What's good about...

Microsoft Azure logo 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

Microsoft Azure logo Railway

  • Super fast to deploy a container-based stack
  • You pay for actual usage, may result in big savings
  • Offers many deployment templates for common use cases

Price comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against Railway?

Example configuration Microsoft Azure Railway
VM Small $6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2) $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium $86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2) $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large $173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2) $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage $8.10 / mo 100 GB $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $21.50 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $23.25 / mo Standard Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) $92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
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) $100.00 $0.1 / GB

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

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 Railway offer:

Service Microsoft Azure Railway
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
Website azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2008
Data Center Locations 66
Example Customers General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA
Railway
Website railway.app
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers --

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Our data for Microsoft Azure was last updated on Oct. 24, 2024, and for Railway on Sept. 25, 2024.