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Plans and Billing in Azure Scheduler |
Plans and Billing in Azure Scheduler |
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Job collections are the billable entity in Azure Scheduler. Job collections contain a number of jobs and come in three plans – Free, Standard, and Premium – that are described below.
| Job Collection Plan | Max # of Jobs per Job Collection | Max Recurrence | Max Job Collections per Subscription | Limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 5 jobs per job collection | Once per hour. Cannot execute jobs more often than once an hour | A subscription is allowed up to 1 free job collection | Cannot use HTTP outbound authorization object |
| Standard | 50 jobs per job collection | Once per minute. Cannot execute jobs more often than once a minute | A subscription is allowed up to 100 standard job collections | Access to full feature set of Scheduler |
| P10 Premium | 50 jobs per job collection | Once per minute. Cannot execute jobs more often than once a minute | A subscription is allowed up to 10,000 P10 Premium job collections. Contact us for more. | Access to full feature set of Scheduler |
| P20 Premium | 1000 jobs per job collection | Once per minute. Cannot execute jobs more often than once a minute | A subscription is allowed up to 10,000 P20 Premium job collections. Contact us for more. | Access to full feature set of Scheduler |
You may upgrade or downgrade a job collection plan anytime among the Free, Standard, and Premium plans. However, when downgrading to a free job collection, the downgrade may fail for one of the following reasons:
- A free job collection already exists in the subscription
- A job in the job collection has a higher recurrence than allowed for jobs in free job collections. The maximum recurrence allowed in a free job collection is once per hour
- There are more than 5 jobs in the job collection
- A job in the job collection has an HTTP or HTTPS action that uses an HTTP outbound authorization object
Subscriptions are not charged for free job collections. If you have more than 100 standard job collections (10 standard billing units), then it's a better deal to have all job collections in the premium plan.
If you have one standard job collection and one premium job collection, you are billed one standard billing unit and one premium billing unit. The Scheduler service bills based on the number of active job collections that are set to either standard or premium; this is explained further in the next two sections.
A standard billable unit can include up to 10 standard job collections. Since a standard job collection can have up to 50 jobs per job collection, one standard billing unit allows a subscription to have up to 500 jobs – up to almost 22 million job executions per month.
If you have between 1 and 10 standard job collections, you'll be billed for 1 standard billing unit. If you have between 11 and 20 standard job collections, you'll be billed for 2 standard billing units. If you have between 21 and 30 standard job collections, you'll be billed for 3 standard billing units, and so on.
A P10 premium billable unit can include up to 10,000 P10 premium job collections. Since a P10 premium job collection can have up to 50 jobs per job collection, one premium billing unit allows a subscription to have up to 500,000 jobs – up to almost 22 billion job executions per month.
If you have between 1 and 10,000 premium job collections, you'll be billed for 1 P10 premium billing unit. If you have between 10,001 and 20,000 premium job collections, you'll be billed for 2 P10 premium billing units, and so on.
Thus, P10 premium job collections have the same functionality as the standard job collections but provide a price break in case your application requires a lot of job collections.
A P20 premium billable unit can include up to 5,000 P20 premium job collections. Since a P20 premium job collection can have up to 1,000 jobs per job collection, one premium billing unit allows a subscription to have up to 5,000,000 jobs – up to almost 220 billion job executions per month.
P20 premium job collections provides the same capabilities as P10 premium job collections but also supports a greater number jobs per job collection and a greater total number of jobs overall than P10 premium allowing you to have more scalability.
Job collections are always active unless your entire subscription has gone into some temporary disabled state due to billing issues. The only way to ensure that a job collection is not billed is to either set it to the Free plan or to delete the job collection.
Although you may disable all jobs within a job collection in a single operation, it does not change the billing status of the job collection – the job collection will still be billed. Similarly, empty job collections are considered active and will be billed.
For pricing details, please see Scheduler Pricing.
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