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Cerebrium vs Azure

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What's good about...

Cerebrium logo Cerebrium

  • Per-second billing, with no charge for idle GPUs
  • Cold starts of 2-4 seconds via memory and GPU snapshots
  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 certified
  • Ten GPU types, from T4 to B200
  • Region pinning for data residency, on US and EU capacity

Microsoft Azure logo Azure

  • Integrations with the rest of Microsoft's products
  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to AI
  • Generous free tier, and compute savings plans available
  • 60+ datacenter locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Cerebrium's prices compare against Azure?

VM Small

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$22.73 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (CPU only)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)

VM Medium

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$113.94 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPU only)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)

VM Large

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$227.89 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU only)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)

Block Storage

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$5.00 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB included
Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 /mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Cerebrium Cerebrium
--
Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 /mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)

Managed Redis®*

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)

Serverless 25M Executions

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100 $3.40 $6.98 H200 $4.20 $13.78 RTX PRO 6000 $2.50 $5.50 A100 $2.00 $3.40

Billing Options

Cerebrium Cerebrium
On-Demand
Microsoft Azure Azure
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)Custom

Available Models

Cerebrium offers 9 GPU models, while Azure offers 10.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
H100(4) H200(4) A100(8) RTX PRO 6000(4) B200(4) L40S(4) L4(4) T4(4) A10(4)
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(20) H200(4) A100(20) RTX PRO 6000(40) V100(6) T4(16) MI300X(4) A10(12) GB200(4) MI455X(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Cerebrium and Azure offer:

Service Cerebrium Azure
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Cerebrium Cerebrium
www.cerebrium.ai
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Cerebrium Cerebrium
United States of America US flag
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cerebrium Cerebrium
2021
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
Cerebrium Cerebrium
3
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
Cerebrium Cerebrium
Tavus, Deepgram, Resemble AI
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for Cerebrium was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Azure on Sept. 11, 2026.