Azure cost breakdown

Estimated monthly cost of every cloud service running this app

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Est. Azure total
~$117/mo
List price · South Central US
Per day
~$3.85
Azure services only
Per year
~$1,400
If left running 24/7
Plus usage-based
OpenAI
Billed per token (external)

☁️ Azure services in this deployment

Service SKU / tier Qty Est. $/mo
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Azure Kubernetes ServiceControl plane — temporal-ai-aks
 Free tierManaged control plane 1 $0
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Virtual Machine (AKS node)Worker node running all pods
 Standard_D2s_v62 vCPU · 8 GiB RAM 1 ~$70
💽
Managed DisksNode OS disk + PostgreSQL persistent volume
 Premium SSD~32 GiB OS + ~8 GiB data 2 ~$8
📦
Azure Container Registrytemporalaiacr87766 — app image
 Basic10 GiB included 1 ~$5
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Standard Load BalancerRoutes traffic to API, Grafana & ingress
 StandardFirst 5 rules + data 1 ~$18
🌐
Public IP addressesApp LB · Grafana LB · ingress-nginx LB
 Standard static~$3.65 each 3 ~$11
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Outbound data transferEgress bandwidth (internet)
 Pay-as-you-goFirst 100 GB/mo free — ~$3
🏷️
Azure DNS label*.cloudapp.azure.com hostname
 IncludedWith public IP 1 $0
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TLS certificateLet's Encrypt via cert-manager
 FreeAuto-renewed 1 $0
Estimated Azure total ~$117 / mo
$0 = free / included External = billed outside Azure ~ = approximate list price

🧠 External services (not billed by Azure)

Service Model / plan Pricing Est. $/mo
🤖
OpenAI APILLM content generation in the workflow
 GPT-4o~$2.50 / 1M input · ~$10 / 1M output tokens Per token usage
OpenAI is billed directly by OpenAI, not Azure. Cost depends entirely on how many reports you generate and their length. A single research report typically costs a few cents.
How to read this: figures are approximate pay-as-you-go list prices for the South Central US region and exclude taxes, free-tier credits (e.g. Visual Studio Enterprise), reservations, and Azure Hybrid Benefit. Actual cost varies with traffic, storage growth, and uptime.

Biggest lever: the AKS node VM (~$70/mo) dominates the bill. Stopping the cluster when idle, using a smaller/spot VM, or an Azure savings plan can reduce it significantly.

For exact, live numbers see Cost Management + Billing in the Azure Portal, or the Azure Pricing Calculator.