Microsoft Azure H100 rental price

Microsoft Azure lists 3 current on-demand H100 rows. Its lowest is $6.98 per GPU-hour, rank 17 of 19 among providers that set their own price. The median of those 19 is $3.90, so Microsoft Azure sits 79% above the median.

Lowest listed: $6.98/GPU-hr; 1× NVL configuration
Rank: 17 of 19; by lowest solid price
Against median: +79%; median $3.90
Rows: 3; 3 spot, 0 reserved

Rank is among the 19 providers with a current on-demand price they set; marketplace figures, announced prices, spot and reserved rows are not ranked. The difference to the median uses $3.90, the median of the provider lows. USD per GPU-hour, before tax.

Where Microsoft Azure sits among the providers

19 providers

18 providers, each at its lowest listed on-demand price, USD per GPU-hour

Closest in price

Every on-demand H100 row from Microsoft Azure

3 rows

Microsoft Azure on-demand H100 rows with source and read date
Configuration	Billing	$/GPU-hr	$/hr, config	Region	Read	Source
1× NVLStandard_NC40ads_H100_v5	not stated	$6.98	$6.98	eastus	2026-11-12	page
2× NVLStandard_NC80adis_H100_v5	not stated	$6.98	$13.96	eastus	2026-11-12	page
8×Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5	not stated	$12.29	$98.32	eastus	2026-11-12	page

Current rows first, then rows announced for later. A marketplace row is set by hosts, a from chip gives the start date of an announced price.

Size by size against the market

rank is among providers at the same size

Microsoft Azure lowest H100 price at each configuration size and its rank at that size
Size	$/GPU-hr	$/hr, config	Rank at this size	Lowest at this size
1×	$6.98	$6.98	12 of 13	Voltage Park, $1.99
2×	$6.98	$13.96	3 of 3	Massed Compute, $2.73
8×	$12.29	$98.32	10 of 10	Vultr, $2.30

From 1 to 8 GPUs, Microsoft Azure's per-GPU price goes from $6.98 to $12.29, +76.1%.

Spot and reserved H100 from Microsoft Azure

not part of the ranking

Spot (3)

Microsoft Azure spot H100 rows beside its on-demand price
Configuration	Billing	$/GPU-hr	Its on-demand low	Difference	Read	Source
1× NVLStandard_NC40ads_H100_v5 (Spot)	not stated	$1.42	$6.98	-80%	2026-11-12	page
2× NVLStandard_NC80adis_H100_v5 (Spot)	not stated	$1.42	$6.98	-80%	2026-11-12	page
8×Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5 (Spot)	not stated	$2.27	$6.98	-67%	2026-11-12	page

Spot is capacity that can be interrupted; reserved is paid for over a term. The difference compares each row with Microsoft Azure's lowest on-demand price of $6.98.

Microsoft Azure: common questions

How much does Microsoft Azure charge for an H100 per hour?

$6.98 per GPU-hour for its lowest listed configuration (1× NVL), read 2026-11-12. For that configuration the hourly total is $6.98.

Where does Microsoft Azure rank for the H100?

Rank 17 of 19 providers by lowest solid on-demand price. The closest providers by price are Nebius ($4.50), Verda ($5.09), CoreWeave ($6.16), and Amazon Web Services ($6.88).

Is Microsoft Azure above or below the median?

Microsoft Azure's lowest figure of $6.98 is 79% above the median of $3.90, where the median is taken over each ranked provider's lowest price.

How does Microsoft Azure bill H100 time?

Microsoft Azure does not state a billing unit on the pages we read for its H100 rows, so none is assumed.

Does Microsoft Azure list an 8-GPU H100 server?

Yes: $12.29 per GPU, $98.32 per server-hour.

Does Microsoft Azure list spot or reserved H100 capacity?

3 spot and 0 reserved rows, shown above with the on-demand low beside each.

What Microsoft Azure states about itself

NC H100 v5 series has up to 2 NVIDIA H100 NVL GPUs with 94GB memory each. source

Pricing page read: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/

Disclosure

H100 Rate Card is published by the Runcrate team, who also run Runcrate, an AI cloud. Runcrate is listed in the table for the H100, marked "ours, live". It is sorted by price like every other row, with no pinned position. Other providers' prices are read from their own public pricing pages. We have no paid placement.