About
Azure App Service is Microsoft’s fully managed platform as a service for building, deploying, and scaling web apps and APIs in the cloud. It is designed to help teams modernize applications without managing underlying servers, storage, networking, or routine platform maintenance.
The service supports a broad range of application scenarios, including web applications, API backends, and containerized workloads. It also integrates with Azure security, identity, and deployment tooling to support enterprise application development and operations.
- Build and run web apps and APIs on a managed PaaS platform
- Support for popular languages and frameworks including .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, and PHP
- Automatic scaling, high availability, and deployment automation
- Built-in authentication, authorization, and security features
- Options for shared, dedicated, and isolated hosting models
Free Tier Value
The page explicitly describes the Free plan as intended for trials, experimentation, and learning, with no SLA and metered per app. It also gives concrete free quotas: shared compute with 60 CPU minutes/day, 1 GB RAM, and 1 GB storage, but it does not provide enough pricing data for the next paid tier to compute a conservative monthly dollar value. Because this is a capped free tier rather than always-free unbounded, the free_tier_value_usd_per_month is set to null per the instructions.
What's included in the free tier
- Free plan for trials, experimentation, and learning the service.
- No SLA included for free and shared plans.
- Metered on a per-app basis.
- Shared compute with 60 CPU minutes per day.
- 1 GB RAM included.
- 1 GB storage included.
See Azure App Service pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Shared
- CPU minutes per day
- 240
- RAM
- 1 GB
- storage
- 1 GB
- Intended for trials, experimentation, and learning the service
- No SLA
- Metered on a per-app basis
- Shared compute
Basic
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 1.75 GB
- storage
- 10 GB
- Designed for low-traffic workloads
- No advanced auto-scale and traffic management features
- Pricing based on size and number of instances
Premium v3
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 4 GB
- storage
- 250 GB
- Multi-tenant managed platform as a service
- High performance, reliability, and scalability
- Automatic scaling for high-volume production
- Memory-optimized options available
Premium v4
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 4 GB
- storage
- 250 GB
- High-performance, reliable, and scalable multi-tenant managed service
- Runs on latest Azure platforms
- Memory-optimized tiers for memory-intensive workloads
Pricing extracted from Azure App Service's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
