Azure Bandwidth Cost Calculator
Estimate Azure bandwidth charges: internet egress over Microsoft's network, Front Door, inter-region transfer and NAT Gateway, next to AWS and Google Cloud.
Updated · By Niraj Kumar · 14 sources
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Where
Traffic to users
Everything your servers, storage and CDN send to users and other services on the internet.
Each provider's own CDN: CloudFront, Cloud CDN, Front Door, Cloudflare or Spaces CDN.
Traffic inside the cloud
Replication, backups and calls to services in a different region.
Service-to-service calls, load balancing and database replicas in other zones of the same region.
NAT and servers
Outbound calls, package and image pulls from private subnets.
Usually one per availability zone.
Sets pooled transfer allowances and Cloud NAT's per-VM fee.
- Internet egress
- $882
- Inter-region
- $10.00
- NAT gateway hours
- $32.85
- NAT data processed
- $22.50
- Price rank
- 6th cheapest of 8
- Cheapest cloud with servers
- DigitalOcean
- $0.00 a month, $948 less
- 1Cloudflarebandwidth only$0.00Cloudflare runs no servers, so region, zone and NAT traffic is priced on whatever compute sits behind it.
- 2DigitalOcean$0.00DigitalOcean has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
- 3Akamai Cloud (Linode)$0.00Linode has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
- 4Oracle Cloud$4.25
- 5Hetzner Cloud$8.51Uses 10.5 TB against a pooled allowance of 3 TB across 3 servers.
- 6Microsoft Azure$948
- 7AWS$998
- 8Google Cloud$1,182
| Provider | Internet egress | Inter-region | Cross-AZ | NAT gateway hours | NAT data processed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | – | – | – | – | – | $0.00 |
| DigitalOcean | – | – | – | – | – | $0.00 |
| Akamai Cloud (Linode) | – | – | – | – | – | $0.00 |
| Oracle Cloud | $4.25 | – | – | – | – | $4.25 |
| Hetzner Cloud | $8.51 | – | – | – | – | $8.51 |
| Microsoft Azure | $882 | $10.00 | – | $32.85 | $22.50 | $948 |
| AWS | $913 | $10.00 | $20.00 | $32.85 | $22.50 | $998 |
| Google Cloud | $1,137 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $3.07 | $22.50 | $1,182 |
How is cloud data transfer billed?
As of September 28, 2026, on Microsoft Azure internet egress from North America starts at $0.087 per GB; Front Door Standard starts at $0.083 per GB; and a NAT Gateway costs $0.045 an hour plus $0.045 per GB processed. Your bill is each traffic type's gigabytes times its rate, tier by tier, plus any hourly charges.
monthly = tiered(internet egress) + CDN delivery + misses × origin fetch + inter-region GB × rate + cross-AZ GB × rate + NAT gateways × hourly × 730 + NAT GB × processing rateThis page uses the same method as the Cloud Egress Cost Calculator, which explains each term and assumption in full.
Worked example
A workload in North America on Microsoft Azure: 10 TB a month to the internet, 500 GB to another region, 1,000 GB across zones, 500 GB through NAT, on 3 servers.
- 1Internet egress: $882
- 2Inter-region: $10.00
- 3NAT gateway hours: $32.85
- 4NAT data processed: $22.50
- 5Total: $948 a month
$948 a month on Microsoft Azure, $11,370 a year. The cheapest cloud listed that runs servers, DigitalOcean, would cost $0.00 a month.
Frequently asked questions
What does Microsoft Azure charge for bandwidth?
At list prices, internet egress from North America starts at $0.087 per GB; Front Door Standard starts at $0.083 per GB; and a NAT Gateway costs $0.045 an hour plus $0.045 per GB processed. Internet egress over Microsoft's premium global network; choosing the transit-ISP routing preference is cheaper ($0.08 per GB to 10 TB from North America). Azure stopped billing traffic between availability zones in 2024. Front Door adds a $35 monthly base fee and request charges, which are not counted here.
Does Azure charge for traffic between availability zones?
No. In 2024 Microsoft stopped charging for data transfer between availability zones in the same region, whether over private or public IP addresses, so Azure's cross-AZ line in the calculator is zero. That makes Azure cheaper than AWS and Google for chatty multi-zone deployments, where zone-to-zone traffic is billed at $0.01 per GB.
Sources
- AWS, EC2 on-demand pricing: data transfer · checked
- AWS, Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go pricing · checked
- AWS, Amazon VPC pricing (NAT gateway) · checked
- Google Cloud, all networking pricing · checked
- Google Cloud, Cloud CDN pricing · checked
- Google Cloud, Cloud NAT pricing · checked
- Microsoft, Azure bandwidth pricing · checked
- Microsoft, Azure Front Door pricing · checked
- Microsoft, Azure NAT Gateway pricing · checked
- Cloudflare, R2 pricing · checked
- Oracle, OCI networking price list · checked
- DigitalOcean, bandwidth billing · checked
- Akamai, network transfer usage and costs · checked
- Hetzner, Cloud billing FAQ · checked
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