specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: microsoft-azure-cache-for-redis
providerId: microsoft-azure-cache-for-redis
created: '2026-05-04'
generated: '2026-09-17'
modified: '2026-09-17'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=serviceName eq 'Redis Cache' and
  armRegionName eq 'eastus' — the Azure Retail Prices API, anonymous, HTTP 200, 193 items
  returned on 2026-09-17. Tier descriptions, memory ranges and availability figures read from
  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cache/ (HTTP 200, same date).
tags:
- Pricing
- Plans
- Cache
description: >-
  Published tiers for Azure Cache for Redis, priced per cache instance per hour. There is no
  request quota and no free tier: you pay for a provisioned cache by SKU size, not per API call.
  The management REST API in openapi/ is itself free to call — it is billed only through the
  Azure Resource Manager platform, which does not charge per request.
currency: USD
region_priced: eastus
billing:
  unit: 1 Hour
  model: provisioned instance, billed hourly, pro-rated
  commitment_options: >-
    Reserved capacity (1-year and 3-year) is offered on Enterprise, Enterprise Flash and Azure
    Managed Redis SKUs; those Reservation rows are present in the same API response and are not
    itemised here.
  api_call_charges: none
retirement_notice: >-
  Every tier below is retiring. Enterprise and Enterprise Flash are migrated to Azure Managed
  Redis on 2027-03-31; Basic, Standard and Premium are turned off on 2028-09-30. See
  lifecycle/microsoft-azure-cache-for-redis-lifecycle.yml. Azure Managed Redis SKUs are listed
  here for the migration path only — they are a different product and a different resource
  provider.
plan_count: 5
plans:
- id: basic
  name: Basic
  type: paid
  description: Single node, simplified cache ideal for development and testing.
  memory: 250 MB - 53 GB
  sku_family: C (C0-C6)
  sku_count: 7
  price_min: 0.022
  price_max: 0.84
  price_unit: USD per hour
  sla: none
  replication: false
  private_link: true
- id: standard
  name: Standard
  type: paid
  description: Production-ready cache with primary/replica duplication.
  memory: 250 MB - 53 GB
  sku_family: C (C0-C6)
  sku_count: 7
  price_min: 0.0275
  price_max: 2.1
  price_unit: USD per hour
  sla: 99.9%
  replication: true
  private_link: true
- id: premium
  name: Premium
  type: paid
  description: >-
    Clustering, data persistence, VNet injection and geo-replication — the features large
    enterprises need.
  memory: 6 GB - 120 GB
  sku_family: P (P1-P5)
  sku_count: 5
  price_min: 0.277
  price_max: 10.05
  price_unit: USD per hour
  sla: up to 99.9%
  replication: true
  private_link: true
- id: enterprise
  name: Enterprise
  type: paid
  description: >-
    Everything in Premium plus Redis modules (RedisBloom, RedisJSON, RediSearch,
    RedisTimeSeries) and active geo-replication.
  memory: 1,024 MB - 400 GB
  sku_family: E (E1-E400)
  sku_count: 9
  price_min: 0.0156
  price_max: 15.076
  price_unit: USD per hour
  sla: up to 99.999%
  replication: true
  private_link: true
  retires: '2027-03-31'
- id: enterprise-flash
  name: Enterprise Flash
  type: paid
  description: >-
    Enterprise reliability on non-volatile storage, for very large caches at lower cost per GB.
  memory: 384 GB - 1.5 TB
  sku_family: F (F300-F1500)
  sku_count: 3
  price_min: 2.006
  price_max: 8.023
  price_unit: USD per hour
  sla: up to 99.999%
  replication: true
  private_link: true
  retires: '2027-03-31'
other_skus_in_price_feed:
- name: Azure Redis Cache Isolated
  sku_count: 1
  price: 20.26
  note: I100; not offered on the public pricing page.
- name: Azure Managed Redis - Balanced
  sku_count: 14
  price_min: 0.016
  price_max: 19.968
  note: Successor product (different resource provider); listed for the migration path.
- name: Azure Managed Redis - Memory Optimized
  sku_count: 12
  price_min: 0.216
  price_max: 27.648
- name: Azure Managed Redis - Compute Optimized
  sku_count: 12
  price_min: 0.146
  price_max: 23.314
- name: Azure Managed Redis - Flash Optimized
  sku_count: 7
  price_min: 1.56
  price_max: 24.954
free_tier:
  exists: false
  note: >-
    No free Azure Cache for Redis tier. An Azure free account gives credit toward any service,
    not a free cache. The record's accessModel says "freemium" on that basis; the cache itself
    is paid from the first hour.
signup: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
pricing_page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cache/
calculator: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
x-canonical:
  generated: '2026-10-08'
  vocabulary: all/0-working/economics/plans-canonical.yml
  models:
  - metered
  units: []
  plans:
  - name: Basic
    access: paid
    model: metered
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []
  - name: Standard
    access: paid
    model: metered
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []
  - name: Premium
    access: paid
    model: metered
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []
  - name: Enterprise
    access: paid
    model: metered
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []
  - name: Enterprise Flash
    access: paid
    model: metered
    model_how: derived
    units: []
    periods: []