Azure vs Paperspace

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Microsoft 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

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration	Microsoft Azure	Paperspace
VM Small	$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)	--
VM Medium	$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)	--
VM Large	$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)	--
Block Storage	$8.10 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	$21.50 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)	--
Managed Redis®*	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

Azure offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
NC4as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	4	28GB	$0.53	Source
NC8as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	8	56GB	$0.75	Source
NC6	1x K80	12GB	6	56GB	$0.90	Source
NV6	1x M60	8GB	6	56GB	$1.14	Source
NV12s v3	1x M60	8GB	12	112GB	$1.14	Source
NC16as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	16	110GB	$1.20	Source
NC12	2x K80	24GB	12	112GB	$1.80	Source
NC6s v2	1x P100	16GB	6	112GB	$2.07	Source
ND6s	1x P40	24GB	6	112GB	$2.07	Source
NV12	2x M60	16GB	12	112GB	$2.28	Source
NV24s v3	2x M60	16GB	24	224GB	$2.28	Source
NC6s v3	1x V100	16GB	6	112GB	$3.06	Source
NC24	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.60	Source
NC24r	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.96	Source
NC12s v2	2x P100	32GB	12	224GB	$4.14	Source
ND12s	2x P40	48GB	12	224GB	$4.14	Source
NC64as T4 v3	4x T4	64GB	64	440GB	$4.35	Source
NV48s v3	4x M60	32GB	48	448GB	$4.56	Source
NV24	4x M60	32GB	24	224GB	$4.56	Source
NC24ads A100 v4	1x A100	80GB	24	220GB	$4.78	Launch
NC12s v3	2x V100	32GB	12	224GB	$6.12	Source
ND24s	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$8.28	Source
NC24s v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$8.28	Source
NC40ads H100 v5	1x H100	80GB	40	320GB	$8.82	Source
ND24rs	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$9.11	Source
NC24rs v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$9.11	Source
NC24s v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$12.24	Source
NC24rs v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$13.46	Source
ND40rs v2	8x V100	256GB	40	672GB	$22.03	Source
ND96asr A100 v4	8x A100	320GB	96	900GB	$27.20	Source

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX 4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX 5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Microsoft Azure and Paperspace offer:

Service	Microsoft Azure	Paperspace
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer		--
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage		--
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Microsoft Azure	Paperspace
Website	azure.microsoft.com	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2014
Data Center Locations	66	3
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

	Microsoft Azure
Website	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	66
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando