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Leafcloud vs Azure

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What's good about...

Leafcloud logo Leafcloud

  • Netherlands data residency, GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II certified
  • OpenStack-based, reduced vendor lock-in
  • Free ingress and a monthly egress allowance
  • Server heat reused to warm homes and care facilities
  • NVIDIA A30, A100, H100, and RTX 6000 Blackwell GPUs, VM included

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 Leafcloud's prices compare against Azure?

VM Small

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$8.91 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (ec1.xsmall)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)

VM Medium

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$71.26 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (ec1.large)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)

VM Large

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$142.53 / mo 6 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (ec1.2xlarge)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)

Block Storage

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$11.62 / mo 100 GB
Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$6.97 / mo 1 TB
Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Leafcloud Leafcloud
$16.75 / mo Load Balancer
Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

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

Managed Redis®*

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

Serverless 25M Executions

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

Free egress allowance

Leafcloud Leafcloud
100 GB / mo
Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Leafcloud Leafcloud
Fair use, no published rate
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.

Leafcloud Leafcloud
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100 $4.78 $6.98 RTX PRO 6000 $3.21 $5.50 A100 $1.86 $3.40

Billing Options

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

Available Models

Leafcloud offers 4 GPU models, while Azure offers 10.

Leafcloud Leafcloud
H100(1) A100(4) RTX PRO 6000(3) A30(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.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Leafcloud and Azure offer:

Service Leafcloud Azure
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Databases
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
Leafcloud Leafcloud
leaf.cloud
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Leafcloud Leafcloud
Netherlands NL flag
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Founded
Leafcloud Leafcloud
2020
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
Leafcloud Leafcloud
1
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
Leafcloud Leafcloud
Mobiel.nl, Milieudefensie, FeedbackFruits, GlobeScope, Erasmus Data Collaboratory, Brunel Solar Team
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for Leafcloud was last updated on Sept. 10, 2026, and for Azure on Sept. 10, 2026.