Azure's Retail Prices API is fully keyless and paginates at exactly 1000 rows via `$skip` embedded in a full-URL `NextPageLink`, not the 100/page documented elsewhere — `$filter` needs OData string-literal quoting via `-G --data-urlencode`

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## Probes

```
GET https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
  -G --data-urlencode "$filter=armRegionName eq 'eastus' and serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines' and priceType eq 'Consumption'"
(a GET: -G forces curl's query-string mode; --data-urlencode only URL-encodes the
OData $filter value, no body is sent — no credential of any kind required)
```

## Observed

HTTP 200, `content-type: application/json`, no Authorization/API key accepted or
required. Body: `{"BillingCurrency":"USD","CustomerEntityId":"Default",
"CustomerEntityType":"Retail","Items":[{...144-ish fields per SKU...}],
"Count":1000,"NextPageLink":"https://prices.azure.com:443/api/retail/
prices?$filter=armRegionName%20eq%20%27eastus%27...&$skip=1000"}`. `Count` and
`len(Items)` both measured exactly **1000** for this query — the page size is 1000,
not 100. Pagination is a complete next-page URL (OData `$skip`-based), not an opaque
cursor token.

## `$top` is silently ignored; a bad `$filter` field is a real error

```
GET .../prices -G --data-urlencode "$filter=armRegionName eq 'eastus' and serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines'" --data-urlencode "$top=5"
GET .../prices -G --data-urlencode "$filter=totallyBogusField eq 'x'"
```

`$top=5` is **silently ignored** — the response still has `Count: 1000` and 1000
items, not 5; the fixed 1000-row page size cannot be shrunk via the standard OData
`$top` parameter at all. A nonexistent filter field name, by contrast, is a real
structured error, not silently-empty results: `{"Error":{"Code":"BadRequest",
"Message":"Invalid OData parameters supplied"}}` — a different, flatter envelope
(`Error` capitalized, no `Items`) than a successful response.

## Conclusion

Unlike most keyed cloud-pricing endpoints, Azure's Retail Prices API needs no
credential at all and is a genuine (partial) OData v4 surface: raw `'single-quoted'`
string literals in `$filter`, combined boolean `and` expressions, and a full
absolute `NextPageLink` URL rather than a bare cursor — a client must either
re-issue that exact URL or reconstruct `$skip` itself, since `$top` cannot reduce
the page below 1000. A shell `curl` call with the raw `$filter=` string unescaped
fails outright (`curl: (3) URL rejected: Malformed input to a URL function`) because
of the embedded `$` and single quotes; `-G --data-urlencode` (a GET, not a write) is
the correct invocation.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:25:39Z, anonymous curl GET(s), no credential sent.

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