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# Card
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- title: Overview
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title: Understand Storage Discovery Pricing | Microsoft Docs
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titleSuffix: Azure Storage Discovery
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description: Storage Discovery pricing and features available with each pricing plan.
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# Azure Storage Discovery pricing
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Azure Storage Discovery provides a centralized view of storage across subscriptions and regions, aggregating metrics on capacity, activity, and configuration. This article describes how you plan for and manage costs for Azure Storage Discovery.
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Azure Storage Discovery offers free and paid pricing plans. This article describes the differences and explains what influences the bill when choosing a paid option.
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## Understand the full billing model for Azure Storage Discovery
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> [!TIP]
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> Billing for Azure Storage Discovery starts October 1st, 2025. Until then, all pricing plans are free of charge.
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Azure Storage Discovery is available in free and paid
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## Pricing plans
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For each Discovery workspace, you can select from free or paid options. The number of insights and their retention varies.
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For each Discovery workspace, you can select from free or paid options. The number of insights and their retention varies.
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| Discovery pricing plan | Description |
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| Free | Includes limited Capacity and Resource configuration insights for up to 15 days with daily updates of the data. |
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| Standard | Includes insights for Capacity, Operations, Resource and security configurations with hourly updates. Upon workspace creation, historic data is aggregated for the prior 30 days and all data is retained for up to 18 months.|
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<th rowspan="2" style="border-right: 1px solid #ddd;">PRICING PLAN</th>
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<th colspan="4">AVAILABLE INSIGHTS</th>
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<th>Capacity</th>
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<th>Transactions</th>
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<td style="border-right: 1px solid">Free</td>
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<li>Trends</li>
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<li>Distributions</li>
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<li>Top storage accounts</li>
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<td><ul><li>N/A</li></ul></td>
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<td><ul><li>N/A</li></ul></td>
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<li>Backfill: 30 days</li>
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<li>History: 18 months</li>
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<li>Top storage accounts</li>
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<li>Backfill: 30 days</li>
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## Azure Storage Discovery meters
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The total cost of a Storage Discovery workspace will depend on its configuration.
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## Understand billing
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You can configure a workspace to observe storage resources (e.g. storage accounts).
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In the case of Azure Blob Storage, storage accounts contain objects. The cost of a Discovery workspace depends on the number of storage account resources and blobs within them.
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The total cost of a Storage Discovery workspace depends on the pricing plan you choose and how you configure your workspace.
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Cost increases with the number of storage resources and stored data objects you analyze.
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In the case of Azure Blob Storage, storage accounts contain objects. The cost of a Discovery workspace depends on the number of storage account resources and blobs within them that are in scope to be analyzed.
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| **Storage accounts analyzed** | Free | There is a fee per storage resource (e.g.: storage account) that is in a scope of your workspace. The more storage resources you analyze, the more the average resource cost decreases.|
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| **Total objects analyzed*** | Free | There is a fee per data object (e.g.: blob object) that is contained in a storage resource. The more storage objects you analyze, the more the average object cost decreases. |
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> The actual cost in your market and currency will be published on Azure.com before billing begins on October 1st, 2025.
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## Additional considerations
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Storing, retrieving, or generating Discovery insights causes no additional charges. Your Azure Storage resources experience no additional transactions or performance impact when analyzing them with Azure Storage Discovery.
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Every workspace is billed individually. Including a storage resource in a paid Discovery workspace increases the bill of that workspace, even if the same storage resource is already included in a different workspace.
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## Next steps
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After understanding the billing implications, it's a good idea to get more familiar with the Discovery service. Select an article to learn more.
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- [Get an overview of the Discovery service](overview.md)
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- [Plan your Storage Discovery deployment](deployment-planning.md)
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- [Create a Storage Discovery workspace](create-workspace.md)

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