Microsoft Azure Free Account — Blob Storage

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-servicesIaaSstorage/microsoft-azure-free-account-blob-storageJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Free allowance: 5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'. Not in the always-free list. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	card not published
Egress	Internet egress: 'First 100 GB/Month \| Free' from every source continent, for all Azure customers, in perpetuity (not part of the 12-month offer). free allowance: 100 GB per month
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	s3, rest, rclone s3
Tooling	Azure Blob REST API; rclone 'azureblob' backend; azcopy; SAS tokens/public containers for anonymous reads.
Composes with	One free account per customer, and the 5 GB ends at month 12 while the storage keeps running and starts billing — a negative multiplier unless torn down. $200 credit is 30 days.
Reliability	Stable while it lasts; the failure mode is silent conversion to pay-as-you-go at month 12 with data still resident.

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services	'Azure Blob Storage: 5 GB locally redundant storage (LRS) hot block with 20,000 read and 10,000 write operations' tagged 'Storage \| 12 months free'
2026-10-21	azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/	'Internet Egress ... First 100 GB/Month: Free' (North America/Europe to any destination)

More fields 1

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 GB LRS hot block blob with 20,000 read + 10,000 write operations, 'Free for your first 12 months'. Not in the always-free list.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown values 6

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$.identity_cost.detail boilerplate
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$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read