Costs · Azure list prices on 18 October 2026

What DoctorDO costs to run, in your own subscription.

DoctorDO is free to use; you pay only for the Azure resources it runs on. Microsoft bills them to your subscription. At the size of the ContosoAI demo, 46,000 devices, at 41 sites in 16 countries and working remotely, that is about $316 a month.

Work out your own estate Read every assumption

The demo’s size, a month

$316.02

46,000 devices, daily reports, PostgreSQL D2ds_v5

Per device per month: $0.0069
The largest line, PostgreSQL compute: $144.54
Reports a month: 1.6 million

Estimate from Azure list prices on 18 October 2026, North Europe (the Static Web App in West Europe); your bill depends on your usage, agreements, and region. In US dollars; the calculator also shows pounds and euros.

Estimate

Your estate, your estimate.

Change the number of devices, how often they report, the database size, and the AI briefing. The sums are worked out in this page, from the prices it carries, and nothing you enter is sent anywhere.

Four estates, each with daily reports, the suggested database, and no AI briefing

The demo’s size, worked through. The choices below work once the page has loaded.

Devices that report

The ContosoAI demo has 46,000. Type any number up to 500,000; the slider runs to 150,000.

How often devices report

DailyHourly

The Intune remediation’s documented schedule. Each device sends one telemetry report a day, and an inventory weekly and when it changes.

PostgreSQL compute

The template’s four sizes. B1ms is its default; it suggests General Purpose for production.

AI briefing

Include a daily briefing from Azure OpenAI, in your own subscription (optional)

Currency

USDGBPEUR

GBP and EUR are the Retail Prices API’s own prices, which Microsoft converts from US dollars each month.

A month, 46,000 devices

$316.02

$0.0069 per device per month

The biggest costs

PostgreSQL flexible server46 %
Function Apps (ingest and processor)25 %
PostgreSQL storage and backup10 %

Estimate from Azure list prices on 18 October 2026, North Europe (the Static Web App in West Europe); your bill depends on your usage, agreements, and region. Price it in the Azure pricing calculator (opens in a new tab)

What each resource costs

Every resource one deployment creates, with the template’s defaults. Prices in US dollars, before tax.

Static Web App (the portal)$9.00
Standard, West Europe
A fixed charge per app. The first 100 GB of bandwidth a month in the subscription is included.
1 app
Ingest Function App$37.93
Flex Consumption, 2,048 MB
Time spent handling reports, billed at least one second each time an instance starts work, and executions. Free grant: 100,000 GB-s and 250,000 executions a month, shared with the processor.
1.6 million executions, 1.5 million GB-s
Processor Function App$39.80
Flex Consumption, 2,048 MB
Time for each report it takes off the queue and for the hourly Intune device index, and executions.
1.6 million executions, 1.6 million GB-s
Portal API Function App$0.00
Consumption (Y1), Windows
Executions and GB-seconds while administrators use the portal, after a free grant of 400,000 GB-s and 1 million executions a month.
20,000 calls, 5,000 GB-s
Service Bus namespace$9.81
Standard
A base charge per hour, which includes 13 million operations a month; 3 operations per report.
5 million operations
PostgreSQL flexible server$144.54
D2ds_v5 (General Purpose, 2 vCores, 8 GiB)
Compute per hour, running all month, whatever the load.
730 hours
PostgreSQL storage and backup$32.38
256 GiB Premium SSD, autogrow
Provisioned storage, which doubles when free space runs low and never shrinks; backup beyond the provisioned size.
167 GiB after 12 months of reports
Storage account (raw reports)$8.32
Standard LRS, Hot
One write per report; each report kept 30 days, then 7 days of soft delete.
1.6 million writes, 4.3 GB stored
Host storage (3 accounts)$3.76
Standard LRS, Hot
One account per Function App: its package, and the host’s leases and state while it runs.
750,000 operations
Azure Monitor alert rules$5.50
Log search and metric alerts
Per rule a month, by how often it runs: the failures that otherwise leave only a log line. Notifications past Azure Monitor’s free monthly allowance are billed on top.
7 log search rules, 1 metric rule
Log Analytics and Application Insights$24.98
Pay-as-you-go, 30-day retention
GB ingested after the first 5 GB a month: request and trace records for each report, and the hosts’ own telemetry. 30 days’ retention is included.
14 GB a month
Managed identities (4)$0.00
User-assigned
No charge: one identity each for ingest, the processor, the portal API and the Static Web App.
4 identities
Azure OpenAI (optional, your own account)Off
Not connected
Tokens per briefing: about 10,000 in and 6,000 out, 30 briefings a month.
Not counted in the total
Total a month$316.02
Per device per month$0.0069

