Map each REST operation to a price

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2024-08-29

This article helps you find the price of each REST operation that clients can execute against the Azure Blob Storage service.

Each request made by tools such as AzCopy or Azure Storage Explorer arrives to the service in the form of a REST operation. This is also true for a custom application that leverages an Azure Storage Client library. REST operations are not billed for requests with unsuccessful authentication. After an identity is authenticated, all operations and requests made by that identity are billed, including those that don’t succeed.

To determine the price of each operation, you must first determine how that operation is classified in terms of its type. That's because the pricing pages list prices only by operation type and not by each individual operation. Use the tables in this article as a guide.

Operation type of each Blob Storage REST operation

The following table maps each Blob Storage REST operation to an operation type.

The price of each type appears in the Azure Blob Storage pricing page.

Logged operation	REST API	Premium block blob	Standard general purpose v2	Standard general purpose v1
AbortCopyBlob	Abort Copy Blob	Other	Other	Write
SealBlob	Append Blob Seal	Write	Write	Write
AppendBlockThroughCopy	Append Block from URL	Write	Write	Write
AppendBlock	Append Block	Write	Write	Write
CopyBlobFromURL	Copy Blob from URL	Write	Write	Write
CopyBlob	Copy Blob	Write²	Write²	Write²
CreateContainer	Create Container	List and create container	List and create container	List and create container
DeleteBlob	Delete Blob	Free	Free	Other
DeleteContainer	Delete Container	Free	Free	Other
SetContainerServiceMetadata	Delete Immutability Policy	Other	Other	Other
FindBlobsByTags	Find Blobs by Tags in Container	List and create container	List and create container	List and create container
FindBlobsByTags	Find Blobs by Tags	List and create container	List and create container	List and create container
GetAccountInformation	Get Account Information	Other	Other	Read
GetBlobMetadata	Get Blob Metadata	Other	Other	Read
GetBlobProperties	Get Blob Properties	Other	Other	Read
GetBlobServiceProperties	Get Blob Service Properties	Other	Other	Read
GetBlobServiceStats	Get Blob Service Stats	Other	Other	Read
GetBlobTags	Get Blob Tags	Other	Other	Read
GetBlob	Get Blob	Read	Read	Read
GetBlockList	Get Block List	Other	Other	Read
GetContainerACL	Get Container ACL	Other	Other	Read
GetContainerMetadata	Get Container Metadata	Other	Other	Read
GetContainerProperties	Get Container Properties	Other	Other	Read
GetUserDelegationKey	Get User Delegation Key	Other	Other	Read
IncrementalCopyBlob	Incremental Copy Blob	Other	Other	Write
AcquireBlobLease	Lease Blob	Other	Other	Read
ReleaseBlobLease	Lease Blob	Other	Other	Read
RenewBlobLease	Lease Blob	Other	Other	Read
BreakBlobLease	Lease Blob	Other	Other	Write
ChangeBlobLease	Lease Blob	Other	Other	Write
AcquireContainerLease	Lease Container	Other	Other	Read
ReleaseContainerLease	Lease Container	Other	Other	Read
RenewContainerLease	Lease Container	Other	Other	Read
BreakContainerLease	Lease Container	Other	Other	Write
ChangeContainerLease	Lease Container	Other	Other	Write
ListBlobs	List Blobs	List and create container	List and create container	List and create container
ListContainers	List Containers	List and create container	List and create container	List and create container
BlobPreflightRequest	Preflight Blob Request	Other	Other	Read
PutBlobFromURL	Put Blob from URL	Write	Write	Write
PutBlob	Put Blob	Write	Write	Write
PutBlockFromURL	Put Block from URL	Write	Write	Write
PutBlockList	Put Block List	Write	Write	Write
PutBlock	Put Block	Write	Write	Write
QueryBlobContents	Query Blob Contents	Read¹	Read¹	N/A
RestoreContainer	Restore Container	List and create container	List and create container	List and create container
SetBlobExpiry	Set Blob Expiry	Other	Other	Write
SetBlobMetadata	Set Blob Metadata	Other	Other	Write
SetBlobProperties	Set Blob Properties	Other	Other	Write
SetBlobServiceProperties	Set Blob Service Properties	Other	Other	Write
SetBlobTags	Set Blob Tags	Other	Other	Write
SetBlobTier	Set Blob Tier (tier down)	Write	Write	N/A
SetBlobTier	Set Blob Tier (tier up)	Read	Read	N/A
SetBlobTier	Blob Batch (Set Blob Tier)	Other	Other	N/A
SetContainerACL	Set Container ACL	Other	Other	Write
SetContainerMetadata	Set Container Metadata	Other	Other	Write
SetContainerServiceMetadata	Set Immutability Policy	Other	Other	Other
SetContainerServiceMetadata	Set Legal Hold	Other	Other	Other
SnapshotBlob	Snapshot Blob	Other	Other	Read
UndeleteBlob	Undelete Blob	Write	Write	Write

¹ In addition to a read charge, charges are incurred for the Query Acceleration - Data Scanned, and Query Acceleration - Data Returned transaction categories that appear on the Azure Data Lake Storage pricing page.

² When the source object is in a different account, the source account incurs one transaction for each read request to the source object.

Operation type of each Data Lake Storage REST operation

The following table maps each Data Lake Storage REST operation to an operation type.

The price of each type appears in the Azure Data Lake Storage pricing page.

Logged Operation	REST API	Premium block blob	Standard general purpose v2
CreateFilesystem	Filesystem Create	Write	Write
DeleteFilesystem	Filesystem Delete	Free	Free
GetFilesystemProperties	Filesystem Get Properties	Other	Other
ListFilesystems	Filesystem List	Iterative Read	Iterative Read
SetFilesystemProperties	Filesystem Set Properties	Write	Write
CreatePathDir	Path Create	Write	Write
CreatePathFile	Path Create	Write	Write
RenamePathDir	Path Create	Write	Write
RenamePathFile	Path Create	Write	Write
DeleteDirectory	Path Delete	Free	Free
DeleteFile	Path Delete	Free	Free
GetFileProperties	Path Get Properties	Read	Read
GetPathAccessControl	Path Get Properties	Read	Read
GetPathStatus	Path Get Properties	Read	Read
LeaseFile	Path Lease	Other	Other
ListFilesystemDir	Path List	Iterative Read	Iterative Read
ListFilesystemFile	Path List	Iterative Read	Iterative Read
ReadFile	Path Read	Read	Read
AppendFile	Path Update	Write	Write
FlushFile	Path Update	Write	Write
SetFileProperties	Path Update	Write	Write
SetPathAccessControl	Path Update	Write	Write

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Operation type of each Blob Storage REST operation

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