datameaning/azure-gpu-vm-prices

Azure GPU VM prices per hour, every size and region

Microsoft Azure list prices per hour for every GPU virtual machine size (NC, ND, NG and NV series) in every region, checked every Monday against Microsoft's public Azure Retail Prices API.

Read it as a page, with the cheapest region for each GPU: https://www.datameaning.com/guides/azure-gpu-vm-prices/

A copy is on Kaggle, updated by the same weekly run. The copy here, on GitHub, is the source: every weekly change is a commit, so the price history is the git history.

Files

File	One row per	What it holds
data/azure_gpu_vm_prices.csv	size and region	Linux and Windows pay-as-you-go, Linux and Windows Spot, 1-year and 3-year savings-plan rates (Linux), price per GPU-hour, per month at 730 hours
data/azure_gpu_vm_summary.csv	size	regions, minimum, median and maximum Linux price per hour, cheapest and dearest region, lowest Spot and 3-year rates
gpu_specs.csv	size	GPU model, GPU count (and fraction, for partial-GPU sizes), GPU memory, vCPUs, memory, status, and the Microsoft Learn page each row was read from
data/raw/azure_retail_prices_n_series.csv	API row	the API's answer as fetched, so every number can be re-run
data/run-output.txt	run	what the last run printed, checks included

Prices are USD per hour as the API lists them. fetched_at says when. region_type marks Azure Government regions and operator edge zones; the summary uses public regions.

Re-run it

Python 3, standard library only.

python3 azure_gpu_prices.py --snapshot data/raw/azure_retail_prices_n_series.csv --out /tmp/rerun
python3 azure_gpu_prices.py --snapshot-out /tmp/raw.csv --out /tmp/today
python3 azure_gpu_prices.py --snapshot data/raw/azure_retail_prices_n_series.csv --out /tmp/planted \
    --plant duplicate-row,zero-price,bad-unit,sp-above-price,spot-above-price,partial-fetch

The first re-runs the published numbers from the saved answer. The second asks the live API. The third plants six faults and shows the checks stop the run. The script writes nothing if a check fails: a duplicate row, a price at or below zero, a price not in USD per hour, a savings-plan rate above its pay-as-you-go price, a Spot price above pay-as-you-go, or 10% fewer rows than the last published file.

What it leaves out

• List prices only: no disks, network, egress, support, or negotiated and reserved-instance discounts.
• FPGA (NP) and media-accelerator (NM) sizes, which the API prices under the same Standard_N prefix.
• Low-priority meters, which Azure replaced with Spot.
• A size the API prices before its spec row is added to gpu_specs.csv is still published, with blank specs, and the run prints a warning naming it.

License

The compilation, the specs table and the code are CC BY 4.0, by Data Meaning. The prices are Microsoft's public list prices; check the Azure pricing calculator before you buy.