Try out different Azure services, experiment, and learn.
Create development environments whenever you need.
Great for individual dev/test workloads.
Activate your monthly Azure creditActive subscribers get the following credit each month:
| $50 | $100 | $150 |
|---|---|---|
Visual Studio Professional – annual Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN | MSDN Platforms | Visual Studio Enterprise – annual Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN (BizSpark) Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN (MPN) |
When you first set up your monthly Azure credit, you are not required to provide a credit card. Even if you choose to store a credit card in your account, you automatically start with a $0 spending limit—so there is no risk of any charges, until you’re ready.
Use the Microsoft software included with your Visual Studio subscription on Azure Virtual Machines for dev/test at no extra charge—you’ll just pay the Linux rate for VMs you run, even VMs with SQL Server, SharePoint Server, or other software that is normally billed at a higher rate. Upload custom virtual machine images yourself or use one of our pre-configured images from the Azure Gallery.
In addition to the low dev/test rates on VMs, you also get low rates on Cloud Services, HDInsight, and Web Apps.
When you set up your monthly Azure credit, you can run Windows 10 images on Azure for dev/test.
The choice is yours on how you use your monthly Azure credit. Use the credit toward on almost any Azure service including Virtual Machines, Web Apps, Cloud Services, Mobile Services, Storage, SQL Databases, Content Delivery Network, HDInsight, Media Services, and many more.
Support plans, Application Insights, Visual Studio subscriptions, Visual Studio Team Services, third-party branded products, products sold through Marketplace, and products otherwise sold separately from Azure (for example, Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium) are the only exceptions; you’ll be billed for any of these services used.
While the monthly Azure credit for Visual Studio subscribers is great for your personal dev/test workloads, it isn’t optimal for work you’re doing as a team. Thankfully, we’ve created a couple options for you to get lower dev/test rates, access to Windows 10 for dev/test, along with other advantages:
Enterprise Dev/Test: if your organization has an Enterprise Agreement (EA) purchasing contract with Microsoft
Pay-As-You-Go Dev/Test: if you don’t have an EA
You can review the specifics for each monthly Azure credit offer for Visual Studio subscribers here:
Visual Studio Enterprise (for both Visual Studio Enterprise with MSDN and Visual Studio Enterprise – annual)
Visual Studio Enterprise (BizSpark)
Visual Studio Enterprise (MPN)
Visual Studio Professional (for both Visual Studio Professional with MSDN and Visual Studio Professional – annual)
Monthly Azure credits for Visual Studio subscribers are specifically for dev/test usage only. Production workloads must be run on regular Azure subscriptions such as Pay-As-You-Go.
Yes, if your organization uses Azure Active Directory, such as if you are using Office 365. For additional details, see the Using Work Accounts FAQ.
Starting September 8, 2016, free Azure subscriptions created via the Visual Studio Subscriptions benefit may see certain geographies not available for creating new VMs and Azure Services. This will have no impact to service availability.
The monthly Azure credit for Visual Studio subscribers is for development and testing only and is offered at discounted usage rates. These offers do not carry a financially-backed SLA. We reserve the right to suspend any instance (VM or cloud service) that runs continuously for more than 120 hours or if we determine that the instance is being used for production. We are making this capacity available to Visual Studio subscribers on a best efforts basis; there is no guarantee of capacity availability.
Yes. See more details on spending limits.
Credit pooling is not available, as the benefit is designed for individual subscriber usage.
Please review the Azure server software support for virtual machines.