# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/service-bus/
sources:
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/service-bus/
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T120546
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: per-call
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
  managed_tier: Basic
published: true
note: Most unit prices render as "$-" (region/currency-dependent values not present in text); only Geo-Replication
  data transfer rates and the incidental "less than $0.05 per month" keep-alive figure are numeric. A
  $200 free credit trial is also mentioned.
plan_count: 8
currency: USD
plans:
- name: Premium Geo-Replication Zone 1 (North America and Europe)
  price_text: $0.09 /GB
  price: 0.09
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: GB replicated
- name: Premium Geo-Replication Zone 2 (Asia, Oceania, Middle East, and Africa)
  price_text: $0.12 /GB
  price: 0.12
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: GB replicated
- name: Premium Geo-Replication Zone 3 (South America)
  price_text: $0.23 /GB
  price: 0.23
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: GB replicated
- name: Basic Operations
  price_text: $- per million operations
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: million operations
- name: Standard Base charge
  price_text: $- /hour
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour
  included_quota: First 13M ops/month Included; 1,000 brokered connections
  overage: $- per million operations
- name: Premium Hourly
  price_text: $- /hour
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: hour per Messaging Unit
  included_quota: Operations included up to purchased capacity; brokered connections not charged
- name: Hybrid Connection
  price_text: $- per listener
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: listener
  included_quota: includes 5 GB of data/month
  overage: $- /GB
- name: WCF Relay
  price_text: $- for every 100 relay hours
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: 100 relay hours
  overage: $- for every 10,000 messages
rate_limit_statements:
- 1,000 brokered connections are included with the standard messaging tier (via the base charge) and can
  be shared across all queues, topics, and subscriptions within the associated Azure subscription.
- Each premium namespace can have 1, 2, or 4 messaging units
- Note that 100 brokered connections are allowed at no charge in a basic namespace (this is also the maximum
  number of brokered connections allowed for the Azure subscription).