Azure Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps is a managed integration platform for automating workflows, connecting data, and coordinating processes across cloud and on-premises environ…
What Azure Logic Apps is
Azure Logic Apps is a managed integration platform for automating workflows, connecting data, and coordinating processes across cloud and on-premises environments. A visual designer, prebuilt templates, and organizational templates support building and reusing workflows. The platform includes more than 1,400 prebuilt connectors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, SAP, and IBM Mainframe, and users can create custom connectors. Workflows can be extended with Python, .NET, PowerShell, or JavaScript and developed locally in Visual Studio Code. An Automated Test Framework supports mocked actions and workflow assertions. For B2B and EDI work, built-in operations handle large payloads and formats such as EDIFACT, X12, AS2, RosettaNet, and SWIFT. Workflows can also coordinate AI agents, while built-in Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors support AI-driven workflows. Consumption runs in multi-tenant Azure and meters triggers, actions, and connector executions; Standard offers single-tenant hosting for multiple stateful and stateless workflows. Hybrid deployment runs workflows on customer-managed infrastructure. Azure offers a free trial for up to 30 days.
Good
- More than 1,400 prebuilt connectors, with custom connectors supported.
- Visual designer and templates support workflow reuse.
- Supports major B2B and EDI formats.
- Workflows can be built and debugged locally in Visual Studio Code.
- Hybrid deployment runs on customer-managed infrastructure.
Watch out
- Consumption meters triggers, actions, and connector executions.
- Stateful Standard workflows may incur Azure Storage transaction charges.
Who it suits
It suits teams connecting systems and automating processes across cloud and on-premises environments, including organizations with B2B/EDI or AI workflow needs. Developers who want to extend workflows with code or work locally in Visual Studio Code may also find its tools relevant.
Verdict
Azure Logic Apps combines visual workflow authoring with extensive connectors, code extensions, and deployment choices. Buyers should compare Consumption metering, Standard hosting-plan pricing, and Hybrid infrastructure needs before choosing an approach.
Plans and prices
From Azure Logic Apps's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Consumption | Priced on request | 4,000 actions |
| Consumption | — | 4,000 actions |
| Standard | Priced on request | Single-tenant Azure hosting · Multiple stateful and stateless workflows · Hosting-plan pricing |
| Standard | — | Single-tenant Azure hosting · Multiple stateful and stateless workflows · Hosting-plan pricing |
| Hybrid | Priced on request | Customer-managed infrastructure · On-premises, private-cloud, or public-cloud infrastructure · Azure Logic Apps runtime hosted through an Azure Container Apps extension |
| Hybrid | — | Customer-managed infrastructure · On-premises, private-cloud, or public-cloud infrastructure · Azure Logic Apps runtime hosted through an Azure Container Apps extension |
| Enterprise connector | Free | Connector calls metered separately from action executions · per call |
| Consumption actions | Free | First 4,000 actions free · $0.000025 per additional action · $0.12/GB-month data retention · per execution after first 4,000 actions |
| Standard connector | Free | Connector calls metered separately from action executions · per call |
| Integration Account Basic | $0.42 a month | 1 EDI agreement · 2 trading partners · 500 maps · 500 schemas · 25 assemblies · 2 certificates · 1 batch configuration · per hour |
| Integration Account Standard | $1.37 a month | 1,000 EDI agreements · 1,000 trading partners · 1,000 maps · 1,000 schemas · 1,000 assemblies · 1,000 certificates · 50 batch configurations · per hour |
| Logic Apps Hybrid Deployment Model | — | vCPU pricing · workflows run on customer-managed infrastructure · Usage-based; current pricing table displays $-. |
| Consumption (multi-tenant) | — | First 4,000 actions free · triggers, actions, and connector executions are metered · Pay as you go; usage charges apply per execution. |
| Standard (single-tenant) | — | Workflow Service Plan · App Service Environment plan · stateful workflows may incur Azure Storage transaction charges · Hosting plan pricing; price depends on the selected plan and resources. |
The facts
Each one read from Azure Logic Apps's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI integration
- Official materials describe Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors for AI workflows and retrieval-augmented generation scenarios.checked 15 Oct 2026
- AI integrations
- Built-in Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors support AI-driven workflows, and Foundry Agent Service provides access to models, agent catalogs, and tools such as Python Code Interpreter.checked 12 Oct 2026
- AI orchestration
- Workflows can orchestrate AI agents that act autonomously, collaborate conversationally, or operate on behalf of people, with multi-agent handoffs and nested hierarchies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API and automation
- Microsoft lists REST API, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell references for managing Logic Apps.checked 15 Oct 2026
- B2B and EDI
- Integration accounts support trading partners, agreements, schemas and maps for EDI and EAI formats such as AS2, EDIFACT, X12 and RosettaNet.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Code and testing
- Workflows can be extended with Python, .NET, PowerShell, or JavaScript and validated with an Automated Test Framework that supports mocked actions and workflow assertions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Connector library
- Microsoft advertises more than 1,400 prebuilt connectors, including Salesforce, SAP, Office 365, Azure and SQL Server, and says custom connectors can be created.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Connectors
- The product provides more than 1,400 prebuilt connectors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, SAP, and IBM Mainframe, and users can create their own.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Custom code
- Standard workflows can run JavaScript, .NET, C# scripts and PowerShell code.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Custom connector limitation
- Hybrid deployments require outbound connectivity for Azure management and cloud-hosted managed connectors, so they are partially connected rather than air-gapped.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Delivery semantics
- The service delivers messages at least once, so workflows that cannot tolerate duplicates must implement idempotence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Developer tooling
- Visual Studio Code supports local authoring for Consumption workflows on Windows, Linux and macOS.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Development
- Developers can build, test, debug, and run workflows locally in Visual Studio Code.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Microsoft documentation covers concepts, tutorials, B2B integration, custom code, security, testing, deployment, service limits, CLI, PowerShell and REST API reference.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting distinction
- Consumption workflows run in multi-tenant Azure and each logic app resource can contain one workflow; Standard workflows run single-tenant and a resource can contain multiple stateful and stateless workflows.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting options
- Consumption workflows run in multitenant Azure, while Standard workflows run in single-tenant hosting, App Service Environment v3 or hybrid environments.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- Microsoft states that it was founded in 1975.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- Microsoft's global headquarters are in Redmond, Washington.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The product maker is Microsoft Corporation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- Microsoft reported approximately 228,000 full-time employees as of June 30, 2025.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1975checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Redmond, Washington, USAchecked 23 Sep 2026
Money
- Free Azure offer
- The product page says users can pay as they go or try Azure free for up to 30 days.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
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