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Azure Virtual Machines (Windows Server)

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Free allowance
750 hours each of B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 burstable VMs free every month for the first 12 months, which is one always-on machine of each family
Verdict
caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost
free tier
Identity
email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit
request-rate750 hours a month each on B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2, for the first 12 months only
Evidence
documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
Free tier750 hours each of B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2 burstable VMs free every month for the first 12 months, which is one always-on machine of each family
unit hours; metered on wall-clock
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • request-rate (binding) 750 hours a month each on B2ts v2, B2pts v2 and B2ats v2, for the first 12 months only source
  • retention-clamped a Stopped VM still bills its allocated cores; only a Deallocated VM stops the compute charge source
not stated
Identityemail (placeholder) not published
Egressnot stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Interfaceunknown
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
Evidence notedocumented the Windows virtual machines pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and states the 750-hour monthly allowance per burstable family for 12 months. Because the page is the Windows one, the allowance includes the licence, which the Linux page's rows do not
Parsed numbers
  • request-rate 750 hours / month
Evidence 2
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/wnot published
2026-10-22azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/w'Get 750 hours each of B2ts v2 (Intel-based), B2pts v2 (Arm-based), and B2ats v2 (AMD-based) burstable VMs free every month for 12 months' and 'Stopped: you are billed for allocated cores' and 'Deleted (Deallocated): cores are no longer allocated', quoted
More fields 11
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 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 2,
  "ram": 8,
  "disk": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null,
  "note": "B2ts v2: 2 vCPU, 8 GiB burstable, with the Windows licence included in the free hours"
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "750 hours a month is 730 hours of always-on use, so one machine of each family fits; the 12-month clock resets nothing"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "trial",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "net": {
  "out": true,
  "in": true,
  "ports": "any",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": false,
  "allowance": null
 }
}
Unknown values 10
  • $.chaining a source was read and is silent on this field
  • $.egress.metered egress metering was not published
  • $.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field
  • $.interface the access interface was not established
  • $.limits_note a source was read and is silent on this field
  • $.per_object_cap.stated a source was read and is silent on this field
  • $.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed
  • $.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • $.retention.stated a source was read and is silent on this field
  • $.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field

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