Azure
vs
Verda
What's good about each
- Integrates with Entra ID, Microsoft 365, GitHub and Visual Studio
- Azure Arc and Azure Stack for hybrid and multicloud
- OpenAI models served through Azure AI Foundry
- 100+ compliance offerings, regional and industry-specific
- 60+ regions worldwide
- Nvidia GPU range from A100 to GB300 NVL72
- On-demand, spot, and reserved pricing on the same hardware
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and C5 certified
- EU owned, with datacenters in Finland and Iceland
- Powered by 100% renewable energy
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Azure | Verda | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2ats v2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $95.76 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4als v2) | $21.60 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 77% cheaper on Verda |
| Large VM | $231.84 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (D8als v6) | $36.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | 84% cheaper on Verda |
| Block storage | $7.92 /mo 100 GB (Premium SSD v2) | $20.00 /mo 100 GB NVMe | 60% cheaper on Azure |
| Object storage | $35.25 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $54.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Flexible Server B2s) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $23.04 /mo 1 GB RAM (Managed Redis Balanced B1) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $23.00 /mo Standard | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $35.00 /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) | Free and unlimited |
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 Verda offers 11. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Azure | Verda | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
20 configs · 35 configs
|
$6.98 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.04 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 28% cheaper on Verda |
|
RTX PRO 6000
40 configs · 35 configs
|
$5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | 49% cheaper on Verda |
|
H200
4 configs · 28 configs
|
$13.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.44 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 53% cheaper on Verda |
|
A100
20 configs · 42 configs
|
$3.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.66 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 51% cheaper on Verda |
|
V100
6 configs · 28 configs
|
$1.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.24 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 84% cheaper on Verda |
|
GB200
4 configs
|
$11.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Azure only |
MI300X
4 configs
|
$1.84 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Azure only |
|
MI455X
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Azure only |
|
B300
56 configs
|
-- | $5.96 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Verda only |
|
B200
70 configs
|
-- | $4.66 /GPU/hr Spot | Verda only |
Azure bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 or 36 months); Verda bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Azure | Verda |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Level 1 | -- |
| FedRAMP | High | -- |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Azure | Verda |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | Finland |
| Locations | 66 | 3 |
| Example customers | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA | Sony, Findable, Harvard University, MIT, Korea University |
| Website | azure.microsoft.com | verda.com |
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Our data for Azure was last updated on Nov. 10, 2026, and for Verda on Nov. 10, 2026.