Hyperscaler · Redmond, WA
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud; GPUs are sold as N-series virtual machines (NC, ND, NV, NG) billed per second at pay-as-you-go, Spot, savings-plan and 1/3/5-year reserved rates, across 57 public regions.
GPU types14with a current offer
Current offers318320 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from$11.06per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.34cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries3240 named regions
Trust Score v0.181/100
- Company & track record27
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency100
- Reliability signals75
- Security & compliance100
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
27 / 100
| Founding year published | not disclosedazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | not disclosedazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | not disclosedazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Operated by Microsoft (pages carry a '(c) Microsoft 2026' footer); corporate details were not captured from a primary source in this study.azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacityazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 40 regions or countriesazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | metered: first 100 GB/month free, then 0.087 USD/GB (next 10 TB) down to 0.05 USD/GB from North America/Europe via Microsoft network; 0.08 to 0.04 USD/GB via routing-preference ISP network; inter-region 0.02 USD/GB within North America/Europeazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | A VM in 'Stopped (allocated)' state is billed as running; 'Stopped (deallocated)' is not billed for compute, but managed disks and networking resources (e.g. static public IPs) keep incurring charges.azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | extra: Standard static public IPv4 0.005 USD/hour (Basic ARM static 0.0036 USD/hour; dynamic 0.004 USD/hour)azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
75 / 100
| Status page | https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/statusazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | 99.95% for two or more VMs in an availability set (Learn); Spot VMs carry no SLA. Single-VM SLA figure not captured.azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | 99.95% for two or more VMs in an availability set (Learn); Spot VMs carry no SLA. Single-VM SLA figure not captured.azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | not disclosedazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
100 / 100
| SOC 2 | Type IIazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 8 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | ouiazure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | yes (HIPAA listed among Azure compliance offerings)azure.microsoft.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Market report · Oct 25, 2026 · Hyperscalers and general clouds · #2 of the 200 to audit · prices read on the provider's pageWhat the market report notes about Microsoft Azure
Our internal report lists 248 actors with their zone, segment, status and the prices it could read, dated Oct 25, 2026. Its notes are reproduced as written, in French, with their sources.
- Listed as
- Microsoft Azure
- Cross-checkfr
- ND H100 v5 ≈ 12,29 $/GPU-h (11–13 $ selon cast.ai ; ≈ 5,40 $ selon GMI Cloud : conflit) ; spot H100 1,29 $.
Prices by GPU · 10 GPU types with a current offerWhat Microsoft Azure charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 | $11.06 | $3.17 | +249% | 4 | on-demandspot | H100 prices |
| A100 80GB | $3.67 | $1.99 | +85% | 8 | on-demandspot | A100 80GB prices |
| H200 | $10.60 | $4.76 | +123% | 2 | on-demandspot | H200 prices |
| T4 | $0.34 | $0.51 | −33% | 8 | on-demandspot | T4 prices |
| A100 40GB | $3.40 | $1.98 | +72% | 2 | spoton-demand | A100 40GB prices |
| Tesla V100 32GB | $2.75 | $2.48 | +11% | 2 | spoton-demand | Tesla V100 32GB prices |
| Tesla V100 16GB | $3.06 | $1.71 | +79% | 8 | spoton-demand | Tesla V100 16GB prices |
| MI300X | $6.00 | $2.71 | +121% | 2 | spoton-demand | MI300X prices |
| H100 NVL | $6.98 | $3.94 | +77% | 4 | spoton-demand | H100 NVL prices |
| A10 | $3.20 | $1.35 | +136% | 6 | on-demandspot | A10 prices |
