Windows 365 Cloud PC (Business / Enterprise)

www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business/compare-plans-pWindows hostcompute/windows-365JSON compare report an error provider JSON

Free allowance: No free tier: Windows 365 Business is a monthly subscription from a 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 128 GB configuration upward, with a time-limited free trial
Verdict: triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
Cost: no price stated
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: request-ratea monthly auto-renewing subscription per Cloud PC; the trial is a separate term
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 tier	no free tier: Windows 365 Business is a monthly subscription from a 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 128 GB configuration upward, with a time-limited free trial unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) a monthly auto-renewing subscription per Cloud PC; the trial is a separate term source per-object-cap shapes run from 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 128 GB to 8 vCPU, 32 GB and 256 GB source not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	not stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	unknown
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	documented the plan comparison was read on 2026-10-22 and states the monthly subscription model across the ladder with a separate trial. There is no free tier, so the verdict moves to trial-only and the shape ladder is recorded
Parsed numbers	per-object-cap 8 GB

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business/compare-plans-p	not published
2026-10-22	www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/business/compare-plans-p	'Windows 365 Business 2 vCPU, 8 GB, 128 GB (Monthly subscription - auto renews)' with '[Try for free]' and 'See trial terms', and the ladder to 'Windows 365 Business 8 vCPU, 32 GB, 256 GB', quoted

More fields 12

{
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": "always-on by contract",
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 2,
  "ram": 8,
  "disk": 128,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null,
  "note": "the entry Cloud PC; the top of the ladder is 8 vCPU, 32 GB and 256 GB"
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "a Cloud PC is a persistent desktop for the subscription term; the trial is the only clock"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "trial",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "ps": {
  "gib": 128,
  "price": "included in the subscription",
  "durability": "persistent Cloud PC disk",
  "on_stop": true,
  "on_destroy": false,
  "retention": "the subscription term"
 },
 "net": {
  "out": true,
  "in": true,
  "ports": "a managed desktop, reached through the Windows App",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": null,
  "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