How match costs Analysis Services per month for D1?

I see a price of $98/day for the D1 tier on the Analysis Services creation page.
However, the pricing calculator shows $98/month.

Which one is correct? What would the actual monthly cost be for a D1 instance?

  1. Suchitra Suregaunkar 14,595 Reputation points • Microsoft External Staff • Moderator

    Hello Bohdan Nagirnyi O365

    This kind of mismatch usually comes down to how the price is being presented (per-day vs per-month) and what the pricing UI is assuming.

    Based on the provided Azure Analysis Services documentation, the key point is that Azure Analysis Services pricing depends on multiple factors, including:

    • Region
    • Tier/plan (for example, Developer D1)
    • Pause/resume behavior
    • Query replicas (query replicas are billed at the same rate as the server in Standard plans)

    Please use the Azure Analysis Services Pricing calculator to determine typical pricing for your region and plan.

    From the documentation we have here, we can’t definitively confirm whether the portal’s $98/day value and the pricing calculator’s $98/month value are both accurate for the same assumptions because the provided docs don’t include the exact D1 numbers or the calculation logic behind those UI fields.

    In general, a monthly figure should be consistent with the daily figure (e.g., $98/day would typically imply a much higher monthly cost if multiplied across all days), but we don’t have enough detail in the provided materials to validate what the calculator is doing (for example, whether it assumes pause/resume, or whether “month” is being represented differently).

    What to do to get the actual monthly cost for D1.

    1. Open the Azure Analysis Services Pricing calculator from the doc:
      1. Configure:
        • Your region
          • The Developer tier plan (D1)
            • Any pause/resume settings (the doc explicitly calls this out as a pricing factor)

    That calculator is specifically called out as the right tool to determine typical pricing for a single-server instance in a single region.

    Follow-up questions:

    1. What region are you selecting for the D1 instance?
    2. Are you planning to use pause/resume (and if so, what schedule/assumption)?
    3. Are both the portal creation page and the pricing calculator showing numbers for the same tier/plan and the same region?
    4. In the calculator, is there any setting related to billing period assumptions (like partial-month estimates) or replicas?

    Thanks,
    Suchitra.

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  1. TP 157.6K Reputation points • Volunteer Moderator

    Hi,

    What you are seeing is bug in the Analysis Services Marketplace create offer/wizard.

    Azure Analysis Services D1 is priced at $0.132/hour. If it is active constantly during a 31 day month it would be $98.21 for compute. Below screenshot is from running D1 instance:

    👁 User's image

    Below is screenshot excerpt from Analysis Services pricing page:

    👁 User's image

    Below screenshot shows actual cost ($0.13) of running the above instance for one hour:

    👁 User's image

    Please note you may pause your Analysis Services instance to stop accruing compute charges. Please scroll to bottom of pricing page and read FAQs.

    Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

    Thanks.

    -TP

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  2. AI answer

    The D1 value shown as $98/day is almost certainly a UI/formatting/interpretation issue. Azure Analysis Services pricing is based on hourly rates, and the Azure Pricing Calculator rolls that up to a monthly estimate based on the number of hours you specify.

    For a D1 server:

    • Billing is per hour (or fraction) while the server is running.
    • The Azure Pricing Calculator is the authoritative way to estimate the monthly cost. If it shows $98/month for D1 with 730 hours (typical month), that is the correct monthly estimate for a continuously running D1 instance in the selected region.

    To verify and get the exact number for the region:

    1. Open the Azure Analysis Services Pricing calculator.
    2. Select the correct region and tier/plan (D1).
    3. Set hours to 730 (or your expected runtime per month).
    4. Use the resulting total as the monthly cost estimate.

    If the portal still shows $98/day, multiply that by 30 to see that it would imply an unrealistically high monthly cost compared to the calculator and published pricing. In such a conflict, rely on the calculator and the underlying hourly rate.

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