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GPU Cloud HQDedicated, billed monthly vs Microsoft AzureHyperscaler

Microsoft Azure alternative: the same GPU, priced by the month

Microsoft's cloud sells GPUs as ND- and NC-series virtual machines, from fractional RTX PRO 6000 sizes to 8-GPU H100 and H200 nodes, with reservations, savings plans and Spot. Below: their published rates read on 15 October 2026, what they add up to over a full month, and the cases where Microsoft Azure is simply the better choice.

  • Microsoft Azure, one month of H100$8,972at $12.29/h × 730 h
  • GPU Cloud HQ, same GPU dedicated$1,249flat, fixed for your term
  • Difference−86%$7,723 a month

Price, GPU by GPU

Every model Microsoft Azure publishes that we also rent. Their rate is the standard on-demand tier — spot and preemptible tiers are cheaper and noted where they exist.

GPUMicrosoft Azure published rateOne month, 24/7Our monthlyDifference
NVIDIA H200141 GB HBM3e $84.80/h for ND96isr H200 v5 (8× H200, East US 2) — $10.60 per GPU-hour $7,738 $1,690 −78%
NVIDIA H100 SXM80 GB HBM3 $98.32/h for ND96isr H100 v5 (8× H100, East US) — $12.29 per GPU-hour · Spot $2.27 $8,972 $1,249 −86%
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell96 GB GDDR7 ECC $5.50–$6.38/h for a 1-GPU RTX PRO 6000 v6 virtual machine $4,015 $749 −81%
NVIDIA A10080 GB HBM2e $3.67/h for NC24ads A100 v4 (1× A100 80 GB PCIe) $2,681 $649 −76%

Linux pay-as-you-go prices from Microsoft's own pricing data, read on 15 October 2026. Azure lists no L40S virtual machine and no 8-GPU HGX B200 size.

Our price includes the dedicated CPU, RAM and NVMe listed on the pricing table, 20 TB of outbound transfer and a 99.9% SLA. Read on 15 October 2026 from azure.microsoft.com.

An honest read

Both of these lists are real. Pick the column that describes your workload.

Where Microsoft Azure wins

  • Published reservation and Spot prices — Spot H100 at $2.27 per GPU-hour.
  • Single-GPU A100 80 GB and fractional RTX PRO 6000 sizes.
  • Enterprise agreements, compliance and the rest of Microsoft's cloud on one bill.

Choose Microsoft Azure if you are bound to Microsoft — Entra ID, an enterprise agreement, Azure credits — and the GPU is one line on a much larger invoice.

Where we win

  • One flat monthly invoice. No meter, no egress fee, no storage line item — the number is fixed for your whole term.
  • Single-tenant bare metal. The whole machine, with its CPU, RAM and NVMe, not a container beside someone else's job.
  • No KYC, paid in crypto. An email address, a prepaid balance in BTC, ETH or USDT, and renewals settle themselves.
  • Live in under 10 minutes, with a 99.9% SLA, 4-hour hardware replacement and engineers on call 24/7.

Choose us if the GPUs stay busy, you want the bill to be predictable, and you would rather not hand over an identity document to rent a computer.

The fine print, side by side

What to checkMicrosoft AzureGPU Cloud HQ
How you are billed Per minute Flat monthly price, prepaid balance, invoices settle themselves
Commitment Reservations up to 72% off over 1 or 3 years; savings plans up to 65% Rolling month, or 3/6/12 months for 5–15% off
Signing up & identity Phone number and a non-prepaid card, used for identity verification Self-serve, email address only — no KYC
How you pay Card; wire transfer only for approved accounts — no crypto Bitcoin, Ether, USDT (ERC-20 / TRC-20) — no KYC, no card
What you actually get Virtual machines Single-tenant bare metal, root access
Getting GPUs Per-family vCPU quotas, reviewed on request No quota: every GPU on the price list is in stock, live in under 10 minutes
Network First 100 GB of egress free, then about $0.08 per GB 10–25 Gbps dedicated, 20 TB egress included

Questions people actually ask

Is GPU Cloud HQ cheaper than Microsoft Azure?

For a machine that stays busy, yes: Microsoft Azure publishes $98.32/h for ND96isr H100 v5 (8× H100, East US) — $12.29 per GPU-hour · Spot $2.27, which is $8,972 for a 730-hour month, against $1,249 flat here for a dedicated H100 — about 86% less. Below roughly 102 hours of use a month, their hourly rate works out cheaper.

What do I lose by leaving Microsoft Azure?

You are bound to Microsoft — Entra ID, an enterprise agreement, Azure credits — and the GPU is one line on a much larger invoice. If that is you, stay with them — we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.

Do I need an account or an identity check to compare?

No. Every price on this page is public on both sides. When you do order here, an email address is all we ask for: no ID document, no company registration, no card — the balance is funded in Bitcoin, Ether or USDT.

How current are these figures?

They were read on 15 October 2026 from Microsoft Azure's own pricing page (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/). Providers change prices without notice — the link is there so you can check today's figure yourself.

Try the maths on your own workload

Every GPU is in stock, the price is public, and the first invoice settles from your balance in minutes.