Thanks for your interest in Azure ML! I am part of the product team and I am happy to answer any questions you have. Specifically on pricing, once the model is

Thanks for your interest in Azure ML! I am part of the product team and I am happy to answer any questions you have. Specifically on pricing, once the model is built using the Azure ML Studio, the deployed web service can be accessed by using the dev/test tier. The purpose of the dev/test tier is for you to play around with the web service and ensure that it is giving you the results you are expecting. Once you are satisfied with the results and plan to go into production then we have paid tiers starting at 100$ per month (Standard S1) which includes 100K API calls and 25 hours of compute. The exact plan you might need (S1,S2 or S3) depends on your application and the number of calls / compute it uses up. You can change / cancel plans at any time paying only for what you used. Here [1] is one case study of Track Revenue, a startup using Azure ML to optimize marketing offers for its customer’s campaigns. They are a member of the BizSpark program [2](mentioned earlier on this thread) at MS which offers startups a significant number of free azure credits that can be applied against any Azure service usage including Azure ML. Let me know if you have any further questions. You can reach me directly at roopalik@microsoft.com. [1] https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/this-maverick-moved-from-amazon-to-azure-and-boosted-customer-revenue-per-click-by-38-percent https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/this-maverick-mo... [2] https://bizspark.microsoft.com/ https://bizspark.microsoft.com/