Updated: May 31, 2023 (October 3, 2022)

Purchasing and Tracking Azure DevOps

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Azure DevOps, which hosts services for software development, employs per-user subscription and consumption billing across its features.
Required features can vary across development team members, so organizations can optimize costs by purchasing only what is needed and tracking such purchases.
Visual Studio and MSDN Platforms subscriptions include Azure DevOps plans, which organizations should consider when estimating costs.

Azure DevOps, a hosted service that offers application life-cycle management tools, is charged on a per-user subscription basis for some features and on a cross-user consumption basis for others. Certain use of the service is free.

Azure DevOps Components

Azure DevOps is a set of Microsoft-hosted software development services. Customers can use any subset of the services, and they work with non-Microsoft technologies such as Linux, macOS, and various development frameworks and programming languages. The offering overlaps with GitHub, which is gaining capabilities at a faster rate and will likely eventually supplant Azure DevOps.

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