Azure
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- 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
- Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
- On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
- SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
- Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Azure | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $86.87 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $173.74 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $8.10 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $21.50 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $131.89 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $39.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $23.25 /mo Standard | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $29.80 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 100 GB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $87.00 /TB $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Azure offers 10 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 64. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Azure | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
20 configs · 52 configs
|
$6.98 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 4x more expensive on Azure |
|
RTX PRO 6000
40 configs · 61 configs
|
$5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 4.6x more expensive on Azure |
|
H200
4 configs · 42 configs
|
$13.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | 3.8x more expensive on Azure |
|
A100
20 configs · 48 configs
|
$3.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 8.5x more expensive on Azure |
|
V100
6 configs · 20 configs
|
$1.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | 14x more expensive on Azure |
|
T4
16 configs · 8 configs
|
$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | 4.8x more expensive on Azure |
|
A10
12 configs · 12 configs
|
$3.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 16x more expensive on Azure |
|
GB200
4 configs
|
$11.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Azure only |
MI300X
4 configs
|
$1.60 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Azure only |
|
B300
6 configs
|
-- | $6.94 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Azure bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 or 36 months); Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Azure | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 66 | 10 |
| Example customers | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | azure.microsoft.com | vast.ai |
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Our data for Azure was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 14, 2026.