Azure Pipelines "No hosted parallelism has been purchased"

The pipeline could not run on Microsoft-hosted agents because the organization has no hosted parallelism, which new orgs must request as a free grant.

What this error means

The run fails immediately with "No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted" and a link to request free parallelism. No job starts.

##[error]No hosted parallelism has been purchased or granted.
To request a free parallelism grant, please fill out the following form

Common causes

New org without a free grant

Microsoft now requires new organizations to request the free Microsoft-hosted parallelism grant before hosted jobs run.

No purchased parallel jobs

The org has no paid parallel jobs and no grant.

How to fix it

Request or purchase parallelism

1. Submit the free parallelism grant request form linked in the error.
2. Or buy Microsoft-hosted parallel jobs under Organization settings > Parallel jobs.

Use a self-hosted pool meanwhile

1. Point the pipeline at a self-hosted agent pool, which does not consume hosted parallelism.

pool: self-hosted-linux

How to prevent it

• Request the parallelism grant when creating a new organization; this is an entitlement/config gate, not a transient failure, so retrying will not help.

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