Configure pricing and availability for a virtual machine offer
On this pane, you configure:
Markets where this plan is available. Every plan must be available in at least one market .
The price per hour.
Whether to make the plan visible to everyone or only to specific customers (a private audience).
Pricing
For the License model, select Usage-based monthly billed plan to configure pricing for this plan, or "Bring your own license" to let customers use this plan with their existing license.
For a usage-based monthly billed plan, Azure will charge the customer for their hourly usage, and they are billed monthly. This is our Standard Pay-in-Advance Offer plan, where customers are only billed for the hours that they've used. When you select this plan, choose one of the following pricing options:
- Free - Your VM offer is free.
Hide plan
A hidden plan is not visible on Azure Marketplace and can only be deployed through another Solution Template, Managed Application, Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. Hiding a plan is useful when trying to limit exposure to customers that would normally be searching or browsing for it directly via Azure Marketplace. By selecting this checkbox all virtual machine images associated with your plan will be hidden from Azure Marketplace storefront.
Note
A hidden plan is different from a private plan. When a plan is publicly available but hidden, it is still available for any Azure customer to deploy via Solution Template, Managed Application, Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell. However, a plan can be both hidden and private in which case only the customers configured in the private audience can deploy via these methods. If you wish to make the plan available to a limited set of customers, then set the plan to Private.
Important
Hidden plans don't generate preview links. However, you can test them by following these steps.