Monthly cost of each resource for 46,000 devices, daily reports, PostgreSQL D2ds_v5, in US dollars
Resource	SKU or setting	What drives its cost	A month
Static Web App (the portal)	Standard, West Europe	A fixed charge per app. The first 100 GB of bandwidth a month in the subscription is included.1 app	$9.00
Ingest Function App	Flex Consumption, 2,048 MB	Time spent handling reports, billed at least one second each time an instance starts work, and executions. Free grant: 100,000 GB-s and 250,000 executions a month, shared with the processor.1.6 million executions, 1.5 million GB-s	$37.93
Processor Function App	Flex Consumption, 2,048 MB	Time for each report it takes off the queue and for the hourly Intune device index, and executions.1.6 million executions, 1.6 million GB-s	$39.80
Portal API Function App	Consumption (Y1), Windows	Executions and GB-seconds while administrators use the portal, after a free grant of 400,000 GB-s and 1 million executions a month.20,000 calls, 5,000 GB-s	$0.00
Service Bus namespace	Standard	A base charge per hour, which includes 13 million operations a month; 3 operations per report.5 million operations	$9.81
PostgreSQL flexible server	D2ds_v5 (General Purpose, 2 vCores, 8 GiB)	Compute per hour, running all month, whatever the load.730 hours	$144.54
PostgreSQL storage and backup	256 GiB Premium SSD, autogrow	Provisioned storage, which doubles when free space runs low and never shrinks; backup beyond the provisioned size.167 GiB after 12 months of reports	$32.38
Storage account (raw reports)	Standard LRS, Hot	One write per report; each report kept 30 days, then 7 days of soft delete.1.6 million writes, 4.3 GB stored	$8.32
Host storage (3 accounts)	Standard LRS, Hot	One account per Function App: its package, and the host’s leases and state while it runs.750,000 operations	$3.76
Azure Monitor alert rules	Log search and metric alerts	Per rule a month, by how often it runs: the failures that otherwise leave only a log line. Notifications past Azure Monitor’s free monthly allowance are billed on top.7 log search rules, 1 metric rule	$5.50
Log Analytics and Application Insights	Pay-as-you-go, 30-day retention	GB ingested after the first 5 GB a month: request and trace records for each report, and the hosts’ own telemetry. 30 days’ retention is included.14 GB a month	$24.98
Managed identities (4)	User-assigned	No charge: one identity each for ingest, the processor, the portal API and the Static Web App.4 identities	$0.00
Azure OpenAI (optional, your own account)	Not connected	Tokens per briefing: about 10,000 in and 6,000 out, 30 briefings a month.Not counted in the total	Off
Total a month			$316.02
Per device per month			$0.0069

How it adds up

More than half is the database. The rest follows the reports.

The demo’s $316.02 a month, by what makes it move.

$173

Billed whatever the load

The Static Web App, the PostgreSQL server’s compute, the Service Bus base charge, the alert rules, and the host storage accounts. They run all month, so a quiet estate still pays for them.

55 % of the demo’s estimate

$111

Grows with reports

Functions time for ingest and the processor, Service Bus operations, the raw-report blobs, and the logs. Twice the devices, or twice as many reports, roughly doubles these.

35 % of the demo’s estimate

$32

Grows with history

PostgreSQL storage. Nothing in the database is deleted yet, so it grows every month, and autogrow doubles the disk when free space runs low.

10 % of the demo’s estimate

The template sets the database size. Its default, Burstable B1ms, is “fine for dev and test”, and it suggests General Purpose for production, which is what the demo’s figure uses. On B1ms the demo’s estimate would be $184.62, but no load test has yet shown that one burstable vCore keeps up with 46,000 devices.

Assumptions

Every number, and where it comes from.

Each figure says whether it comes from the template, a measurement, or Microsoft. DoctorDO’s own assumptions are marked too. The time each report takes in Azure, the database’s size per device, and the log volume haven’t been measured on a real estate yet, so your first bill is what will correct them.