All offers · 320 readings on fileEvery Microsoft Azure offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T4 | 1× T4 | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.07 | $0.07 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 1× T4 | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.10 | $0.10 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 4× T4 | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.14 | $0.14 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 1× T4 | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.16 | $0.16 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 1× T4 | On-demand | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.34 | $0.34 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 1× T4 | On-demand | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.49 | $0.49 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 32GB | 8× Tesla V100 32GB | Spot | Netherlands +2 | Stock unknown | $0.51 | $0.51 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GBoutlier · suspended | 2× Tesla V100 16GB | Spot | Australia +15 | Stock unknown | $0.57 | $0.57 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GBoutlier · suspended | 4× Tesla V100 16GB | Spot | Australia +15 | Stock unknown | $0.57 | $0.57 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GBoutlier · suspended | 1× Tesla V100 16GB | Spot | Australia +15 | Stock unknown | $0.57 | $0.57 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A10 | 1× A10 | Spot | UAE +23 | Stock unknown | $0.59 | $0.59 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A10 | 2× A10 | Spot | UAE +23 | Stock unknown | $0.60 | $0.60 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GBoutlier · suspended | 4× Tesla V100 16GB | Spot | Australia +15 | Stock unknown | $0.62 | $0.62 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 4× A100 80GB | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.68 | $0.68 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 2× A100 80GB | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.68 | $0.68 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB | Spot | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.68 | $0.68 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 40GB | 8× A100 40GB | Spot | Italy +2 | Stock unknown | $0.68 | $0.68 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 4× T4 | On-demand | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.71 | $0.71 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| T4 | 1× T4 | On-demand | Australia +17 | Stock unknown | $0.79 | $0.79 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 8× A100 80GB | Spot | UAE +17 | Stock unknown | $0.82 | $0.82 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A10 | 1× A10 | Spot | UAE +23 | Stock unknown | $0.84 | $0.84 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| MI300X | 8× MI300X | Spot | UAE +10 | Stock unknown | $1.11 | $1.11 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100 NVLNVL | 2× H100 NVL NVL | Spot | UAE +14 | Stock unknown | $1.40 | $1.40 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100 NVLNVL | 1× H100 NVL NVL | Spot | UAE +14 | Stock unknown | $1.40 | $1.40 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 8× H100 SXM | Spot | UAE +8 | Stock unknown | $2.04 | $2.04 | 21:08 UTCfresh | Receipt |
46 fresh offers · the 25 cheapest shown here, all of them in the comparison tool · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per second
- Minimum charge
- not published
- Stopped instance
- A VM in 'Stopped (allocated)' state is billed as running; 'Stopped (deallocated)' is not billed for compute, but managed disks and networking resources (e.g. static public IPs) keep incurring charges.
- Egress
- metered: first 100 GB/month free, then 0.087 USD/GB (next 10 TB) down to 0.05 USD/GB from North America/Europe via Microsoft network; 0.08 to 0.04 USD/GB via routing-preference ISP network; inter-region 0.02 USD/GB within North America/Europe
- Public IPv4
- extra: Standard static public IPv4 0.005 USD/hour (Basic ARM static 0.0036 USD/hour; dynamic 0.004 USD/hour)
- Billing model
- postpaid invoice
- Minimum deposit
- not published
- Free credits
- Free account: 200 USD credit to use within 30 days (new customers only); GPU sizes such as NCv3 are not available to trial subscriptions.
Account
- Payment
- card · invoice · crypto (not published)
- Sign-up
- email, phone, card, country/region, first and last name
- Identity check
- card verification
- Support
- ticket, email, phone, chat, Microsoft Q&A
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- 99.95% for two or more VMs in an availability set (Learn); Spot VMs carry no SLA. Single-VM SLA figure not captured.
