., Azure_Redis_Cache_Basic_C0_Cache, Azure_Redis_Cache_Standard_C1_Cache). Query the MCP tool for exact pricing.

Gotcha: Basic tier entries have isPrimaryMeterRegion: false. The standard filter strips them out. Query by armSkuName directly or omit isPrimaryMeterRegion and match on productName eq 'Azure Redis Cache Basic'.

Monthly: retailPrice × 730

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

armSkuName IS populated — pricing_get --sku works. ⛔ skuName is CASE-SENSITIVE: B1MS works, B1ms returns 0 results.

MCP call: pricing_get --service "Azure Database for PostgreSQL" --sku "{armSkuName}" --region "{region}"

armSkuName values: ⛔ Case-sensitive. Small Burstable uses short names (B1MS, B2S); larger Burstable + GP/MO use Standard_ prefix.

Storage: Query separately — meterName eq 'Storage Data Stored' and productName containing Flexible Server Storage. Unit: 1 GiB/Month. Default 32 GiB included at ~$0.115/GiB/mo.

Monthly (compute): retailPrice × 730 Monthly (storage): storageRate × storageSizeGB Total: compute + storage (e.g., B1ms + 32 GiB ≈ $12.41 + $3.68 = ~$16.09)

Functions

Consumption plan: Not in API. Free: 1M executions + 400K GB-seconds/month.

Flex/Premium — filter: serviceName eq 'Functions' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and priceType eq 'Consumption' and isPrimaryMeterRegion eq true

• Flex: On Demand Execution Time (1 GB Second), On Demand Total Executions (10), Always Ready Baseline
• Premium: Premium vCPU Duration (1 Hour), Premium Memory Duration (1 GiB Hour). Monthly: vCPU_rate × 730 + memory_rate × GiB × 730

Static Web Apps

Not in the Retail Prices API. Fixed pricing — query azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/app-service/static:

• Free tier: 100 GB bandwidth, 2 custom domains
• Standard tier: Flat monthly per app, unlimited bandwidth, 5 custom domains

Log Analytics / Application Insights

Filter:

serviceName eq 'Azure Monitor' and armRegionName eq '{region}' and priceType eq 'Consumption' and isPrimaryMeterRegion eq true

Key meters:

• Platform Logs Data Processed (unit: 1 GB)
• Log Analytics ingestion — match meterName containing Data Ingestion

Free grant: First 5 GB/month of Log Analytics data ingestion.

Monthly: retailPrice × estimatedGB (subtract 5 GB free grant).