Microsoft Azure free account (azure free account)
- Free allowance
- If you sign up for an Azure free account, you'll get a $200 credit that you can apply to try services that aren't in the free list, or to use more than your free amounts of any services.
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 200/TB-month
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- volume-quota$200 of egress at $0.087 per GB is 2.18 TiB, and the credit expires at 30 days
- Evidence
- documented3 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 | If you sign up for an Azure free account, you'll get a $200 credit that you can apply to try services that aren't in the free list, or to use more than your free amounts of any services. You have up to 30 days to use your credit. unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 200 of credit |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota the credit is a total byte allowance that dies at 30 days. At 1 TiB a month it carries 2.18 TiB in that one month, so the credit itself is not the binding number; the 30-day expiry ends the arrangement while credit is still nominally available, because the second month does not exist. |
| Identity | card All you need is a phone number, a credit card or a debit card (non-prepaid), and a Microsoft account or a GitHub account. We don't charge your credit card or debit card anything when you sign up for Azure, but you may see a one-dollar (or equivalent) verification hold. |
| Egress | $200 of credit at $0.087 per GB after the first 100 GB a month, so 2.18 TiB inside the 30-day credit window; ingress: udp free allowance: $200 of credit at $0.087 per GB after the first 100 GB a month, so 2.18 TiB inside the 30-day credit window |
| Interface | cli, rest Azure CLI and the Azure Resource Manager REST API |
| Tooling | wg-quick on the VM; Azure CLI or the portal for the NIC and network security group |
| Composes with | an Azure VM as the WireGuard endpoint for one month, then the arrangement ends; it does not chain into a second month without a paid subscription |
| Reliability | the free account must move to pay-as-you-go within 30 days or when the credit is used up, whichever is first, or free services stop |
| Notes | Arithmetic: $200 over $0.087 a GB is 2,298.9 GB, plus the 100 GB free each month = 2,398.9 GB = 2.40 TB = 2.18 TiB, all inside a 30-day window. That clears 1 TiB a month for exactly one month. The wider offer also carries 12 months of free monthly amounts of selected services and 65 or more always-free services, but the 100 GB a month egress line is the only one that touches this test, and it is about a tenth of 1 TiB. Routing preference transit ISP at $0.08 per GB buys 2,599 GB = 2.36 TiB instead of 2.18, an 8 percent change that does not move the verdict. |
| Evidence note | documented a probe would confirm that a fresh free account reaches 1 TiB in 30 days without a subscription limit firing first |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ | 'you'll get a $200 credit ... You have up to 30 days to use your credit' and 'All you need is a phone number, a credit card or a debit card (non-prepaid)' |
| 2026-10-23 | azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/ | 'Internet Egress ... First 100 GB/Month Free', 'Next 10 TB/Month $0.087 per GB' from North America and Europe; 'Data Transfer In Free'; 'Azure already offers the first 100 GB/month of egressed data for free to all customers in all Azure regions around the world' |
| 2026-10-23 | learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/network-secu | a network security group rule's protocol field accepts UDP, so UDP ingress is expressible and 51820 is not special |
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"wg_path": "native-conf",
"wg_detail": "a full Azure VM with a public IP; wg-quick binds UDP directly, with no Azure-side listener in the path",
"ingress": "udp",
"volume_tib_month": 2.18,
"volume_stated": "$200 of credit at $0.087 per GB after the first 100 GB a month, so 2.18 TiB inside the 30-day credit window",
"bytes_transit": "yes",
"transit_note": "the VM's outbound bytes cross Microsoft's network and are metered as internet egress after 100 GB a month"
}Unknown values 2
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