Azure Speed Test

Region pricing

Linux Pay as you go hourly rates, sorted from lowest to highest. Monthly estimates use 730 hours.

53 priced regions

Cheapest published price

Central US East US East US 2 North Central US West US 2 West US 3

centralus eastus eastus2 northcentralus westus2 westus3

$7.6380

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$5,575.74 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_D96nds_v6 by Azure region, including each region's percentage above the cheapest price. Use a column heading button to change the sort order.
#Est. monthlyVs. cheapest
1
Central US Cheapest
centralus $7.6380 $5,575.74 0%
2
East US Cheapest
eastus $7.6380 $5,575.74 0%
3
East US 2 Cheapest
eastus2 $7.6380 $5,575.74 0%
4 northcentralus $7.6380 $5,575.74 0%
5
West US 2 Cheapest
westus2 $7.6380 $5,575.74 0%
6
West US 3 Cheapest
westus3 $7.6380 $5,575.74 0%
7 swedencentral $7.9680 $5,816.64 +4.32%
8 centralindia $8.1430 $5,944.39 +6.61%
9 jioindiacentral $8.1430 $5,944.39 +6.61%
10 jioindiawest $8.1430 $5,944.39 +6.61%
11 canadacentral $8.3610 $6,103.53 +9.47%
12 canadaeast $8.3610 $6,103.53 +9.47%
13 spaincentral $8.3610 $6,103.53 +9.47%
14 mexicocentral $8.4020 $6,133.46 +10%
15 koreasouth $8.7830 $6,411.59 +14.99%
16 westus $8.8050 $6,427.65 +15.28%
17 austriaeast $9.0980 $6,641.54 +19.11%
18 belgiumcentral $9.0980 $6,641.54 +19.11%
19 germanywestcentral $9.0980 $6,641.54 +19.11%
20 polandcentral $9.0980 $6,641.54 +19.11%
21 southcentralus $9.1650 $6,690.45 +19.99%
22 westcentralus $9.1650 $6,690.45 +19.99%
23 ukwest $9.2420 $6,746.66 +21%
24 koreacentral $9.2660 $6,764.18 +21.31%
25 southeastasia $9.3790 $6,846.67 +22.79%
26 francecentral $9.5470 $6,969.31 +24.99%
27 uksouth $9.5470 $6,969.31 +24.99%
28 australiacentral $9.6600 $7,051.80 +26.47%
29 australiacentral2 $9.6600 $7,051.80 +26.47%
30 australiaeast $9.6600 $7,051.80 +26.47%
31 westindia $9.7760 $7,136.48 +27.99%
32 japaneast $9.8280 $7,174.44 +28.67%
33 switzerlandnorth $9.9150 $7,237.95 +29.81%
34 australiasoutheast $9.9290 $7,248.17 +29.99%
35 italynorth $9.9290 $7,248.17 +29.99%
36 northeurope $10.0080 $7,305.84 +31.03%
37 westeurope $10.0080 $7,305.84 +31.03%
38 southindia $10.7690 $7,861.37 +40.99%
39 israelcentral $10.9220 $7,973.06 +43%
40 norwayeast $10.9220 $7,973.06 +43%
41 qatarcentral $10.9220 $7,973.06 +43%
42 uaenorth $10.9220 $7,973.06 +43%
43 japanwest $11.0750 $8,084.75 +45%
44 southafricanorth $11.1510 $8,140.23 +45.99%
45 germanynorth $11.8270 $8,633.71 +54.84%
46 eastasia $11.8390 $8,642.47 +55%
47 francesouth $12.4110 $9,060.03 +62.49%
48 switzerlandwest $12.8890 $9,408.97 +68.75%
49 uaecentral $14.1990 $10,365.27 +85.9%
50 norwaywest $14.2060 $10,370.38 +85.99%
51 southafricawest $14.4960 $10,582.08 +89.79%
52 brazilsouth $15.2760 $11,151.48 +100%
53 brazilsoutheast $19.8580 $14,496.34 +159.99%

Vs. cheapest shows how each region compares with the lowest available public price. Prices are shown in USD and may vary by availability, capacity, and agreement.

SKU identity and primary specs

Canonical Resource SKUs fields and the most commonly compared capabilities.

How to read this VM size name

Each segment of Standard_D96nds_v6 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the breakdown below.

D
Family — D-family size series
96
vCPUs — 96 vCPUs in the base size
n
Additive feature — Network optimized; increased vCPU to network bandwidth ratio
d
Additive feature — Includes a local temporary disk
s
Additive feature — Compatible with any Premium SSD type
_v6
Version — Generation 6 of this series
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_D96nds_v6
Size
D96nds_v6
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
15
GPU count
N/A

Feature flags

Accelerated networkingPremium storage

Static capabilities

Only allowlisted values that were present and identical across every regional record for this SKU are included.

Accelerated networking
True
Available vCPUs
96
CPU architecture
x64
Disk controllers
NVMe
Hyper-V generations
V2
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
15
Memory (GB)
384
NVMe disk size MiB
5406720
NVMe max read bytes/sec
12864000000
NVMe max read IOPS
1800000
NVMe max write bytes/sec
6432000000
NVMe max write IOPS
720000
NVMe size per disk MiB
901120
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
0
Temp and cached disk IOPS
432000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
4000000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
4000000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
5088000000
Uncached disk IOPS
153600
vCPUs
96
vCPUs per core
2
Virtualization types
NestedVirtualization