specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: microsoft-azure-private-link
providerId: microsoft-azure-private-link
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=productName eq 'Virtual Network Private Link'
docs: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/private-link/
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-17'
tags:
  - Pricing
  - Metered
  - Networking
description: >-
  Azure Private Link is sold as metered consumption, not as tiers. There is no free tier, no plan to
  choose and no per-call API charge — you are billed for the hours a private endpoint exists and for the
  data that flows through it, at graduated per-GB rates. The management API itself (management.azure.com)
  is free; what costs money is the resource it creates. Prices below were read on 2026-09-17 from the
  Azure Retail Prices API, which is Microsoft's own unauthenticated machine-readable price feed — the
  human pricing page renders its numbers in JavaScript and serves "$-" placeholders to a crawler.
  Prices shown are USD list for the Global meter region; the feed also carries US Gov and operator-cloud
  variants (attatlanta1, attdallas1, sgxsingapore1, perth, portland, microsoftrrezm1) at different rates.
pricing_model: metered-consumption
plan_count: 0
plan_count_note: >-
  Genuinely zero. Azure Private Link publishes no named plans, editions or tiers. Recording plan_count 0
  with the real meters is the honest shape; the previous version of this file carried a fabricated
  Free / Professional / Enterprise scaffold with invented request quotas that this pass removed.
free_tier: false
currency: USD
meter_region: Global
meters:
  - id: standard-private-endpoint
    name: Standard Private Endpoint
    sku: Standard
    type: Consumption
    metric: endpoint_hours
    unit_of_measure: 1 Hour
    price: 0.01
    currency: USD
    effective_start: '2020-02-01'
    description: Charged per private endpoint, per hour, for as long as the endpoint is provisioned.
  - id: standard-data-processed-ingress
    name: Standard Data Processed - Ingress
    sku: Standard
    type: Consumption
    metric: data_processed_gb
    unit_of_measure: 1 GB
    effective_start: '2021-11-01'
    graduated: true
    tiers:
      - tier_minimum_units: 0
        price: 0.01
        currency: USD
        band: 0-1 PB
      - tier_minimum_units: 1000000
        price: 0.006
        currency: USD
        band: 1-5 PB
      - tier_minimum_units: 5000000
        price: 0.004
        currency: USD
        band: 5+ PB
    description: >-
      Inbound data processed through the private endpoint. Direction is judged from the traffic, not the
      caller — reading from a storage account through a private endpoint bills as Inbound Data Processed.
  - id: standard-data-processed-egress
    name: Standard Data Processed - Egress
    sku: Standard
    type: Consumption
    metric: data_processed_gb
    unit_of_measure: 1 GB
    effective_start: '2021-11-01'
    graduated: true
    tiers:
      - tier_minimum_units: 0
        price: 0.01
        currency: USD
        band: 0-1 PB
      - tier_minimum_units: 1000000
        price: 0.006
        currency: USD
        band: 1-5 PB
      - tier_minimum_units: 5000000
        price: 0.004
        currency: USD
        band: 5+ PB
    description: Outbound data processed through the private endpoint, graduated on monthly volume.
  - id: standard-service-endpoint-virtual-network
    name: Standard Service Endpoint Virtual Network
    sku: Standard Service Endpoint
    type: Consumption
    metric: vnet_hours
    unit_of_measure: 1 Hour
    price: 0.1
    currency: USD
    effective_start: '2026-04-01'
    description: >-
      Standard service endpoint, charged per virtual network per hour. New meter effective 2026-04-01;
      service endpoints were previously free.
free:
  - item: Private Link service
    price: 0.00
    note: >-
      Publishing your own service behind Private Link carries no charge. Microsoft bills the consumer's
      private endpoint, not the producer's private link service. Confirmed on the pricing page
      ("No charge for private link service") and by the absence of any private link service meter in the
      Retail Prices feed.
  - item: Azure Resource Manager control plane
    price: 0.00
    note: >-
      management.azure.com management calls are not metered. Consumption is throttled rather than billed;
      see rate-limits/microsoft-azure-private-link-rate-limits.yml.
notes:
  - >-
    Data transfer charges are separate and additive. The pricing page states the Private Link data
    processed rate is a premium on top of ordinary Azure data transfer pricing.
  - >-
    Enterprise Agreement, CSP and reservation discounts are not represented in the Retail Prices feed.
    These are list prices.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com