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Table 3 Example of IoT hub pricing tiers

From: Towards remote healthcare monitoring using accessible IoT technology: state-of-the-art, insights and experimental design

 

Tier

Monthly cost

Messages/day

Meter size (KB)

Azure

Free tier

$0

8000

0.5

Basic tier 1 (B1)

$10

400,000

4

Basic tier 2 (B2)

$50

6,000,000

4

Basic tier 3 (B3)

$500

300,000,000

4

Standard tier 1 (S1)

$25

400,000

4

Standard tier 2 (S2)

$250

6,000,000

4

Standard tier 3 (S3)

$2500

300,000,000

4

 

Monthly messages

Pricea

Meter size (KB)

Connection costb

AWS

< 1 billion

$1

5

$0.08

1–5 billion

$0.80

5

$0.08

More than 5 billion

$0.70

5

$0.08

 

Data usage

Price/MB

Minimum charge (bytes)

 

GCP

Up to 250 MB

$0.00

1024

 

250 MB to 250 GB

$0.0045

1024

 

250 GB to 5 TB

$0.0020

1024

 

5 TB and above

$0.00045

1024

 
  1. Data relating to tiers, pricing and message quotas was obtained from the pricing pages of Microsoft Azure [72], Amazon Web Services [73] and Google cloud platform [74] on 17 July 2020
  2. aPer million messages
  3. bPer million minutes