If I disable Agents in Azure pipelines, would Azure still charge me for parallel pipelines set in billing?

Question

I purchased 5 parallel pipelines but after the purchase, I go to the Agent Pools section and disabled 2 Agents. Not sure if Azure will still be charging me for 5 pipelines or just 3 enabled Agents. Can anyone confirm?

Not sure if I need to reduce the number of parallel jobs in billing to 3 or I will be billed just for 3 active Agents.

Answer 1

Jessehouwing is right. You will be charged for the parallel job based on the days you used it during the billing cycle. You could arrange your Paid Parallel jobs number in billing page dynamically based on your daily workload.

According to this document for Purchasing Parallel Jobs, you will be charged by Paid jobs number in pic below. Disabling the agent machine from agent pool could not stop it from being charged. When you disable the agent, you are just prevent the parallel job from being used, the only method to stop being charged for parallel job is cutting off the Paid parallel jobs in billing page.

If you have concern on the expense of parallel jobs. You could check the Service Pricing for your parallel jobs allocation.

Answer 2

You will be charged for the number of agents even when they are set to disabled. You need to change the number of agents in the billing section.

https://dev.azure.com/{{organization}}/_settings/billing

You will be charged to the end of the billing cycle if you lower the number.