Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics merges enterprise SQL data warehousing with big data processing, letting you query diverse systems from a single platform. It handles large-scale analytics workloads, aiming to speed up insight generation across your existing data infrastructure. The service operates on a strict pay-as-you-go model, charging based on storage volume rather than fixed capacity reservations.
This setup suits teams already embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem who need unified access to both structured and unstructured data. The main friction point is the lack of a free tier; you start paying immediately at $0.0562 per GB/month. There is no trial period or sandbox to test performance before committing to ongoing storage costs, which can add up quickly for large datasets.
- Free tier No
- Starting price from $0.0562 per GB/month
- Regions 12 · 6 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 13 certifications
- Provider health A
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- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
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- compute99.99%
- database99.99%
- networking99.99%
- storage99.99%
12 regions across 6 continents
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
Pricing tiers 50
| Tier / Plan | Price | Unit | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| DW100c · Dedicated SQL Pool | $1.20 | per hour | eastus |
| Standard RA-GRS | $0.0562 | per GB/month | eastus |
| Backup Storage | $0.0562 | per GB/month | eastus |
| vCore | $0.1500 | per hour | eastus |
| 1 vCore | $0.2190 | per hour | eastus |
| Azure Hosted IR | $0.2500 | per hour | eastus |
| Azure Hosted Managed VNET IR | $0.2500 | per hour | eastus |
| Operations | $0.2500 | 50K | eastus |
| D2 v3 | $0.2900 | per hour | eastus |
| D2 v2 | $0.4040 | per hour | eastus |
| D4 v3 | $0.5790 | per hour | eastus |
| E2 v3 | $0.7870 | per hour | eastus |
| D3 v2 | $0.8090 | per hour | eastus |
| D8 v3 | $1.16 | per hour | eastus |
| Self Hosted IR | $1.50 | per 1K | eastus |
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| Tier / Plan | Price | Unit | Region |
|---|---|---|---|
| SQL_DW100c | $1.51 | per hour | eastus |
| DWU | $1.51 | per hour | eastus |
| D4 v2 | $1.62 | per hour | eastus |
| D1 v2 | $1.66 | per hour | eastus |
| A8 v2 | $1.73 | per hour | eastus |
| A4 v2 | $1.91 | per hour | eastus |
| E4 v3 | $2.26 | per hour | eastus |
| E8 v3 | $2.37 | per hour | eastus |
| DW200c | $3.02 | per hour | eastus |
| E16 v3 | $3.18 | per hour | eastus |
| DW300c | $4.53 | per hour | eastus |
| D32 v3 | $4.63 | per hour | eastus |
| DW400c | $6.04 | per hour | eastus |
| E32 v3 | $6.35 | per hour | eastus |
| DW500c | $7.55 | per hour | eastus |
| D16 v3 | $8.16 | per hour | eastus |
| E64 v3 | $11.97 | per hour | eastus |
| E80ids v4 | $13.68 | per hour | eastus |
| DW1000c | $15.10 | per hour | eastus |
| D64 v3 | $15.50 | per hour | eastus |
| E64i v3 | $18.21 | per hour | eastus |
| DW1500c | $22.65 | per hour | eastus |
| Standard LRS | $23.00 | 1 TB/Month | eastus |
| Standard | $23.00 | 1 TB/Month | eastus |
| DW2000c | $30.20 | per hour | eastus |
| DW2500c | $37.75 | per hour | eastus |
| DW3000c | $45.30 | per hour | eastus |
| DW5000c | $75.50 | per hour | eastus |
| DW6000c | $90.60 | per hour | eastus |
| DW7500c | $113.25 | per hour | eastus |
| DW10000c | $151.00 | per hour | eastus |
| DW15000c | $226.50 | per hour | eastus |
| DW30000c | $453.00 | per hour | eastus |
| SQL_DW100c · Reserved 1yr | $13889.00 | per hour | eastus |
| Serverless SQL | $5.00 | per TB processed | eastus |
Prices in USD. Micro-prices are quoted per 1M units; "< $0.000001" marks rates below our stored precision. Subject to change — check the provider's official page.
Alternatives on other providers
Azure Synapse Analytics has the highest starting price of 2 comparable services — $0.0562 per GB/month.
- AWS Amazon Redshift $70.00 per 1M seconds Compare
- Google Cloud Platform BigQuery $0.0100 per GB/month Compare