Microsoft Azure vs Modal
- GPUs
- 9 11
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.34/hr $0.59/hr
- Price wins
- 1/6 5/6
Modal is cheaper on 5 of the 6 GPUs both rent, Microsoft Azure on 1. Modal carries 2 more GPUs.
Hyperscaler that rents GPU virtual machines on demand, reserved or spot, integrated with Azure's managed AI and enterprise cloud services.
Best for: Microsoft-centric enterprise AI workloads
Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
Best for: Serverless inference and batch jobs
Price by GPU
The 6 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Microsoft Azure | Modal | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $11.06/hr | $3.95/hr | 180% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $10.60/hr | $4.54/hr | 134% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $4.10/hr | $2.50/hr | 64% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB | $3.40/hr | $2.10/hr | 62% |
| NVIDIA A10 24GB | $3.20/hr | $1.10/hr | 190% |
| NVIDIA T4 16GB | $0.34/hr | $0.59/hr | 72% |
Prices last checked: Microsoft Azure 1 Oct 2026, Modal 1 Oct 2026.
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Company facts
| Fact | Microsoft Azure | Modal |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Redmond, WA | New York City, United States |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| GPUs priced | 9 | 11 |
| Fastest GPU | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | n/a | Serverless GPU compute, inference, batch jobs, training, sandboxes |
| Pricing models | n/a | Pay-per-second, no commitments |
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Questions
- What is the difference between Microsoft Azure and Modal?
- Microsoft Azure: Hyperscaler that rents GPU virtual machines on demand, reserved or spot, integrated with Azure's managed AI and enterprise cloud services. Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
- Is Microsoft Azure cheaper than Modal?
- Modal is cheaper on 5 of the 6 GPUs both rent, Microsoft Azure on 1. Modal carries 2 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB cost on Microsoft Azure and Modal?
- Microsoft Azure charges $11.06 per GPU-hour and Modal charges $3.95 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Microsoft Azure and Modal?
- 6 GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB, NVIDIA A10 24GB, NVIDIA T4 16GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
