Any type of operation against the storage is counted as a transaction, including reads, writes, and deletes.

It takes 2000 transactions to delete 1000 entities.

Explore in Azure Monitoring

You can observe this in Azure Monitor, try deleting a

How much does it cost?

With entity groups

Trivia: You can icnclude up to 100 entities in an entity group transaction.

Caveat

This is as per 17th june 2020