azure-cost

azure-cost is a command for Claude Code from WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins. It costs 29 tokens per session (542 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only cost review for one Azure subscription. It combines Azure Advisor recommendations, public retail prices, and quota information to explain likely savings and right-sizing options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for monthly cost reviews, pre-QBR preparation, investigating expensive subscriptions, and assessing idle resources, underused virtual machines, or reservation options.
Why use it?
It turns a vague question about high Azure costs into a ranked list of possible causes and configuration changes, without modifying resources.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the azure-mcp plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it for monthly cost reviews, pre-QBR preparation, investigating expensive subscriptions, and assessing idle resources, underused virtual machines, or reservation options.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/wyre-ai/msp-claude-plugins/azure-cost
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 agent.

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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 542 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00029 $0.00542
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00271
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00054

Measured 6d ago against content hash 489121367966, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-cost scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

msp-claude-plugins/azure-mcp/azure-mcp/commands/azure-cost.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Cost Analysis

Produces a read-only cost picture for a single Azure subscription. Suitable for monthly cost reviews, pre-QBR prep, right-sizing investigations, and "why is this subscription expensive?" questions.

This command is read-only — it analyzes and recommends; it never changes resources, SKUs, or reservations.

Arguments

  • subscription (required) — Azure subscription ID or display name to analyze
  • detail (optional) — summary (default) — top findings and estimated savings; full — every recommendation and price; executive — client-facing cost summary

What it does

  1. Scope — resolve the subscription via the subscription namespace; confirm it is Enabled.
  2. Advisor cost recommendations — pull advisor recommendations filtered to the Cost category, sorted by impact (High first) and estimated annual savings. These are the concrete optimization opportunities: idle resources, underutilized VMs, reservation/savings-plan candidates.
  3. Retail pricing — for the SKUs implicated in the recommendations (or SKUs the user asks about), look up retail meter rates via the pricing namespace to quantify the spread between current and recommended configurations.
  4. Capacity signal — optionally check quota headroom; quotas near their limit hint at over-provisioning or imminent scaling cost.

Detail levels

  • summary (default): top cost recommendations, estimated total savings, one-line cost verdict
  • full: every Advisor cost recommendation with affected resources, plus the retail price for each relevant SKU
  • executive: plain-language cost summary suitable for a client-facing email — savings framed in currency, not SKU jargon

Important caveats

  • Retail pricing is list price — not the customer's EA/CSP/MCA-discounted rate and not actual billed consumption. Present figures as estimates and state the currency and region.
  • This command cannot apply any recommendation — resizing, deleting idle resources, or buying reservations are write operations outside this read-only connector. Report the opportunity and hand off to a write-capable path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 39 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 489121367966

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azure-cost is a command published in the GitHub repository WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 542 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.