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-cdn
providerId: microsoft-azure-cdn
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cdn/
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-17'
tags:
  - Pricing
  - Content Delivery
  - Usage Based
description: >-
  Published Azure CDN pricing, read from the Microsoft pricing page on 2026-09-17. This REPLACES the
  2026-05-04 API Evangelist scaffold, which invented Free / Professional / Enterprise tiers with
  request quotas. Azure CDN has no request-quota tiers at all: it is metered on outbound data transfer
  per geographic zone with volume bands, and the MANAGEMENT API (Microsoft.Cdn, the contract this repo
  catalogues) is not separately billed — ARM management calls are free and governed by throttling
  rather than price. See rate-limits/microsoft-azure-cdn-rate-limits.yml.
plan_count: 3
billing_model: usage-based (metered outbound data transfer, per zone, per volume band)
currency: USD
api_billed_separately: false
retirement_notice: >-
  The pricing page itself carries the retirement notice: "Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic)
  is in the process of retiring. As of October 1, 2025, no new instances will be created. On
  September 30, 2027, it will be retired."
zones:
  note: Zone 1-5 are geographic bands defined in the pricing page FAQ; TB = 1,000 GB for Microsoft (classic) S3.
plans:
  - id: microsoft-azure-cdn-standard-microsoft-classic
    name: Azure Content Delivery Network from Microsoft (classic) — Standard (S3)
    type: usage
    description: >-
      Feature-inclusive standard CDN bundle. Billed on outbound data transfer, tiered by monthly volume
      and by geographic zone.
    entries:
      - label: Outbound data transfer — first 10 TB/month
        name: egress_band_1
        type: metered
        metric: gb_transferred
        timeFrame: month
        unit: 1
        prices:
          zone_1: '0.081'
          zone_2: '0.129'
          zone_3: '0.233'
          zone_4: '0.13'
          zone_5: '0.158'
        currency: USD
        per: GB
      - label: Outbound data transfer — next 40 TB (10-50 TB)/month
        name: egress_band_2
        type: metered
        metric: gb_transferred
        timeFrame: month
        prices:
          zone_1: '0.075'
          zone_2: '0.121'
          zone_3: '0.186'
          zone_4: '0.126'
          zone_5: '0.121'
        currency: USD
        per: GB
      - label: Outbound data transfer — next 100 TB (50-150 TB)/month
        name: egress_band_3
        type: metered
        metric: gb_transferred
        timeFrame: month
        prices:
          zone_1: '0.056'
          zone_2: '0.112'
          zone_3: '0.168'
          zone_4: '0.112'
          zone_5: '0.102'
        currency: USD
        per: GB
      - label: Outbound data transfer — next 350 TB (150-500 TB)/month
        name: egress_band_4
        type: metered
        metric: gb_transferred
        timeFrame: month
        prices:
          zone_1: '0.037'
          zone_2: '0.093'
          zone_3: '0.149'
          zone_4: '0.093'
          zone_5: '0.093'
        currency: USD
        per: GB
      - label: Outbound data transfer — next 500 TB (500-1,000 TB)/month
        name: egress_band_5
        type: metered
        metric: gb_transferred
        timeFrame: month
        prices:
          zone_1: '0.028'
          zone_2: '0.075'
          zone_3: '0.13'
          zone_4: '0.088'
          zone_5: contact-us
        currency: USD
        per: GB
      - label: Outbound data transfer — over 1,000 TB/month
        name: egress_band_6
        type: metered
        metric: gb_transferred
        timeFrame: month
        prices:
          zone_1: contact-us
          zone_2: contact-us
          zone_3: contact-us
          zone_4: contact-us
          zone_5: contact-us
    elements:
      - name: Global edge delivery
      - name: Azure CDN REST API (Microsoft.Cdn) — no additional charge
      - name: Five Routing Rules Engine rules included, including the global rule
  - id: microsoft-azure-cdn-standard-rules-engine
    name: Azure Standard CDN from Microsoft (classic) — Routing Rules Engine add-on
    type: usage
    description: Additional Routing Rules Engine rules beyond the five included free rules.
    entries:
      - label: Custom rules per month
        name: rules_per_month
        type: metered
        metric: rules
        timeFrame: month
        price: '1'
        currency: USD
        note: '$1 per rule per month, identical across Zone 1-5.'
      - label: Requests processed
        name: rule_requests
        type: metered
        metric: requests
        unit: 1000000
        price: '0.6'
        currency: USD
        note: '$0.60 per million requests processed, identical across Zone 1-5.'
  - id: microsoft-azure-cdn-waf
    name: Azure Standard CDN from Microsoft (classic) — WAF
    type: usage
    description: >-
      Web Application Firewall, charged separately based on WAF policy and rules configuration. Pricing
      lives on the Azure WAF pricing page ("Global" tab) rather than the CDN page, so no figures are
      copied here.
    source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/web-application-firewall/
related_products:
  - name: Content Delivery Network Premium
    note: >-
      The pricing page also lists a Premium CDN tier with rules engine and real-time analytics. Its
      per-GB bands were not captured because the Premium tier is delivered by a partner network rather
      than the Microsoft.Cdn Standard_Microsoft SKU this repo's contract centres on; recorded as a known
      gap rather than filled in.
  - name: Azure Front Door
    url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/frontdoor/
    note: The successor product Microsoft directs migrating customers to.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com