qa-azure-subscriptions-for-billing.md

Q: Which Azure subscriptions can I link to my organization and use for billing?

A: You can use an Azure subscription that's not the following:

• An Azure Free Trial
• A free Azure AD subscription

If you have one of these subscriptions, set up a separate Pay-As-You-Go Azure subscription instead.

Important for Visual Studio subscribers and Visual Studio Dev Essentials members:

• You can't use monthly credits for Visual Studio subscriptions or monthly credits for Visual Studio Dev Essentials to pay for Azure DevOps purchases. You can still use these types of Azure subscriptions for billing, but the monthly credits won't apply, so your credit card will be billed for charges instead.

• Before you use these Azure subscriptions for billing, you must remove their default spending limit indefinitely.

  This prevents disabling your Azure subscription when your monthly charges are billed the next month. Otherwise, all resources billed to this subscription will be suspended, including Azure DevOps purchases, Visual Studio Marketplace purchases, and Azure resources.

  

  If you have Administrator permissions for your subscription, remove the spending limit by visiting the Azure Account Center:

  1. Sign in to Azure Account Center (Account > subscriptions).
  2. Select your Azure subscription.
  3. Remove your spending limit indefinitely.