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EmpirioLabs AI vs Azure

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What's good about...

EmpirioLabs AI logo EmpirioLabs AI

  • Text, image, video, audio and 3D models on one account
  • Niche and research models alongside the mainstream ones
  • OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini request formats
  • On-demand Nvidia GPUs, from RTX 5090 to B200

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 EmpirioLabs AI's prices compare against Azure?

VM Small

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

VM Medium

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

VM Large

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

Block Storage

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Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

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Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

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Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

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

Managed Redis®*

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

Serverless 25M Executions

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

Free egress allowance

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Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

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

EmpirioLabs AI logo EmpirioLabs AI Pricing Details

Endpoints are pay-as-you-go against prepaid credits, with no subscription required. Billing follows the output: per token for text, per image, per second of video.

GPU instances bill per second, from allocation until they are destroyed.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

EmpirioLabs AI EmpirioLabs AI
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100 $3.10 $6.98 RTX PRO 6000 $2.40 $5.50 H200 $5.50 $13.78 A100 $1.70 $3.40

Billing Options

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

Available Models

EmpirioLabs AI offers 18 GPU models, while Azure offers 10.

EmpirioLabs AI EmpirioLabs AI
H100(7) RTX PRO 6000(5) H200(5) A100(5) L40S(4) B200(1) B300(1) RTX 4090(1) RTX A6000(4) RTX 5090(3)
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Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(20) RTX PRO 6000(40) H200(4) A100(20) 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.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that EmpirioLabs AI and Azure offer:

Service EmpirioLabs AI 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
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empiriolabs.ai
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
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United States of America US flag
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Founded
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Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
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6
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
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Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for EmpirioLabs AI was last updated on Sept. 9, 2026, and for Azure on Sept. 9, 2026.