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HIGHRESO vs Azure

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What's good about...

HIGHRESO logo HIGHRESO

  • GPUs from A4000 and A100 to H200 and B200
  • Four company-owned GPU datacenters across Japan
  • Data transfer included in instance pricing
  • Japanese-language engineering support

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 HIGHRESO'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)

HIGHRESO logo HIGHRESO Pricing Details

HIGHRESO prices in yen and bills GPU instances two ways: pay-as-you-go by the hour while an instance runs, or a flat monthly rate per instance. Stopped instances are not billed and keep their data.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

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

Available Models

HIGHRESO offers 4 GPU models, while Azure offers 10.

HIGHRESO HIGHRESO
A100(4) H200(1) B200(1) A4000(1)
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(20) A100(20) H200(4) 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.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that HIGHRESO and Azure offer:

Service HIGHRESO 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
HIGHRESO HIGHRESO
highreso.jp
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
HIGHRESO HIGHRESO
Japan JP flag
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Founded
HIGHRESO HIGHRESO
2007
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
HIGHRESO HIGHRESO
4
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
HIGHRESO HIGHRESO
Senju Pharmaceutical, Nagase & Co., Tohoku University, Kyoto University, Waseda University, NTT PC Communications
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for HIGHRESO was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Azure on Sept. 7, 2026.