Reports

Telemetry reports per deviceFrom the template: 1 a day, or 8 a day hourlyThe Intune remediation’s documented schedule is daily (collector/intune/README.md); hourly is Intune’s shortest interval, over an assumed 8-hour day
Inventory reports per deviceDoctorDO’s assumption: 5.35 a monthA keyframe every 7 days (docs/08), plus one change a month, assumed: the cumulative update changes the OS build
Telemetry report sizeMeasured: 1,758 B compressedA routine report, as the data page measured it on 19 October 2026 (scripts/payload-sizes.ts). A bad day is 4,462 B
Inventory report sizeMeasured: 5,322 B compressedAs the data page measured it on 19 October 2026, for a device without Autopilot provisioning history
When reports arriveDoctorDO’s assumption: Spread over 8 hours a dayDevices report as they come online. A fleet reporting in one burst costs less Functions time; one spread over 24 hours costs more

Functions

Instance memory (ingest, processor)From the template: 2,048 MBinfra/modules/function-flex.bicep, instanceMemoryMB
Always-ready instancesFrom the template: NoneThe template sets none, so both apps scale to zero and use the on-demand meters
Shortest billed periodMicrosoft: 1,000 ms, then 100 ms stepsFlex Consumption billing. Executions that overlap on one instance share a period
Ingest time per reportDoctorDO’s assumption: 0.3 sSignature check, Entra device lookup, Service Bus send. Not yet measured in Azure
Processor time per reportDoctorDO’s assumption: 0.5 sGunzip, validation, Intune check, blob write, database transaction. Not yet measured in Azure
Concurrency per instanceFrom the template: Ingest 16, processor 4Flex’s HTTP default for 2,048 MB (Microsoft); maxConcurrentCalls in apps/processor/host.json
Intune device indexDoctorDO’s assumption: Hourly, 5 s plus 1 s per 1,000 devicesThe schedule is the template’s (INTUNE_INDEX_SCHEDULE); the duration is assumed
Portal API useDoctorDO’s assumption: 20,000 calls a month, 1 s and 0.25 GB eachA few administrators, about 1,000 calls on each working day

Service Bus

Operations per reportMicrosoft: 3A send is one operation; a receive with a lock and its complete are two (Service Bus pricing FAQ)
Other operationsDoctorDO’s assumption: 100,000 a monthEmpty receives while the processor runs, and housekeeping

PostgreSQL

Suggested sizeDoctorDO’s assumption: B1ms below 5,000 devices, D2ds_v5 to 50,000, D4ds_v5 aboveThe template: Burstable for dev and test, General Purpose for production. Not load-tested yet (docs/12, T-125)
Database per deviceDoctorDO’s assumption: 6 KB per report, 1.75 KB a day, 8 KB per new inventory, 12 KB onceFrom the schema (packages/store/migrations); not measured on a real estate
Space for dead rowsDoctorDO’s assumption: 30 % moreThe hourly Intune index replaces every row; each report rewrites the device summary
History keptDoctorDO’s assumption: Sized for 12 monthsNothing in PostgreSQL is deleted yet (docs/10 section 7), so the database keeps growing
StorageFrom the template: 32 GiB to start, autogrow onAutogrow doubles the disk when free space falls under 20 % or 64 GiB, and never shrinks it (Microsoft)
BackupsDoctorDO’s assumption: 7 days, about 120 % of the dataRetention is the template’s; backup up to the provisioned size is included (Microsoft)
High availability, geo-redundant backupFrom the template: Offinfra/modules/postgres.bicep

Storage, alerts and logs

Raw reportsFrom the template: One blob each, kept 30 days plus 7 of soft deleteinfra/main.bicep `rawReportRetentionDays`; the processor writes one blob per report, and nothing reads them back in normal running
Host storageDoctorDO’s assumption: 250,000 operations and 0.1 GB a month per appLease renewals and host state while the app runs, priced as writes
Alert rulesFrom the template: 2 log search rules every 5 minutes, 5 every 15 or 30, and 1 metric ruleinfra/modules/alerts.bicep
Rules run every 30 minutesDoctorDO’s assumption: Priced as every 15 minutesThe price list has no meter for rules evaluated less often than every 15 minutes
Logs per reportDoctorDO’s assumption: 8 KBA request record and trace lines from ingest and the processor; neither is sampled (host.json), so the alert rules see every line
Logs whatever the loadDoctorDO’s assumption: 1.5 GB a monthHost metrics, the portal API, index runs and Service Bus diagnostics
Log retentionFrom the template: 30 daysinfra/modules/monitoring.bicep; included in the ingestion price (Microsoft)

AI briefing (optional)

ModelDoctorDO’s assumption: gpt-5-mini, Data ZoneYou choose the model. This is the first one the console’s AI setup names, as the Data Zone deployment it prefers to Global
Tokens per briefingDoctorDO’s assumption: 10,000 in, 6,000 outInput: “roughly ten thousand” (ADR-0034). Output assumed, with reasoning; capped at 16,000
BriefingsDoctorDO’s assumption: 30 a monthOne a day; an administrator asks for each one

Free grants and allowances

Some of it is included, and shared.

