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 TensorWave

  • AMD GPUs as an alternative to Nvidia-based platforms
  • Native support for PyTorch and TensorFlow with no code changes
  • Can reserve for up to 3 years

Price comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against TensorWave?

Example configuration Microsoft Azure TensorWave
VM Small $7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s) --
VM Medium $137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2) --
VM Large $288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2) --
Block Storage $9.60 / mo 128 GiB --
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) --

Azure offers GPUs in the following configurations:

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

TensorWave offers bare metal GPU nodes and fully managed Kubernetes clusters. You can reserve nodes for periods ranging from 6 months to 3 years.

While their pricing is not yet publicly available, you can request a quote on their website.

TensorWave offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
AMD MI300X 8x MI300X 1536GB -- -- On Request

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 of the managed services that Microsoft Azure and TensorWave offer:

Service Microsoft Azure TensorWave
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
TensorWave
Website tensorwave.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2023
Data Center Locations 2
Example Customers --

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Our data for Microsoft Azure was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for TensorWave on Sept. 27, 2024.