Azure VM size
Standard_NC48ads_A100_v4
Compare Linux and Windows pay-as-you-go, 1-year reserved, 3-year reserved, and Spot pricing for this VM size across Azure regions, with available hardware specifications and series metadata.
- vCPUs
- 48
- Memory
- 440 GB
- Architecture
- x64
- Priced regions
- 27
Region pricing
Linux Pay as you go hourly rates, sorted from lowest to highest. Monthly estimates use 730 hours.
Cheapest published price
East US, East US 2, West US 2, West US 3
eastus, eastus2, westus2, westus3
$7.3460
per hour, Linux Pay as you go
$5,362.58 estimated monthly
| # | Est. monthly | Vs. cheapest | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East US Cheapest | eastus | $7.3460 | $5,362.58 | 0% |
| 2 | East US 2 Cheapest | eastus2 | $7.3460 | $5,362.58 | 0% |
| 3 | West US 2 Cheapest | westus2 | $7.3460 | $5,362.58 | 0% |
| 4 | West US 3 Cheapest | westus3 | $7.3460 | $5,362.58 | 0% |
| 5 | centralus | $8.3010 | $6,059.73 | +13% | |
| 6 | canadacentral | $8.8150 | $6,434.95 | +20% | |
| 7 | northcentralus | $8.8150 | $6,434.95 | +20% | |
| 8 | northeurope | $8.8150 | $6,434.95 | +20% | |
| 9 | southcentralus | $8.8150 | $6,434.95 | +20% | |
| 10 | francecentral | $9.1830 | $6,703.59 | +25.01% | |
| 11 | uksouth | $9.1830 | $6,703.59 | +25.01% | |
| 12 | germanywestcentral | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 13 | italynorth | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 14 | polandcentral | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 15 | southeastasia | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 16 | spaincentral | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 17 | swedencentral | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 18 | westeurope | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 19 | westus | $9.5500 | $6,971.50 | +30% | |
| 20 | koreacentral | $9.9170 | $7,239.41 | +35% | |
| 21 | centralindia | $10.2840 | $7,507.32 | +39.99% | |
| 22 | jioindiacentral | $10.2840 | $7,507.32 | +39.99% | |
| 23 | jioindiawest | $10.2840 | $7,507.32 | +39.99% | |
| 24 | switzerlandnorth | $10.5050 | $7,668.65 | +43% | |
| 25 | australiaeast | $10.6520 | $7,775.96 | +45% | |
| 26 | japaneast | $10.6520 | $7,775.96 | +45% | |
| 27 | brazilsouth | $14.6920 | $10,725.16 | +100% |
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
- ARM SKU name
- Standard_NC48ads_A100_v4
- Size
- NC48ads_A100_v4
- Series
- NC A100 v4 Series
- Maximum data disks
- 16
- Maximum network interfaces
- 4
- GPU count
- 2
Feature flags
Static capabilities
Only allowlisted values that were present and identical across every regional record for this SKU are included.
- Accelerated networking
- True
- Available vCPUs
- 48
- Cached disk bytes
- 549755813888
- CPU architecture
- x64
- GPUs
- 2
- Hyper-V generations
- V2
- Maximum data disks
- 16
- Maximum network interfaces
- 4
- Memory (GB)
- 440
- NVMe disk size MiB
- 1831054
- NVMe size per disk MiB
- 915527
- OS VHD size MB
- 1047552
- Premium storage
- True
- RDMA
- False
- Resource volume MB
- 131072
- Temp and cached disk IOPS
- 64000
- Temp and cached read bytes/sec
- 512000000
- Temp and cached write bytes/sec
- 512000000
- Uncached disk bytes/sec
- 2048000000
- Uncached disk IOPS
- 60000
- vCPUs
- 48
- vCPUs per core
- 1