Microsoft Azure pricing: GPU rental rates
checked 13 October 2026
Microsoft Azure rents 5 GPU models today, from $0.68 an hour (A100 PCIe 80GB, spot / interruptible). Its cheapest on-demand H100 is $6.98 (H100 NVL, on-demand), 110% above the $3.33 market median. Storage, data transfer and billing rules are under the prices.
- Cheapest GPU $0.68 A100 PCIe 80GB, spot / interruptible
- H100 market median $3.33 Microsoft Azure's H100 is 110% above it
- 22 offers
- 5 GPU models
- Source prices.azure.com
In today's data: None of its 22 matching prices changed since 6 October 2026.
Compare the full daily GPU market
What else you pay at Microsoft Azure
Besides the GPU rate: Data in is free. Data out: tiered; outbound charged at normal rate. A stopped instance bills only for its storage (Stopped (Deallocated)). Microsoft Azure does not publish its storage price or billing increment. Each of these was checked on Microsoft Azure's own documentation on 7 July 2026. Add the charges that apply to you in the job cost calculator.
Microsoft Azure prices, checked 13 October 2026
More filters: provider, memory, node size, stock, sort, price unit
| GPU / provider | Billing | $/GPU-hour | Node · total per hour | Rent |
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| A100 SXM 40GB · Microsoft Azure40 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $3.40 | 8× $27.20 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 PCIe 80GB · Microsoft Azure80 GB · ×3 listings | on-demand | $3.67 | 1× $3.67 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 SXM 80GB · Microsoft Azure80 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $4.10 | 8× $32.77 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| H100 NVL · Microsoft Azure94 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $6.98 | 1× $6.98 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| H100 SXM · Microsoft Azure80 GB · Standard_ND96is_H100_v5 | on-demand | $11.06 | 8× $88.49 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| H100 SXM · Microsoft Azure80 GB · Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5 | on-demand | $12.29 | 8× $98.32 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 PCIe 80GB · Microsoft Azure80 GB · Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 | spot / interruptible | $0.68 | 1× $0.68 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 PCIe 80GB · Microsoft Azure80 GB · ×2 listings | spot / interruptible | $0.68 | 2× $1.36 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 SXM 40GB · Microsoft Azure40 GB · Standard_ND96asr_v4 | spot / interruptible | $0.74 | 8× $5.90 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 SXM 40GB · Microsoft Azure40 GB · Standard_ND96asr_A100_v4 | spot / interruptible | $0.75 | 8× $5.98 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| A100 SXM 80GB · Microsoft Azure80 GB · ×2 listings | spot / interruptible | $1.06 | 8× $8.44 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| H100 NVL · Microsoft Azure94 GB · ×2 listings | spot / interruptible | $1.29 | 1× $1.29 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| H100 SXM · Microsoft Azure80 GB · Standard_ND96is_H100_v5 | spot / interruptible | $2.04 | 8× $16.35 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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| H100 SXM · Microsoft Azure80 GB · Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5 | spot / interruptible | $2.27 | 8× $18.17 | Rent →checked 13 OctDetails
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Tables rank by price, lowest first. Commercial relationships never affect ordering. How we collect and rank prices.
Same GPU, provider, billing and price on several hosts or listings: one row, with the count. – means the provider does not state it.
Monthly view assumes 730 hours of continuous use. Daily view assumes 24 hours.
Cite this data
GPU Rental Prices, "Azure cloud GPU pricing: rates and total costs", prices checked 13 October 2026, https://gpurentalprices.com/providers/azure
Quote it with a link to this page. Downloads of the whole dataset are on Data & API.
Cheapest listed per-GPU-hour rates verified at the source. Before storage, egress and networking.
Microsoft Azure access and company facts
| Check | Published information | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum account funding | not published | 2026-07-07 |
| SOC 2 | Type II | 2026-07-07 |
| ISO 27001 | claimed | 2026-07-07 |
| Data location terms | multi-region | 2026-07-07 |
A company fact or certification is not a guarantee for every product or region. Unrecorded fields are left unknown. The smallest recorded node does not establish immediate stock or account approval.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
Computed from the verified fees and platform matrix (cells checked 7 July 2026 at Microsoft Azure's own documentation; verified items link to their source). Full matrices: fees · enterprise.
Similar providers
Hyperstack
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from $0.15/hr on-demand
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TensorDock
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from $0.10/hr on-demand
2 GPU families in common
RunPod
Secure Cloud (datacenter, reliable) and Community Cloud (peer hosts, cheaper). Per-second billing, serverless option.
from $0.25/hr secure cloud
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Ranked by overlap in the GPU models both providers list today; not an endorsement and never affected by commercial relationships.
FAQ
The lowest published Microsoft Azure rate is $0.68/GPU-hour for the A100 PCIe 80GB (spot / interruptible; No reservation; availability: Not reported; checked 13 October 2026). Configuration and billing conditions appear in each row.
Microsoft Azure prices 5 GPU models, including H100, A100. The live table above lists every current rate.
Microsoft Azure prices are tracked as spot / interruptible, on-demand. Every row is labeled with its tier and checked at the source on 2026-10-13.
Some Microsoft Azure rates are the per-GPU price within a node of up to 8 GPUs. Those rows note the node size, but the $/hr shown is always per single GPU.
Prices collected from prices.azure.com, checked 2026-10-13. See the methodology for how each number is collected.