cost-estimation
cost-estimation is an agent skill published by microsoft. It lives in the microsoft/skills repository, which has 3,148 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-25.
This tool forecasts Azure spending by estimating the cost of planned resources or workloads, comparing different pricing tiers and regions, and using retail, EA, and negotiated prices.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads microsoft/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add microsoft/skills
Maintenance
Forecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads. WHEN: \"forecast Azure spending\", \"project next month cost\", \"compare forecast to my planning target\", \"how much will Azure cost\", \"estimate VM cost\", \"compare storage tiers\", \"compare Azure regions\", \"retail price\", \"EA rate card\", \"negotiated pricesheet\". DO NOT USE FOR: configured budget health or alerts, bill analysis, cost spikes, rightsizing, or commitments.
Common questions about cost-estimation
- What does cost-estimation do?
- This tool forecasts Azure spending by estimating the cost of planned resources or workloads, comparing different pricing tiers and regions, and using retail, EA, and negotiated prices.
- How do I install cost-estimation?
- Run npx skills add microsoft/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes cost-estimation?
- microsoft.
- Is cost-estimation maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,148 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.