Microsoft Sentinel Cost Estimator

Fast estimate of Sentinel, retention, archive, and SDL costs.

Company Profile

Template presets load baseline values. You can override any field.

Volume Growth Model

Ramp speeds activation. Annual change is year-over-year. Use negative values for decline.

Sentinel Pricing

Daily and monthly values are linked. Tier selection seeds both.

Retention

Set interactive and long-term retention. Use SDL to route connector data lake %.

Connector Mix

Use Connector Monthly GB % Filtered % to SDL
Filter and SDL are per-connector percentages.
Month Billable Sentinel GB/day Total Sentinel GB/day SDL GB/day Ingest $ Interactive $ Archive $ SDL $ Total $
Reference Links (use your tenant and region values)
- Microsoft Sentinel pricing: azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/microsoft-sentinel
- Azure Monitor Logs pricing (retention and archive): azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/monitor
- Professional profile: linkedin.com/in/andrewblumhardt
- Code profile: github.com/AndrewBlumhardt
- Use Sentinel settings and pricing page in your own workspace for final values.
Disclaimer: This calculator is an estimate based on implementation experience and practical patterns. It provides guidance only, has no guarantees, and should not be used as a contractual commitment. Always validate against official Microsoft documentation, tenant-specific configuration, and current regional pricing.