Several meters start with an amount that costs nothing. Most of those allowances belong to the subscription or the billing account, not to DoctorDO, so other workloads draw on them too. The estimate gives DoctorDO all of them.

Functions, Flex Consumption: 100,000 GB-s and 250,000 executions a month; Per subscription, across every Flex Consumption app in it, on pay-as-you-go subscriptions. Ingest and the processor share it.
Functions, Consumption plan: 400,000 GB-s and 1 million executions a month; Per subscription, across every Consumption app in it. The portal API stays inside it at the use assumed here.
Service Bus Standard: 13 million operations a month, with the base charge; The base charge is billed once a month per subscription, however many Standard namespaces it has. If you already pay it, DoctorDO’s namespace adds none.
Log Analytics: The first 5 GB a month; Per billing account, across every workspace in it. 30 days of retention is included (90 for Application Insights tables).
Static Web Apps Standard: 100 GB of bandwidth a month; Per subscription.
PostgreSQL backup storage: Up to the provisioned storage; Per server, so not shared.

If other workloads have already used the shared allowances, the demo’s estimate rises from $316.02 to $336.73 a month.

Not included

What the estimate leaves out.

The figures are the resources one deployment creates, at list price, before anything below.

Tax. VAT or sales tax is added to the bill.
Data transfer out of Azure beyond the monthly allowance. Reports flow into Azure, which is not charged, and the portal’s pages are small.
Support plans.
Microsoft Connected Cache servers: their hardware or virtual machines, and their own bandwidth.
Your devices’ own bandwidth. A report is a few kilobytes; the updates and apps Delivery Optimization downloads are not DoctorDO’s traffic.
Reserved capacity, savings plans, and agreement prices (Enterprise Agreement, CSP, MCA). They lower the bill; this is pay-as-you-go list price.
Licences for Intune, Windows, and Microsoft Entra ID, including the Windows Enterprise E3 or E5, Windows Education A3 or A5, or Windows VDA licence that Intune Remediations need, since the collector runs from a remediation.
A second copy, such as a test deployment: each is a full set of these resources.
Options the template leaves off: high availability, geo-redundant backup, always-ready instances, and private networking.

Sources

Prices were read from the Azure Retail Prices API (opens in a new tab) on 18 October 2026: pay-as-you-go, North Europe (the Static Web App in West Europe), in US dollars, pounds, and euros. The API’s pounds and euros are rounded to four decimal places, so where a price is smaller than that (Functions, per GB-second and per execution) they are worked out from the dollar price at the rate the API’s own prices imply. To check a figure for your agreement and region, use the Azure pricing calculator (opens in a new tab).

Microsoft’s pricing pages

How it is billed

Every meter priced (26), as the API names it

Read from https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices on 18 October 2026. A tier starts at a quantity in the meter’s own unit; a tier at $0 is a free grant or an included allowance. * Pounds and euros worked out from dollars.

