Azure Virtual Machines
Microsoft's virtual machines. Priced close to AWS, with reservations and hybrid licensing aimed at Windows shops.
Azure VMs are worth comparing if you already use Microsoft's cloud or Windows licensing. The Dasv6 prices shown are slightly below AWS m7i, but disks and outbound traffic cost extra. Internet egress starts at $0.087/GB after 100 GB free. One- and three-year reservations reduce compute costs by roughly 38% and 60%; check whether your workload can justify the commitment.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States (parent: Microsoft)
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- Yes
- Provider type
- Hyperscaler & enterprise. The broadest catalog of managed services, many regions, enterprise support contracts and compliance programs.
- Billing
- payg
- Free tier
- $200 credit for 30 days; 750 hours/month of small B-series VMs for 12 months.
- Open source
- No
- Website
- azure.microsoft.com
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Published rates
Pricing
Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.
| Plan | vCPUs / instance | RAM / instance (GB) | Instance / month | Internet egress / TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D2as_v6 | 2 | 8 | $69.93 | $87, tiered |
| D4as_v6 | 4 | 16 | $136.51 | $87, tiered |
| D8as_v6 | 8 | 32 | $268.64 | $87, tiered |
| D16as_v6 | 16 | 64 | $533.63 | $87, tiered |
| D32as_v6 | 32 | 128 | $1,064.34 | $87, tiered |
| D64as_v6 | 64 | 256 | $2,125.03 | $87, tiered |
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details
Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.
D2as_v6
- vCPUs / instance
- 2
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 8
- Instance / month
- $69.93
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $87/TB through 10 TB; $83/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
D4as_v6
- vCPUs / instance
- 4
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 16
- Instance / month
- $136.51
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $87/TB through 10 TB; $83/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
D8as_v6
- vCPUs / instance
- 8
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 32
- Instance / month
- $268.64
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $87/TB through 10 TB; $83/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
D16as_v6
- vCPUs / instance
- 16
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 64
- Instance / month
- $533.63
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $87/TB through 10 TB; $83/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
D32as_v6
- vCPUs / instance
- 32
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 128
- Instance / month
- $1,064.34
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $87/TB through 10 TB; $83/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
D64as_v6
- vCPUs / instance
- 64
- RAM / instance (GB)
- 256
- Instance / month
- $2,125.03
- Included egress / instance (TB)
- 0
- Free egress / account (TB)
- 0.1
- Internet egress / TB past the last tier
- $50
- Egress volume tiers
- $87/TB through 10 TB; $83/TB through 50 TB; $70/TB through 150 TB
East US, Linux pay-as-you-go, Dasv6 (AMD, 4 GB per vCPU; a vCPU is a hyperthread), 730 hours. The Intel Dsv6 is ~11% more. Each instance price includes a Standard public IPv4 at $0.005/hour. Managed disks are extra (Standard SSD E10 128 GB $9.60/month, Premium SSD P10 $19.71). Egress: first 100 GB/month free, then $0.087/GB to 10 TB, $0.083 to 50 TB, $0.07 to 150 TB, $0.05 above ($0.08/GB first tier with the "Internet" routing preference). Reservations cut ~38% (1 yr) and ~60% (3 yr). Prices from the Azure Retail Prices API.
Managed alternatives
At 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 10 TB egress to internet / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
Azure Virtual Machines: $23,108/yr estimated.
- Contabo Cloud VPS (shared vCPU): $995/yr estimated · $22,113/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Hetzner Cloud CX (shared vCPU): $1,708/yr estimated · $21,399/yr bill differencePublished rates
- OVHcloud bare metal: $1,747/yr estimated · $21,361/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Hetzner dedicated servers (AX): $2,856/yr estimated · $20,252/yr bill differencePublished rates
- Contabo Cloud VDS: $3,172/yr estimated · $19,936/yr bill differencePublished rates
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
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