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 band-ceiling rate ranges from about 0.8% to 1.6% of ACR. A bigger Azure estate pushes more billing data through our ingest and modeling, 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, with three bands in each service level. Use the slider to see yours. Your price is fixed for each purchased Microsoft Marketplace term and never floats with your monthly Azure bill. If measured ACR exceeds your purchased band, CloudMonitor alerts our team for manual review. We contact you if a subscription-scope or plan change is appropriate; nothing changes automatically. See the question on Azure spend changing during the year. Organizations with ACR over $3M and up to $50M 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?
There is no universal break-even point. It depends on your estate size, optimization stage, infrastructure mix, and the work your team still handles manually. Use the savings calculator to compare its conservative range with the license fee shown for your annual Azure consumption band. Treat that result as an estimate until eligibility and usage are measured from your billing data.
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 ACR over $3M and up to $50M 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 over $3M and up to $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 and the first Professional band are annual-only. Monthly billing starts with the $6,000 annual Professional plan at $600 a month and is available on every higher published band. Where monthly billing is available, ten monthly payments equal the annual price. 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. If measured ACR exceeds your purchased band, CloudMonitor alerts our team and we review it manually. We contact you if a subscription-scope or plan change is appropriate. Every plan change is handled manually and needs your approval before it takes effect.
What happens if our Azure spend changes during the year?
Your price is fixed for each purchased Microsoft Marketplace term and never floats with your monthly Azure bill. Your purchased plan has an ACR ceiling, and we measure ACR from the billing scopes you connect rather than asking you to estimate it.
CloudMonitor checks measured ACR against the ceiling of your purchased band. If it goes over, CloudMonitor alerts our team. A person reviews the connected billing data and checks whether a subscription-scope or plan change is appropriate.
We contact you before taking any action, and every change is handled manually. Nothing changes or is charged automatically. Direct Microsoft Marketplace plan changes require your explicit approval; if you bought through a CSP or MSP partner, plan changes go through that partner.
CloudMonitor checks measured ACR against the ceiling of your purchased band. If it goes over, CloudMonitor alerts our team. A person reviews the connected billing data and checks whether a subscription-scope or plan change is appropriate.
We contact you before taking any action, and every change is handled manually. Nothing changes or is charged automatically. Direct Microsoft Marketplace plan changes require your explicit approval; if you bought through a CSP or MSP partner, plan changes go through that partner.
How are partner pricing and margins set?
Partner pricing is quote-based and tied to the Azure consumption covered by each customer license, not to seat count. We agree the wholesale price and billing route before the first deal. You set the price of your packaged service, subject to the Marketplace or reseller terms for that transaction.
Does CloudMonitor offer nonprofit pricing?
Registered nonprofits and NGOs can request 50% off CloudMonitor's published plans. CloudMonitor pricing is separate from Microsoft's Azure Sponsorship grant; Microsoft controls grant eligibility and the remaining credit. Review the program and ask us to confirm pricing.
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.