Every Azure meter the estimate uses, as the Azure Retail Prices API returned it on 18 October 2026
Used for	meterName	productName · skuName	armRegionName	unitPrice (USD)	unitOfMeasure	Read on
Static Web Apps Standard, per app	Standard App	Static Web Apps · Standard	westeurope	$9	1/Month	2026-10-18
Static Web Apps Standard bandwidth	Standard Bandwidth Usage	Static Web Apps · Standard	westeurope	0+: $0 · 100+: $0.2	1 GB	2026-10-18
Flex Consumption on-demand execution time *	On Demand Execution Time	Flex Consumption · On Demand	northeurope	0+: $0 · 100,000+: $0.000026	1 GB Second	2026-10-18
Flex Consumption on-demand executions *	On Demand Total Executions	Flex Consumption · On Demand	northeurope	0+: $0 · 25,000+: $0.000004	10	2026-10-18
Consumption plan execution time *	Standard Execution Time	Functions · Standard	northeurope	0+: $0 · 400,000+: $0.000016	1 GB Second	2026-10-18
Consumption plan executions *	Standard Total Executions	Functions · Standard	northeurope	0+: $0 · 100,000+: $0.000002	10	2026-10-18
Service Bus Standard base charge	Standard Base Unit	Service Bus · Standard	northeurope	$0.013441	1/Hour	2026-10-18
Service Bus Standard messaging operations	Standard Messaging Operations	Service Bus · Standard	northeurope	0+: $0 · 13+: $0.8 · 100+: $0.5 · 2,500+: $0.2	1M	2026-10-18
PostgreSQL flexible server, Burstable B1ms	B1MS	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server Burstable BS Series Compute · B1MS	northeurope	$0.018	1 Hour	2026-10-18
PostgreSQL flexible server, Burstable B2s	B2S	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server Burstable BS Series Compute · B2S	northeurope	$0.072	1 Hour	2026-10-18
PostgreSQL flexible server, General Purpose D2ds_v5 (2 vCores)	vCore	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server General Purpose Ddsv5 Series Compute · 2 vCore	northeurope	$0.198	1 Hour	2026-10-18
PostgreSQL flexible server, General Purpose D4ds_v5 (4 vCores)	vCore	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server General Purpose Ddsv5 Series Compute · 4 vCore	northeurope	$0.396	1 Hour	2026-10-18
PostgreSQL flexible server storage (Premium SSD)	Storage Data Stored	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flex Server Storage · Storage	northeurope	$0.1265	1 GB/Month	2026-10-18
PostgreSQL flexible server backup storage (LRS)	Backup Storage LRS Data Stored	Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server Backup Storage · Backup Storage LRS	northeurope	$0.095	1 GB/Month	2026-10-18
Blob storage, Hot LRS, data stored	Hot LRS Data Stored	General Block Blob v2 · Hot LRS	northeurope	0+: $0.022 · 51,200+: $0.02112 · 512,000+: $0.02024	1 GB/Month	2026-10-18
Blob storage, Hot LRS, write operations	Hot LRS Write Operations	General Block Blob v2 · Hot LRS	northeurope	$0.05	10K	2026-10-18
Blob storage, Hot LRS, read operations	Hot Read Operations	General Block Blob v2 · Hot LRS	northeurope	$0.004	10K	2026-10-18
Blob storage, Hot LRS, other operations	All Other Operations	General Block Blob v2 · Hot LRS	northeurope	$0.004	10K	2026-10-18
Log search alert rule, every 5 minutes	Alerts System Log Monitored at 5 Minute Frequency	Azure Monitor · Alerts	northeurope	$1.5	1/Month	2026-10-19
Log search alert rule, every 15 minutes	Alerts System Log Monitored at 15 Minute Frequency	Azure Monitor · Alerts	northeurope	$0.5	1/Month	2026-10-19
Metric alert, per time series monitored	Alerts Metric Monitored	Azure Monitor · Alerts	northeurope	0+: $0 · 10+: $0.1	1/Month	2026-10-19
Log Analytics, Analytics Logs ingestion	Analytics Logs Data Ingestion	Log Analytics · Analytics Logs	northeurope	0+: $0 · 5+: $2.76	1 GB	2026-10-18
Azure OpenAI gpt-5-mini, Data Zone, input tokens	GPT 5 Mini Inpt DZone 1M Tokens	Azure OpenAI GPT5 · GPT 5 Mini Inpt DZone	northeurope	$0.275	1M	2026-10-18
Azure OpenAI gpt-5-mini, Data Zone, output tokens	GPT 5 Mini outpt DZone 1M Tokens	Azure OpenAI GPT5 · GPT 5 Mini outpt DZone	northeurope	$2.2	1M	2026-10-18
Azure OpenAI gpt-4.1-mini, Data Zone, input tokens *	gpt 4.1 mini Inp Data Zone Tokens	Azure OpenAI · gpt 4.1 mini Inp Data Zone	northeurope	$0.00044	1K	2026-10-18
Azure OpenAI gpt-4.1-mini, Data Zone, output tokens *	gpt 4.1 mini Outp Data Zone Tokens	Azure OpenAI · gpt 4.1 mini Outp Data Zone	northeurope	$0.00176	1K	2026-10-18

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