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

East US East US 2 West US 2 West US 3

eastus eastus2 westus2 westus3

$1.6000

per hour, Linux Pay as you go

$1,168.00 estimated monthly

Operating system
Pricing model
Linux Pay as you go hourly prices for Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5 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
East US Cheapest
eastus $1.6000 $1,168.00 0%
2
East US 2 Cheapest
eastus2 $1.6000 $1,168.00 0%
3
West US 2 Cheapest
westus2 $1.6000 $1,168.00 0%
4
West US 3 Cheapest
westus3 $1.6000 $1,168.00 0%
5 mexicocentral $1.7660 $1,289.18 +10.37%
6 malaysiawest $1.8720 $1,366.56 +17%
7 canadacentral $1.9200 $1,401.60 +20%
8 northcentralus $1.9200 $1,401.60 +20%
9 northeurope $1.9200 $1,401.60 +20%
10 southcentralus $1.9200 $1,401.60 +20%
11 indonesiacentral $1.9600 $1,430.80 +22.5%
12 centralus $1.9680 $1,436.64 +23%
13 francecentral $2.0000 $1,460.00 +25%
14 koreasouth $2.0000 $1,460.00 +25%
15 uksouth $2.0000 $1,460.00 +25%
16 germanywestcentral $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
17 italynorth $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
18 polandcentral $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
19 southeastasia $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
20 spaincentral $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
21 swedencentral $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
22 westeurope $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
23 westus $2.0800 $1,518.40 +30%
24 koreacentral $2.1600 $1,576.80 +35%
25 centralindia $2.2400 $1,635.20 +40%
26 jioindiacentral $2.2400 $1,635.20 +40%
27 jioindiawest $2.2400 $1,635.20 +40%
28 israelcentral $2.2880 $1,670.24 +43%
29 qatarcentral $2.2880 $1,670.24 +43%
30 switzerlandnorth $2.2880 $1,670.24 +43%
31 uaenorth $2.2880 $1,670.24 +43%
32 australiaeast $2.3200 $1,693.60 +45%
33 japaneast $2.3200 $1,693.60 +45%
34 southafricanorth $2.3360 $1,705.28 +46%
35 eastasia $2.4800 $1,810.40 +55%
36 brazilsouth $3.2000 $2,336.00 +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
Microsoft naming guide
ARM SKU name
Standard_NV18ads_A10_v5
Size
NV18ads_A10_v5
Maximum data disks
16
Maximum network interfaces
6
GPU count
1

Feature flags

1 GPUAccelerated 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
18
Cached disk bytes
274877906944
CPU architecture
x64
GPUs
1
Hyper-V generations
V1,V2
Maximum data disks
16
Maximum network interfaces
6
Memory (GB)
220
OS VHD size MB
1047552
Premium storage
True
RDMA
False
Resource volume MB
737280
Temp and cached disk IOPS
75000
Temp and cached read bytes/sec
1000000000
Temp and cached write bytes/sec
1000000000
Uncached disk bytes/sec
384000000
Uncached disk IOPS
25600
vCPUs
18
vCPUs per core
2