Azure Speed Test

Region pricing

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

36 priced regions

Cheapest published price

Central India

centralindia

$2.9090

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$2,123.57 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_E96ps_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 centralindia $2.9090 $2,123.57 0%
2 eastus $4.4260 $3,230.98 +52.15%
3 eastus2 $4.4260 $3,230.98 +52.15%
4 northcentralus $4.4260 $3,230.98 +52.15%
5 westus2 $4.4260 $3,230.98 +52.15%
6 westus3 $4.4260 $3,230.98 +52.15%
7 swedencentral $4.7140 $3,441.22 +62.05%
8 mexicocentral $4.8670 $3,552.91 +67.31%
9 canadacentral $4.9150 $3,587.95 +68.96%
10 canadaeast $4.9150 $3,587.95 +68.96%
11 northeurope $4.9440 $3,609.12 +69.96%
12 spaincentral $4.9440 $3,609.12 +69.96%
13 centralus $5.0020 $3,651.46 +71.95%
14 uksouth $5.0980 $3,721.54 +75.25%
15 italynorth $5.1460 $3,756.58 +76.9%
16 francecentral $5.1740 $3,777.02 +77.86%
17 westus $5.1740 $3,777.02 +77.86%
18 germanywestcentral $5.2900 $3,861.70 +81.85%
19 polandcentral $5.2900 $3,861.70 +81.85%
20 westeurope $5.2900 $3,861.70 +81.85%
21 southcentralus $5.3090 $3,875.57 +82.5%
22 westcentralus $5.3090 $3,875.57 +82.5%
23 ukwest $5.3570 $3,910.61 +84.15%
24 uaenorth $5.4050 $3,945.65 +85.8%
25 australiaeast $5.5200 $4,029.60 +89.76%
26 southeastasia $5.5200 $4,029.60 +89.76%
27 japaneast $5.6930 $4,155.89 +95.7%
28 japanwest $5.7020 $4,162.46 +96.01%
29 australiasoutheast $5.7500 $4,197.50 +97.66%
30 koreacentral $5.7700 $4,212.10 +98.35%
31 newzealandnorth $5.7890 $4,225.97 +99%
32 eastasia $6.0860 $4,442.78 +109.21%
33 southafricanorth $6.2020 $4,527.46 +113.2%
34 norwayeast $6.3260 $4,617.98 +117.46%
35 switzerlandnorth $6.9020 $5,038.46 +137.26%
36 brazilsouth $7.0370 $5,137.01 +141.9%

Vs. cheapest compares each region's hourly price with the lowest published price for the selected OS and pricing option. Source: Azure Retail Prices API, USD. Current on-demand retail rate with no term commitment. Windows reserved estimates retain the current Windows software surcharge and do not model Azure Hybrid Benefit. Prices exclude Low Priority, savings plans, storage, taxes, and negotiated discounts. Published pricing does not guarantee capacity or deployment eligibility.

SKU identity and primary specs

Canonical Resource SKUs fields and the most commonly compared capabilities.

How to read a VM size name

Each segment of Standard_DC8ads_v5 encodes a specific attribute. The Standard_ prefix is omitted from the display name.

D
Family — General-purpose D
C
Subfamily — Confidential computing
8
vCPUs — 8 virtual CPUs
a
Processor — AMD-based
d
Local disk — Includes a local temporary disk
s
Premium SSD — Compatible with Premium SSD
_v5
Version — 5th generation of this series
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_E96ps_v6
Size
E96ps_v6
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
8
GPU count
Not listed

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
Arm64
Disk controllers
SCSI
Hyper-V generations
V2
Maximum data disks
64
Maximum network interfaces
8
Memory (GB)
672
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
5000000000
Uncached disk IOPS
153600
vCPUs
96
vCPUs per core
1