- Status page
- azure.status.microsoft ↗
- Published uptime
- not published
Infrastructure
- Regions
40 named regions in 32 countries
East US (eastus) (United States) · East US 2 (eastus2) (United States) · Central US (centralus) (United States) · North Central US (northcentralus) (United States) · South Central US (southcentralus) (United States) · West Central US (westcentralus) (United States) · West US (westus) (United States) · West US 2 (westus2) (United States) · West US 3 (westus3) (United States) · Canada Central (Canada) · Canada East (Canada) · Mexico Central (Mexico) · Brazil South (Brazil) · Brazil Southeast (Brazil) · Chile Central (Chile) · North Europe (Ireland) · West Europe (Netherlands) · UK South (United Kingdom) · UK West (United Kingdom) · France Central (France) · France South (France) · Germany West Central (Germany) · Germany North (Germany) · Switzerland North (Switzerland) · Switzerland West (Switzerland) · Norway East (Norway) · Norway West (Norway) · Sweden Central (Sweden) · Denmark East (Denmark) · Poland Central (Poland) · Italy North (Italy) · Spain Central (Spain) · Austria East (Austria) · Belgium Central (Belgium) · UAE North (United Arab Emirates) · UAE Central (United Arab Emirates) · Qatar Central (Qatar) · Israel Central (Israel) · South Africa North (South Africa) · South Africa West (South Africa) …- Countries
- United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand
- Platform
- api, cli, ssh, persistent_volumes, snapshots, spot_or_interruptible · SDK : — · Terraform : official · Kubernetes : managed · interconnexion : ND H100 v5: NVLink 4.0 in-VM plus 400 Gb/s Quantum-2 CX7 InfiniBand per GPU (3.2 Tb/s per VM) · ND/NDm A100 v4: 200 Gb/s HDR InfiniBand per GPU (1.6 Tb/s per VM) · clusters : ND-series VMs in the same Virtual Machine Scale Set are connected over InfiniBand · Microsoft states ND H100 v5 deployments scale to thousands of GPUs. Azure Kubernetes Service is offered as a separate managed product.
- Storage
- volume · Premium SSD v2: 0.081 USD/GiB-month capacity (3,000 IOPS and 125 MB/s included) · East US; extra IOPS 0.0052 USD/IOPS-month, extra throughput 0.041 USD/MB/s-monthvolume · Premium SSD P30 (1 TiB): 122.88 USD/month; P10 (128 GiB): 17.92 USD/month · East US, LRS, fixed tiersvolume · Standard SSD E30 (1 TiB): 76.80 USD/month; Standard HDD S30 (1 TiB): 40.96 USD/month · East US, LRS; transaction charges apply on topobject · Disk snapshots: 0.05 USD/GB-month (Standard LRS or ZRS) · Incremental snapshots billed on deltaephemeral · included · Temporary/local NVMe disk included in the VM price (e.g. 28,000 GiB on ND96isr H100 v5); data does not persist on deallocation
- Migration out
- Managed disks can be snapshotted (0.05 USD/GB-month) and exported; images can be captured into Azure Compute Gallery. Moving data out incurs internet egress (0.087 USD/GB after the first 100 GB/month from North America/Europe). Deallocate VMs to stop compute charges; delete disks and public IPs to stop all charges.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- oui
- HIPAA
- yes (HIPAA listed among Azure compliance offerings)
- GDPR / DPA
- yes (EU GDPR listed among compliance offerings)
- Other
- SOC 1, SOC 3, ISO 27017/27018/27701/22301/9001, CSA STAR, FedRAMP, DoD IL2-IL6, Germany C5, France HDS, PCI and many sector and national frameworks listed
- Legal entity
- not published
- Funding
- Operated by Microsoft (pages carry a '(c) Microsoft 2026' footer); corporate details were not captured from a primary source in this study.
