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Fluidstack vs Azure

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What's good about...

Fluidstack logo Fluidstack

  • Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
  • Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
  • ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
  • Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload

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 Fluidstack'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)

Fluidstack logo Fluidstack Pricing Details

Fluidstack publishes no public rates. Capacity is contracted directly and quoted per deal, and there is no self-serve hourly option or online signup.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

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

Available Models

Azure offers 10 GPU models.

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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 Fluidstack and Azure offer:

Service Fluidstack 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
Fluidstack Fluidstack
www.fluidstack.io
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
Fluidstack Fluidstack
2017
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
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4
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
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Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Fluidstack was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Azure on Sept. 11, 2026.