Difference between Azure Machine Learning Free & Paid versions

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning environment “democratizes” the mysterious art of data science. It exposes this art to the masses by means of an easy-to-use visual interface that requires literally no programming and only a browser to use - and it is free!

This table lists the features that the paid version has -

	Free	Standard
Azure Subscription	Not Required	Required
Max Number of Modules per Experiment	100	Unlimited
Max Experiment Duration	1 hour per experiment	Up to 7 days per experiment with a maximum of 24 hours per module
Max Storage Space	10 GB	Unlimited - BYO
Read Data from On-Premises SQL Preview	No	Yes
Execution / Performance	Single node	Multiple nodes
Production Web API	No	Yes
SLA	No	Yes,  99.95% availability of API transactions for Request Response Service (RRS), 99.9% availability of API transactions for Batch Execution Service (BES) and management APIs
Storage	Does not require or allow separate storage	Requires users to have an Azure storage account. Azure storage is billed separately.
Production ready?	No, only non-production workloads are supported. You can only operationalize machine learning models to staging API services. Intended for development and personal use only	Production version of Azure Machine Learning