Pricing
Plans, licensing, and what each tier includes.
How is pricing calculated?
Fixed annual license tied to your Azure Consumption Revenue (ACR), not per seat and never a share of what you save. The rate climbs with your size: a little under 1% of ACR at the entry, and up to about 1.6% at the largest published band. A bigger Azure estate needs a bigger Microsoft Fabric capacity behind it, takes more support, and includes more of the platform. Published prices run from $500 up to $60K ACR through to $48,000 up to $3M, in fourteen bands about a third apart — so a small change in your Azure spend never doubles your bill. Use the slider to see yours. Your price is fixed for the term and never moves with your monthly Azure bill. If your consumption settles into a different band we will talk to you about changing plans — see the question on Azure spend changing during the year. Organizations with $3M–$50M ACR request a Microsoft Marketplace private offer. See the pricing page for the live price slider and full inclusions.
Is there a minimum Azure spend to get value from CloudMonitor?
For the cost-optimization side, CloudMonitor is aimed at teams spending more than about $10,000 a month on Azure. That's the point where reservation coverage, right-sizing, and idle-resource savings comfortably outrun the license fee. Below it, the recommendation engine still runs, but the recoverable dollars get thinner. The savings calculator shows where your numbers land. The governance and visibility side helps any size customer: cost allocation and chargeback, budgets and forecasts, anomaly alerts, tagging coverage, and board-ready reporting all deliver value whether you spend $2,000 a month or $2 million.
How do you decide which plan we need?
Plans map directly to your annual Azure consumption (ACR). Use the price slider to enter your ACR: it selects the smallest published band that covers your footprint, from $500 up to $60K ACR through to $48,000 up to $3M. Service levels sit on top of those bands — Starter up to $200K ACR, Professional up to $800K, Enterprise up to $3M. Organizations with $3M–$50M ACR request a Microsoft Marketplace private offer. Fixed annual price that does not move with your monthly Azure bill.
What currency is the pricing in?
All prices are in USD and the ACR brackets are measured in USD. If your Azure invoices are in another currency, we convert your consumption to USD to work out which plan you fall into.
Can we buy through Azure Marketplace?
Yes — buy CloudMonitor through Microsoft Marketplace. The public SaaS offer covers the published ACR price bands. Organizations managing $3M–$50M in annual Azure spend request a Microsoft Marketplace private offer. The license is eligible for MACC drawdown where applicable.
How is CloudMonitor billed?
Through the Azure Marketplace against your existing EA / MCA agreement, so the license appears on your normal Azure invoice rather than a separate vendor bill. Starter bands are sold on an annual term. Professional and Enterprise can be bought annually or on a rolling monthly term, where a month costs a tenth of the annual price — so committing to the year saves you two months. See the pricing page for the bands, and the MACC question below for how the cost can decrement your Azure consumption commitment.
Can we use our Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) to pay for CloudMonitor?
Yes. CloudMonitor is a transactable, co-sell-ready Azure Marketplace offer, so customers with a MACC can put the CloudMonitor license against that commitment. The cost decrements your MACC instead of coming out of a separate software budget — and it helps you draw down toward your commitment target faster, which is particularly useful in the back half of a commitment year when a shortfall would otherwise lead to a true-up charge. See Microsoft's MACC enrollment overview for the eligibility rules.
Can we switch plans?
Yes — upgrade or downgrade at any time, and annual contracts get prorated on upgrade. We may also propose a change if your measured consumption sits in a different band for three consecutive monthly reviews — see what happens if your Azure spend changes during the year. Either way, a plan change needs your approval before it takes effect.
What happens if our Azure spend changes during the year?
Your price is fixed for the term and never moves with your monthly Azure bill. It is matched to the ACR band your consumption actually sits in, and we measure that from the billing scopes you connect rather than asking you to estimate it.
We review it monthly against your trailing three months of consumption, annualized. If that figure sits in a different band for three consecutive reviews, we get in touch and move you to the matching plan from your next billing cycle. A one-off migration, a project spike, or a seasonal peak will not move you — only a sustained shift does.
The review runs both ways. If your consumption falls and stays lower, your price comes down; we do not hold you on a plan you have grown out of in the other direction. Microsoft Marketplace also requires your explicit approval before any plan change takes effect, so nothing happens without a conversation and your agreement. If you bought through a CSP or MSP partner, plan changes go through that partner.
We review it monthly against your trailing three months of consumption, annualized. If that figure sits in a different band for three consecutive reviews, we get in touch and move you to the matching plan from your next billing cycle. A one-off migration, a project spike, or a seasonal peak will not move you — only a sustained shift does.
The review runs both ways. If your consumption falls and stays lower, your price comes down; we do not hold you on a plan you have grown out of in the other direction. Microsoft Marketplace also requires your explicit approval before any plan change takes effect, so nothing happens without a conversation and your agreement. If you bought through a CSP or MSP partner, plan changes go through that partner.
How do CSP / MSP partners price?
Partners get 25%+ off each CloudMonitor license and set their own retail pricing on top. Apply via the Contact Us tier for the partner price book.
Is there a discount for not-for-profits or Microsoft TSI grant holders?
Yes — registered not-for-profits, NGOs and funded startups get 50% off any CloudMonitor plan, with no Azure spend cap. The discount stacks on the Azure grant you already get from Microsoft Tech for Social Impact (TSI), so the TSI grant goes further on the same Azure budget. Apply on the NFP discount program page with proof of registration or your latest funding round.
How does the price compare to other Azure cost tools?
CloudMonitor charges a fixed annual license tied to your Azure consumption bracket — a figure you know before you buy, not a per-seat fee and not a share of your savings. See the side-by-side comparison against other Azure cost tools for how that lines up against Azure Cost Management, Apptio Cloudability, CloudZero, Turbo360, and the Microsoft FinOps Toolkit. For not-for-profit pricing, see the NFP discount program.
Is CloudMonitor a good fit for our CFO and finance team?
Yes — the CFO view of CloudMonitor walks through the finance-team workflows: chargeback, accruals, unit economics, and the executive dashboard.
How do I know how to find my ACR?
Yes — your ACR is the combined ACAT across every billing profile CloudMonitor will cover. Add the ACAT for each billing profile in scope; that total is the Azure Consumption Revenue (ACR) used to select your price band. You only need an estimate to get started — once your cost exports are connected we measure it directly, so you do not have to get the number exactly right up front.