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Azure Application Gateway enables you to build highly scalable and available web sites by providing HTTP load balancing and delivery control. Web Application Firewall Application Gateway provides you with all the benefits of a basic Application Gateway, as well as protection against malicious web requests.

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Prices are estimates only and are not intended as actual price quotes. Actual pricing may vary depending on the type of agreement entered with Microsoft, date of purchase, and the currency exchange rate. Prices are calculated based on US dollars and converted using London closing spot rates that are captured in the two business days prior to the last business day of the previous month end. If the two business days prior to the end of the month fall on a bank holiday in major markets, the rate setting day is generally the day immediately preceding the two business days. This rate applies to all transactions during the upcoming month. Sign in to the Azure pricing calculator to see pricing based on your current program/offer with Microsoft. Contact an Azure sales specialist for more information on pricing or to request a price quote. See frequently asked questions about Azure pricing.

Azure Application Gateway V2 offer support for autoscaling, zone redundancy, and Static VIP. These gateways also offer enhanced performance, better provisioning, and configuration update time, header rewrites, and WAF custom rules. Please refer to documentation for additional product details, as well as the FAQ section below for pricing and billing information.

Not available Application Gateway Basic Application Gateway Standard Web Application Firewall
Fixed $- per gateway-hour $- per gateway-hour $- per gateway-hour
Capacity Unit1 $- per capacity unit-hour $- per capacity unit-hour $- per capacity unit-hour
1For more information on Capacity Unit, please refer to the FAQ section at the bottom of the page.
*Monthly price estimates are based on 730 hours of usage per month.

Data transfers

Type Example Price
Inbound Data going into Azure data centers Free
Outbound Data going out of Azure data centers from application gateways Charged at standard data transfer rates.

Application Gateway for Containers brings native support for container workload load balancing, providing scale and modern application load balancing functionality. Application Gateway for Containers charges on provisioning of each Application Gateway for Containers resource, Application Gateway for Containers Frontends, Application Gateway for Containers Associations, and capacity units. Please refer to documentation for additional product details.

Application Gateway for Container $- per application gateway for container-hour
Frontend $- per frontend-hour
Association $- per association-hour
Capacity Unit $- per capacity unit-hour

*Monthly price estimates are based on 730 hours of usage per month.

On April 28, 2026, Application Gateway V1 will be retired. Please transition to Application Gateway V2 before that date. Learn more.

We charge for the application gateways based on the amount of time that the gateway is provisioned and available, as well as the amount of data processed by the application gateways.

Application Gateway Type Basic Application Gateway Web Application Firewall Application Gateway
Small $- per gateway-hour Not available
Medium $- per gateway-hour $- per gateway-hour
Large $- per gateway-hour $- per gateway-hour

*Monthly price estimates are based on 730 hours of usage per month.

**When using multiple instances, you are charged per instance.

For technical specifications and limitations regarding the different application gateways, please refer to this overview.

Data processing

Data processing charge is based on the amount of data processed by the application gateways.

Data Processing Price
Small
Medium
Large

Data transfers

Type Example Price
Inbound Data going into Azure data centers Free
Outbound Data going out of Azure data centers from application gateways Charged at standard data transfer rates.

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  • Yes, a partial hour is billed as a full hour.

  • No, the small application gateway size is offered primarily for DEV/TEST purposes. Running production workloads on small application gateways may overload the processing capacity of the small instances. Application Gateway supports deployment with one or more instances within the same cloud service. Running an Application Gateway cloud service with only one instance is not recommended due to the lack of high availability.

  • Capacity Units measure consumption-based cost that is charged in addition to the fixed cost. Capacity unit charge is also computed hourly or partial hourly. There are three dimensions to capacity unit - compute unit, persistent connections, and throughput. Compute unit is a measure of processor capacity consumed. Please refer to our documentation page.

  • Both the WAF and WAF_v2 SKU include the use of WAF Policy and WAF rules at no additional cost.

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