# 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/traffic-manager/
sources:
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/traffic-manager/
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'
published: false
note: No numeric price is published on the pricing page; Pricing table renders all values as "$-" (no
  numeric amounts loaded), so no published prices are visible; billing is stated as based on DNS queries
  plus monitored endpoints.
plan_count: 7
currency: USD
plans:
- name: First 1 billion DNS queries/month
  price_text: $- per million queries
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per million queries
- name: Over 1 billion DNS queries/month
  price_text: $- per million queries
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per million queries
- name: Basic health checks (Azure)
  price_text: $- per Azure endpoint/month
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per Azure endpoint
- name: Basic health checks (external)
  price_text: $- per external endpoint/month
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per external endpoint
- name: Nested endpoints
  price_text: $- per nested endpoint/month
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per nested endpoint
- name: Real User Measurements
  price_text: $- per million measurements
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per million measurements
- name: Traffic View data points processed
  price_text: $- per million data points processed
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: per million data points
rate_limit_statements:
- The caching duration is determined by the "TTL" parameter in the original DNS response. This parameter
  is configurable in Traffic Manager—the default is 300 seconds, and the minimum is 30 seconds.