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- Free allowance
- 750 hours each of B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 burstable VMs free every month for the first 12 months, which is one always-on machine of each family
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- request-rate750 hours a month each on B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2, for the first 12 months only
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | 750 hours each of B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 burstable VMs free every month for the first 12 months, which is one always-on machine of each family unit hours; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 750 hours a month each on B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2, for the first 12 months only source
- retention-clamped a Stopped VM still bills its allocated cores; only a Deallocated VM stops the compute charge source
not stated |
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| Identity | card a card and a phone number: 'All you need is a phone number, a credit card or a debit card (non-prepaid), and a Microsoft account or a GitHub account.', with a temporary authorisation of one dollar that may be placed on the card and is reversed after verification. 'Only credit cards are accepted in Hong Kong and Brazil.' Country limit: 'If your country is not listed, the offer is not available in your region.' |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | documented the Windows virtual machines pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the 750-hour monthly allowance per burstable family for 12 months. Because the page is the Windows one, the allowance includes the licence, which the Linux page's rows do not |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- request-rate 750 hours / month
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Evidence 6
More fields 7
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": 2,"ram": 8,"disk": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "B2ts v2: 2 vCPU, 8 GiB burstable, with the Windows licence included in the free hours"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "750 hours a month is 730 hours of always-on use, so one machine of each family fits; the 12-month clock resets nothing"} |
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| free tier kind | trial |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null} |
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| net | {"out": true,"in": true,"ports": "any","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"allowance": null} |
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Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field
Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Azure's free compute is a monthly vCPU-second allowance, and three records carried the credit instead