Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills --skill azure-pricinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-pricing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-pricing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-pricing/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-pricing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills/azure-pricing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00085 | $0.00690 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00345 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
azure-pricing 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Azure Security Pricing & Cost Estimation
Security services on Azure mix consumption-based (e.g., data ingestion, transactions) and per-resource/seat pricing. This skill helps reason about and estimate costs and identify optimisation levers. Always confirm current rates on official pricing pages.
When to use
Producing a cost estimate or optimising spend for a security solution.
Key cost drivers
- Microsoft Sentinel — Driven mainly by data ingestion (per GB) and retention. Use Commitment Tiers, route low-value logs to Auxiliary/Basic logs or ADX, and avoid duplicate ingestion.
- Defender for Cloud — Foundational CSPM is free; Defender plans are per-resource (e.g., per server/hour, per 10K transactions, per vCore). Enable plans where risk justifies.
- Microsoft Defender XDR / Purview / Entra ID P2 — Largely per-user licensing (E5 / add-ons) rather than consumption.
- Key Vault — Per-operation (secrets/keys/certs) and HSM pool charges (Managed HSM).
- Azure Firewall / Front Door / DDoS — Deployment + data processing charges.
Approach
- List components and identify which are consumption vs licensed.
- Estimate quantities — e.g., Sentinel daily GB, number of protected servers/resources.
- Use the Pricing Calculator to model the estimate; add it to the workload TCO.
- Apply optimisation — commitment tiers, log tiering, right-size Defender plan coverage, remove unused resources.
- Validate licensing — Confirm whether E5/add-ons already cover a capability before adding consumption cost.
Guardrails
- Pricing changes — always verify against the live pricing page and your agreement (EA/MCA/CSP).
- Sentinel ingestion is the most common cost surprise — plan log tiering up front.
- Don't disable needed protection purely for cost; optimise scope instead.
Example prompts
Estimate the cost of Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud for my environment.What are the main cost drivers for Microsoft security services?How do I optimise security spend across licensing and consumption?Help me budget for security ingestion and per-resource Defender plans.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 55 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 47aaf2d874de
azure-pricing is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinayaklatthe/microsoft-security-skills (173 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 690 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.
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