How to estimate costs of Container Apps?

Johnny 0

how to count the cost of using container apps? For example let's take CPU. In metrics all I have is CPU usage in some point of time. But how to count if I reached or exceeded free limit of 180,000 vCPU-seconds?

Prrudram-MSFT 24,546 Reputation points

2023-04-19T17:20:56.5233333+00:00

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2023-04-21T10:44:31.57+00:00

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Prrudram-MSFT 24,546 Reputation points

2023-04-18T06:06:06.91+00:00

Hello Johnny,

To calculate the cost of running your Azure Container App, you need to consider two types of charges, resource consumption and HTTP requests.

For resource consumption, you are charged for the number of resources allocated to your container app on a per-second basis, billed in vCPU-seconds and GiB-seconds. The first 180,000 vCPU-seconds and 360,000 GiB-seconds in each subscription per calendar month are free.

To determine if you have exceeded the free limit of 180,000 vCPU-seconds, you need to calculate the total vCPU-seconds used by your container app during the calendar month. You can do this by multiplying the number of seconds your container app was running by the number of vCPU cores allocated to it.

For example, if your container app were running for 10,000 seconds and was allocated 2 vCPU cores, the total vCPU-seconds used would be 20,000 (10,000 seconds x 2 vCPU cores). If you have exceeded the free limit, you will be charged for the additional vCPU-seconds used at the applicable rate. You can find more information on Azure Container Apps pricing and how to calculate costs in your account's currency on the Azure Container Apps Pricing

I hope this helps!

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Ruben Klink 0 Reputation points

2023-06-12T08:47:45.6133333+00:00

Will a Container App be limited to the amount of vCPU (0.5, 075, 1, 2, etc) and is the pricing based on the configured vCPUs? Or is this dynamic and is the configured vCPU is limit/cap?

The documentation says nothing about vCPUs but the configuration tool forces me to pick a vCPU/Memory combination.

Is there also a way to scale up the vCPU without the memory? Because the configurator forces a 2vCPU to 4GB of memory. But my application doesn't need that much memory. A 4 vCPU to 1GB would be a better fit.

Sylvain 216 Reputation points

2023-09-26T14:28:57.9+00:00

Hi,

@Prrudram-MSFT about this paragraph:

To determine if you have exceeded the free limit of 180,000 vCPU-seconds, you need to calculate the total vCPU-seconds used by your container app during the calendar month. You can do this by multiplying the number of seconds your container app was running by the number of vCPU cores allocated to it.

May I ask how can I calculate the number of seconds the container app is running? I had a look in the metrics but could not find this one.

I'm concerned about this because I can see in the cost management that my newly created app is already costing me some bucks, which I don't understand because I am supposed to have the first 180000 vCPU-seconds free, right?

Prrudram-MSFT 24,546 Reputation points

2023-09-26T14:32:29.82+00:00

The right way to debug this issue is to reach out to the Azure technical support team as this is costing you already. I would recommend you open an azure support case. If you don't have the ability to open a technical support ticket, please let me know and I can help you further with this.

Sylvain 216 Reputation points

2023-09-26T14:38:29.08+00:00

Thanks for your quick answer 😀

😭 Unfortunately I can't reach the Azure technical support team because my company has a subscription using a CSP program. That means we work with a T2 Reseller, which itself works with another company (named Crayon). I must admit I'm very confused 😥

Andrew Andriichuk 5 Reputation points

2024-02-17T12:44:21.11+00:00

You can do this by multiplying the number of seconds your container app was running by the number of vCPU cores allocated to it.

But where I can find that number of seconds? Also, you’ve mentioned only cpu resources, what about memory?
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