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Azure vs Spheron

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What's good about...

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

Spheron logo Spheron

  • Aggregates GPU supply from five data center partners
  • Blackwell B200 and B300 nodes offered on spot
  • Partner facilities certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA
  • Regions in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East

Price comparison

How do Azure's prices compare against Spheron?

VM Small

Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)
Spheron Spheron
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VM Medium

Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)
Spheron Spheron
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VM Large

Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)
Spheron Spheron
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Block Storage

Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB
Spheron Spheron
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Object Storage

Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB
Spheron Spheron
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Load Balancer

Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard
Spheron Spheron
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Managed PostgreSQL

Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Spheron Spheron
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Managed Redis®*

Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Spheron Spheron
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Serverless 25M Executions

Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Spheron Spheron
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Free egress allowance

Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo
Spheron Spheron
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)
Spheron Spheron
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GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Microsoft Azure Azure
Spheron Spheron
H100 $6.98 $2.65 H200 $13.78 $5.92 A100 $3.40 $1.43

Billing Options

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

Available Models

Azure offers 10 GPU models, while Spheron offers 9.

Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(16) A100(20) RTX PRO 6000(40) H200(2) V100(6) T4(16) MI300X(2) A10(12) GB200(2) MI455X(1)
Spheron Spheron
H100(10) A100(7) H200(3) RTX PRO 6000(1) L40S(16) B200(3) B300(4) RTX A6000(3) L40(8)

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 Azure and Spheron offer:

Service Azure Spheron
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
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Spheron Spheron
www.spheron.ai
Headquarters
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Spheron Spheron
Singapore SG flag
Founded
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Spheron Spheron
2020
Data Center Locations
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Spheron Spheron
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Example Customers
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA
Spheron Spheron
Prem AI, Wafer, Compute Desk, Baseten, Stanford University, UC Berkeley

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Azure was last updated on Sept. 3, 2026, and for Spheron on Sept. 3, 2026.