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 Vultr

  • Good selection VPS configurations (GPU, dedicated, high memory)
  • Offers managed services (databases, Kubernetes, object storage)
  • Competitive pricing, generous egress
  • 30+ data center locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Microsoft Azure's prices compare against Vultr?

Example configuration Microsoft Azure Vultr
VM Small $6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2) $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium $86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2) $40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large $173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2) $160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage $8.10 / mo 100 GB $10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $21.50 / mo 1 TB $6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $23.25 / mo Standard $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance 100 GB / mo 2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) $10.00 $0.01 / GB

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

Vultr offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
A16 1x A16 16GB 6 64GB $0.51 Launch
A16 2x A16 96GB 12 128GB $1.02 Launch
A40 1x A40 48GB 24 120GB $1.86 Launch
A16 4x A16 192GB 24 256GB $2.05 Launch
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 16 240GB $2.23
A100 80GB 1x A100 80GB 12 120GB $2.60 Launch
A16 8x A16 384GB 48 486GB $4.09 Launch
GH200 1x GH200 96GB 72 480GB $4.34
A40 4x A40 192GB 96 480GB $7.44 Launch
A16 16x A16 768GB 96 960GB $9.19 Launch
HGX A100 8x A100 5120GB 112 2048GB $12.90
H100 8x H100 5120GB 224 2048GB $19.99

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 Vultr offer:

Service Microsoft Azure Vultr
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
Vultr
Website www.vultr.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2014
Data Center Locations 32
Example Customers Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

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Our data for Microsoft Azure was last updated on Oct. 24, 2024, and for Vultr on Sept. 28, 2024.