Azure Pricing

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user asks about the cost of any Azure service
• Wants to compare SKU prices
• Needs pricing data for a cost estimate
• Mentions Azure pricing

Example prompts

• “Use the azure-pricing skill to fetch real-time Azure retail pricing using the Azure Retail Prices API (prices.azure.com) and estimates Copilot…”
• “/azure-pricing”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires internet access to prices.azure.com and learn.microsoft.com. No authentication needed.

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Identify filter fields from the user's request (service name, region, SKU, price type).
2. 2Resolve the region: the API requires armRegionName values in lowercase with no spaces (e.g. "East US" → eastus, "West Europe" →…
3. 3Build the filter string using the fields below and fetch the URL.
4. 4Parse the Items array from the JSON response. Each item contains price and metadata.
5. 5Follow pagination via NextPageLink if you need more than the first 1000 results (rarely needed).
6. 6Calculate cost estimates using the formulas in references/COST-ESTIMATOR.md to produce monthly/annual estimates.
7. 7Present results in a clear summary table with service, SKU, region, unit price, and monthly/annual estimates.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e9ecd00. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • prices.azure.com

  Also links to:

  • learn.microsoft.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Requires internet access to prices.azure.com and learn.microsoft.com. No authentication needed.

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Azure Pricing loads about 2.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~6.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 132 tokens; SKILL.md has 875 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~132

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.4k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~6.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from Azure/Copilot-Studio-and-Azure at commit e9ecd00, republished under its MIT licence (© Azure). 875 words, ~2,371 tokens.

name

azure-pricing

description

Fetches real-time Azure retail pricing using the Azure Retail Prices API (prices.azure.com) and estimates Copilot Studio agent credit consumption. Use when the user asks about the cost of any Azure service, wants to compare SKU prices, needs pricing data for a cost estimate, mentions Azure pricing, Azure costs, Azure billing, or asks about Copilot Studio pricing, Copilot Credits, or agent usage estimation. Covers compute, storage, networking, databases, AI, Copilot Studio, and all other Azure service families.

compatibility

Requires internet access to prices.azure.com and learn.microsoft.com. No authentication needed.

metadata.author

anthonychu

metadata.version

1.2

GET https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview

# All consumption prices for Functions in East US
serviceName eq 'Functions' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and priceType eq 'Consumption'

# D4s v5 VMs in West Europe (consumption only)
armSkuName eq 'Standard_D4s_v5' and armRegionName eq 'westeurope' and priceType eq 'Consumption'

# All storage prices in a region
serviceName eq 'Storage' and armRegionName eq 'eastus'

# Spot pricing for a specific SKU
armSkuName eq 'Standard_D4s_v5' and contains(meterName, 'Spot') and armRegionName eq 'eastus'

# 1-year reservation pricing
serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and priceType eq 'Reservation' and armRegionName eq 'eastus'

# Azure AI / OpenAI pricing (now under Foundry Models)
serviceName eq 'Foundry Models' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and priceType eq 'Consumption'

# Azure Cosmos DB pricing
serviceName eq 'Azure Cosmos DB' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and priceType eq 'Consumption'

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName eq 'Functions' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and priceType eq 'Consumption'

{
  "Items": [
    {
      "retailPrice": 0.000016,
      "unitPrice": 0.000016,
      "currencyCode": "USD",
      "unitOfMeasure": "1 Execution",
      "serviceName": "Functions",
      "skuName": "Premium",
      "armRegionName": "eastus",
      "meterName": "vCPU Duration",
      "productName": "Functions",
      "priceType": "Consumption",
      "isPrimaryMeterRegion": true,
      "savingsPlan": [
        { "unitPrice": 0.000012, "term": "1 Year" },
        { "unitPrice": 0.000010, "term": "3 Years" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "NextPageLink": null,
  "Count": 1
}

© Azure, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in .github/skills/azure-pricing of Azure/Copilot-Studio-and-Azure.

• SKILL.md
• references/COPILOT-STUDIO-RATES.md
• references/COST-ESTIMATOR.md
• references/REGIONS.md
• references/SERVICE-NAMES.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e9ecd00

Used in 3 other repositories

We found 5 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 3 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in Azure/Copilot-Studio-and-Azure, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• github/awesome-copilotskills/azure-pricing
• majiayu000/claude-skill-registryskills/ai-ml/azure-pricingskills/analysis/azure-pricing+1 more
• boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/azure-pricing