2021-01-27T12:01:51Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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Lakshman Nimmakayala - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2024-01-25T11:57:06Z
Jan 25, 2024

It is a relatively affordable solution.

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SP
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-11-27T12:13:00Z
Nov 27, 2023

The tool is not expensive. It is good for small use cases.

Chandrakant Deshmukh - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2023-09-25T06:42:00Z
Sep 25, 2023

Microsoft provides fair pricing.

VG
Real User
Top 20
2023-09-14T13:51:00Z
Sep 14, 2023

Right now, I have opted for the student subscription plan, for which Microsoft charges me around 100 USD. The pricing of the solution depends on the solution's usage.

AR
Real User
2023-07-24T07:44:27Z
Jul 24, 2023

Cost isn’t a big hurdle for us right now. The solution is not costly.

RodrigoGalhardo - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-06-07T15:29:00Z
Jun 7, 2023

The solution is very expensive.

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Nadeem-Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10
2023-04-14T10:00:24Z
Apr 14, 2023

The pricing depends on the budget allocated to the client; for some, it can be high, and for some not high. But mostly, when the prices are moderate, they are not very high. I would rate it a seven out of ten.

SB
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-04-10T07:59:00Z
Apr 10, 2023

As your data grows, the licensing cost can be expensive.

VS
Real User
2023-01-03T15:49:00Z
Jan 3, 2023

I rate Cosmos DB one out of 10 for affordability. It was expensive. We pay almost $1,000 daily to use it. It doesn't work traditionally — it works on resource units — so it's costly. It's a graph DB, which has advantages and disadvantages. Neo4j and MongoDB do the same thing, so it depends on your environment and costs. There are also issues with how you design it. You cannot create the traditional way like you would in other databases or graph databases. Typically, you would pay a fixed subscription yearly. With Cosmos DB, you pay monthly based on the source unit. That's what is expensive. It's harder to find designers and developers based on that. Many solution architects will set something up using the traditional way of thinking. Once you start using it expensively, it's challenging to change that. You end up with millions of records, so it's impossible to change all of them.

GP
Real User
2022-12-21T13:12:27Z
Dec 21, 2022

Pricing is one of the solution's main features because it is based on usage, scales automatically, and is not too costly. As usage scales up or down, the price moves accordingly. For example, we might have 30,000 users and the requirement is high so the solution automatically scales up. If the requirement lowers because the application isn't being used all the time, then the usage automatically grades down and so do our costs. Technical support is included as a free service. I rate pricing a seven out of ten.

RP
Real User
Top 5
2022-11-15T22:43:00Z
Nov 15, 2022

Cosmos DB is expensive compared to any virtual machine based on conventional RDBMS like MySQL or PostgreSQL. The reason it is expensive is that it is scalable, reliable and there is no latency. So while Cosmos DB is considered expensive, what a lot of people miss is that the cost includes reliability, scalability, and responsiveness. Cost also depends on the number of databases, number of replica locations, synchronization, number of queries per minute, and storage. Every client will have a different usage pattern. Overall, I would rate Cosmos DB a three out of five in terms of affordability. It is easy to over-provision, and it is easy to under-provision the solution.

AbhishekSingh11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2022-10-11T12:04:14Z
Oct 11, 2022

The RU's use case determines our license fees. It fluctuates based on how many RUs we have. It's not a fixed-line.

SaurabhSingh1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 10
2022-07-05T06:29:00Z
Jul 5, 2022

Azure is a pay as you go subscription. Each month you utilize the solution and at the end of the month, based upon your utilization, you will get a report and invoice. It depends on the architecture and the services being used, how they are deployed and what the stories are. It is variable.

KG
Real User
Top 20
2022-05-29T13:17:00Z
May 29, 2022

The cost very much depends on the task and on how much data is being processed and transferred.

FF
Real User
Top 20
2022-04-04T15:02:20Z
Apr 4, 2022

The price of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB could be a bit lower.

SK
Real User
2022-02-18T15:09:18Z
Feb 18, 2022

Cosmos DB is a PaaS, so there are no upfront costs for infrastructure. There are only subscriptions you pay for Azure and things like that. But it's a PaaS, so it's a subscription service. The license isn't perpetual, and the cost might seem expensive on its face, but you have to look at the upkeep for infrastructure and what you're saving.

Lakshman Nimmakayala - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2021-07-26T09:38:30Z
Jul 26, 2021

For the cloud, we don't pay for the license, but for the on-prem versions, we do pay.

KopanoRamaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2021-04-09T17:07:00Z
Apr 9, 2021

There is a licensing fee.

KS
Real User
2021-01-27T12:01:51Z
Jan 27, 2021

Cosmos should be cheaper. We actually intend to stop using it in the near future because the price is too high — and because of the stability issues.

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