GPUBank market study, read on the provider's own pages · 48 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
From the study · assessmentMicrosoft Azure, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- Widest GPU range in the study set: GB200, H200, H100 SXM, H100 NVL, MI300X, A100 (three variants), RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, A10, T4, V100 plus AMD V710/V620/MI25 and NVIDIA M60 graphics GPUs
- GB300 (ND GB300 v6, 4x Blackwell Ultra 288GB per VM) documented on Microsoft Learn
- Per-second billing on pay-as-you-go; Spot, 1/3-year savings plans and 1/3-year (5-year for ND H100 v5) reservations
- Fractional GPU sizes (1/6 A10, 1/4 RTX PRO 6000, 1/6 V710) for small inference and VDI workloads, from 0.333 USD/h (NV4ads V710 v5, eastus)
- ND-series VMs with 400 Gb/s InfiniBand per GPU for multi-node training
- 57 public regions in 32 countries/territories, published retail price API with exact per-SKU prices
- SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP and a long list of compliance attestations
Weaknesses
- H100 SXM on-demand is 12.29 USD/GPU-h (ND96isr H100 v5, 98.32 USD/h per 8-GPU VM, eastus); no single-GPU H100 SXM size
- GB200 at 27.04 USD/GPU-h on-demand (108.16 USD/h per 4-GPU VM) and the API lists the same figure as the Spot price
- H200 and MI300X are not priced in eastus; H200 is 10.60 USD/GPU-h and MI300X 6.00 USD/GPU-h in eastus2
- Egress metered beyond 100 GB/month (0.087 USD/GB first tier), public IPv4 billed separately (0.005 USD/h static Standard), disks billed separately
- Technical support requires a paid plan from 29 USD/month
- No crypto payment; virtual and prepaid cards are not accepted; wire transfer requires six months as customer and approval
- Some GPU series need a vCPU quota increase before use (NCv3 quota starts at 0 per region and is unavailable to trial subscriptions)
Ideal for
- Enterprises already on Microsoft contracts that need compliance attestations, private networking and many regions
- Large multi-node training on ND H100/H200/GB200 with InfiniBand and reserved terms
- VDI, rendering and light inference that fits fractional GPUs
Not published
- GB300 (ND GB300 v6) has no price in the Retail Prices API (query returned zero items)
- listed in the catalogue without price
- RTX PRO 6000 v6 sizes present in the API but not on the pricing page or Learn page (NC8/16/32/64/128/132/256/264/320/324 ds/lds_xl) were not recorded because their GPU fraction is not published
- Per-size GPU fraction for NCads A10 v4, NVv4 (MI25) and NGads V620 not read on a size page, so those prices are not normalised per GPU
- Single-instance VM SLA percentages were not captured (the SLA page timed out
- only the 99.95% availability-set figure was read on Learn)
- Company legal name, headquarters and founding year not captured from a primary page
- Whether GPU sizes in general require a quota request for new pay-as-you-go subscriptions is only stated for NCv3 in the captured docs
- Reserved-instance hourly equivalents assume 8,760 / 26,280 / 43,800 hours per 1 / 3 / 5-year term
- Microsoft publishes the term total
Observations
Linux VM pricing page shows prices without an account, filterable by region, OS, category (GPU) and VM series; default display is per month (730 h basis) with a toggle to per hour
Captured page defaulted to East US; per-month figures match the Retail Prices API hourly figures x 730 (e.g. ND96isr H100 v5 71,773.60 USD/month = 98.32 USD/h)
Each row shows pay-as-you-go, 1-year and 3-year savings plan and Spot prices with a percent-saving badge; ND96isr H100 v5 shows no savings-plan price
Several GPU series show 'Pricing is not available in the selected region' for East US (NCCads H100 v5, NCads A10 v4, NGads V620, NDsr H200 v5)
Page still lists retired series (NC K80, NCv2 P100, NDs P40, NV M60) with notes that they were retired on 31 Aug 2023
GPU count per size is shown in a 'GPU' column, including fractions (0.25, 1/6X A10)
Disclaimer: prices are estimates only, not quotes; sign in to the pricing calculator for offer-specific pricing
Machine-readable prices available without authentication via prices.azure.com Retail Prices API
Pages read
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/ — GPU series catalogue, GPU count per size, monthly cross-check, per-second billing, savings-plan display
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and contains(armSkuName,'ND') (ND-series pay-as-you-go, Spot, savings plan and reservation prices
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and contains(armSkuName,'NC') (NC-series prices
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and armRegionName eq 'eastus' and contains(armSkuName,'NV') (NV-series prices
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and contains(armSkuName,'H200') (ND H200 v5 prices (eastus2
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and contains(armSkuName,'MI300X') (ND MI300X v5 prices (eastus2
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and contains(armSkuName,'NCC') (NCCads H100 v5 prices (eastus2
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and contains(armSkuName,'A10_v4') (NCads A10 v4 prices (westus3
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and contains(armSkuName,'V620') (NGads V620 prices (eastus2
- prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?api-version=2023-01-01-preview&$filter=serviceName — eq 'Virtual Machines' and contains(armSkuName,'GB300') (Confirms no GB300 price published
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/overview — Current GPU series list
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nd-gb200-v6-series — 4 GPUs per VM, 192 GiB, specs
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nd-gb300-v6-series — GB300 catalogue entry, 288GB
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nd-h200-v5-series — 8 GPUs per VM, 141GB
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ndh100v5-series — 8 GPUs per VM, 80GB
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ndmi300xv5-series — 8 GPUs per VM, 192GB
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ncadsh100v5-series — H100 NVL 94GB, 1-2 GPUs
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nccadsh100v5-series — Confidential H100, 1 GPU
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nc-rtxpro6000-bse-v6-series — RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB, 1/4 to 2 GPUs
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nca100v4-series — A100 PCIe 80GB
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ndma100v4-series — A100 80GB, 8 GPUs
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ncv3-series — V100 16GB, retirement 30 Sep 2025, quota starts at 0
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ndv2-series — 8 V100 per VM
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ncast4v3-series — T4 16GB
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nvadsa10v5-series — A10 24GB, 1/6 to 2 GPUs
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nvadsv710-v5-series — AMD Radeon PRO V710
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nvv3-series — Tesla M60
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nvv4-series — AMD MI25, 1/8 to 1 GPU
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ngadsv620-series — AMD Radeon PRO V620 32GB
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/managed-disks/ — Disk and snapshot prices
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/ — Egress prices
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/ip-addresses/ — Public IPv4 prices
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/states-billing — Stopped vs deallocated billing
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/spot-vms — Eviction policy, 30 s notice, no SLA, max price
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/change-credit-card — Cards, debit cards, wire; no virtual or prepaid cards; SEPA Direct Debit note
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/pay-by-invoice — Wire eligibility (6 months, approval, company documents
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account — 200 USD free credit, 1 USD card authorization
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/troubleshoot-subscription/troubleshoot-azure-sign-up — Sign-up steps: phone and card identity verification
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-list — Regions and locations
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/availability — 99.95% availability-set SLA
- azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status — Status page
- azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/plans/ — Support tiers and prices
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/ — Compliance offerings list
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/compliance/offerings/offering-soc-2 — SOC 2 Type 2 attestation
- registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/azurerm/latest — Official Terraform provider
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/vm — CLI
- learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quotas/per-vm-quota-requests — Quota request process
- sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000789019/000119312526323660/msft-20260630.htm — Headquarters
Questions about Microsoft Azure
What GPUs does Microsoft Azure offer?
Microsoft Azure has 14 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $11.06, A100 80GB from $3.67, H200 from $10.60, T4 from $0.34, A100 40GB from $3.40, Tesla V100 32GB from $2.75 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Microsoft Azure bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Stopped instance: A VM in 'Stopped (allocated)' state is billed as running; 'Stopped (deallocated)' is not billed for compute, but managed disks and networking resources (e.g. static public IPs) keep incurring charges.
How trustworthy is Microsoft Azure?
Its Trust Score is 81/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency, security & compliance. Weaker on company & track record. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Microsoft Azure's data centres?
40 named regions in 32 countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Italy, Spain, Austria, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Israel, South Africa, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand.
How do you pay Microsoft Azure, and are there credits?
Payment by card, invoice, crypto. Free credits: Free account: 200 USD credit to use within 30 days (new customers only); GPU sizes such as NCv3 are not available to trial subscriptions.. Identity check: card verification.