Azure Virtual Desktop cost estimator
Get a realistic monthly range for your Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure in under a minute, based on how your team actually works.
How this estimate works
The estimator sizes shared (pooled) session hosts from your peak number of concurrent users and workload, or one dedicated desktop per user for power users. It uses approximate US East pay-as-you-go Azure list prices as of October 2026: about $0.384 per hour for an 8 vCPU host, $0.192 per hour for a 4 vCPU personal desktop, 30 GB of profile storage per user and 10% for networking, monitoring and backup.
Real costs vary with region, reservations or savings plans, application needs and profile size. Use this range for budgeting conversations, then validate it with the Azure pricing calculator and a short pilot. Read our Azure Virtual Desktop pricing guide for what drives each cost.