Azure Automation pricing

There is no cost for Azure Automation if no runbooks are executed on it. The cost of Azure Automation is charged per minute for execution of runbook jobs. This means that if the total number of runbook execution minutes is 10,000, the cost of Azure Automation would be $0.002 per minute multiplied by 9,500, as the first 500 minutes are free.

There are other costs involved in Azure Automation depending on features consumed. For example, a DSC pull server does not cost anything within Azure Automation; neither does onboarding Azure VMs on to the pull server. However, if non-Azure servers are onboarded, typically from other clouds or on-premises, then the first five servers are free and anything on top of that costs $6 per server per month in the West US region.

Pricing may vary from region to region, and it's always a good practice to verify the pricing on the official pricing page: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/automation.

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