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Azure vs SwissGPU

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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

SwissGPU logo SwissGPU

  • Per-minute billing, stops when server is powered off
  • Dedicated bare-metal, no shared VMs
  • Switzerland-hosted with low latency to EU
  • No storage or bandwidth charges
  • Stripe payments including TWINT

Price comparison

How do Azure's prices compare against SwissGPU?

VM Small

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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SwissGPU logo SwissGPU Pricing Details

Per-minute billing in CHF; the server price is the only compute charge. Electricity billed separately at CHF 0.30/kWh, with a CHF 0.50 OS reinstall fee. Payments via Stripe, including TWINT.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Microsoft Azure Azure
SwissGPU SwissGPU
RTX PRO 6000 $5.50 $1.85

Billing Options

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

Available Models

Azure offers 10 GPU models, while SwissGPU offers 7.

Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(20) H200(4) RTX PRO 6000(40) A100(20) V100(6) T4(16) MI300X(4) A10(12) GB200(4) MI455X(1)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
RTX PRO 6000(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1) RTX 6000 Ada(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 5080(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 Azure and SwissGPU offer:

Service Azure SwissGPU
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
SwissGPU SwissGPU
www.swissgpu.ch
Headquarters
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
SwissGPU SwissGPU
Switzerland CH flag
Founded
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Data Center Locations
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
SwissGPU SwissGPU
1
Example Customers
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA
SwissGPU SwissGPU
EduID, Liset Capital, SPH

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Our data for Azure was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for SwissGPU on Aug. 31, 2026.