Sitecore 9.2 PaaS On Azure: A Hosting Price Breakdown

Fresh Look At Sitecore 9.2 On Azure PaaS

With the release of Sitecore 9.2 and the new infrastructure required for Cortex and Identity services (originally in 9.1), it seems like an excellent time to review the base-costs of spinning up Sitecore PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) on Azure. The default resource-sizing for Sitecore 9.2 has also been updated, so that’s an important piece to capture. It’s quite different from when we original went through this Azure pricing exercise on 9.0. **For Sitecore 10 XM hosting costs, click here.**

Ground Rules

To level set, let’s review exactly what we’ll cover in this post: - Bottom-line Azure reference pricing for Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large SKUs - Detailed breakdown of all resources - American (USD) and Canadian (CDN) pricing - There will be other costs in an Azure environment such of a log storing, secondary storage, back-ups, traffic which are not included here - Azure Search only, no Solr Search Stax pricing is included here. (With the detailed breakdown that should be easy math) - Traffic / performance estimates have been provided by Sitecore - Pricing is based on US East Region Hopefully this helps more organizations explore Sitecore PaaS on Azure by helping them get over the hump, remove some uncertainty and give them confidence for where their expectations should start, cost-wise.. This sizing is based on Sitecore 9.2 topologies and Sitecore ARM templates provided by Sitecore.

Sitecore 9.2 Azure Pricing Overview

This is the per-month pricing of each SKU based on (365 / 12) days in a month. Below find the detailed breakdown the resources per month for each SKU.

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Sitecore 9.2 SKU: Extra Small Pricing

Visits per month: 0 to 100,000

Extra Small - Price USD: $1,393.57/month

Extra Small - Price CAD: $1,701.34/month

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Sitecore 9.2 SKU: Small Pricing

Visits per month: 100,000 to 200,000

Small - Price USD: $1,598.55/month

Small - Price CAD: $1,951.00/month

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Sitecore 9.2 SKU: Medium Pricing

Visits per month: 200,000 to 1,000,000

Medium - Price USD: $2,824.15/month

Medium - Price CAD: $3,443.12/month

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Sitecore 9.2 SKU: Large Pricing

Visits per month: 1,000,000 to 5,000,000

Large - Price USD: $5,588.59/month

Large - Price CAD: $6,805.64/month

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Sitecore 9.2 SKU: Extra Large Pricing

Visits per month: 5,000,000 to 10,000,000

Extra Large - Price USD: $9,381.16/month

Extra Large - Price CAD: $11,423.33/month

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Conclusion

With this data, hopefully you feel more emboldened when deploying Sitecore on Azure. If you’re looking for more in-depth best practices, deployment help, scaling info, right-sizing your environments, optimizing spend - all that good stuff - please reach out to us at [email protected] or you can find me on LinkedIn, Twitter or Sitecore Slack (dancruickshank) and say hello. Thanks for reading!