What is the difference between Microsoft Azure and Heabsy?

Microsoft Azure and Heabsy are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Microsoft Azure or Heabsy?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Microsoft Azure and Heabsy?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 8 different GPU models across both Microsoft Azure and Heabsy, with 0 models available from both providers.

Microsoft Azure vs Heabsy

Compare GPU and LLM inference API pricing between Microsoft Azure and Heabsy. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

Microsoft Azure

Provider 1

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Heabsy

Provider 2

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Microsoft Azure GPUs

Heabsy GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 8Both available: 0Microsoft Azure: 8Heabsy: 0

Showing 8 of 8 GPUs

Last updated: 11/14/2026, 6:19:11 PM

GPU Model ↑	Microsoft Azure Price	Heabsy Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$3.67/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $3.67/hour Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$3.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $3.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$4.10/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $4.10/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$6.98/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $6.98/hour Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$11.06/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $11.06/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$10.60/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $10.60/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$6.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $6.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$0.34/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $0.34/hour Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API

A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$3.67/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $3.67/hour Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$3.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $3.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$4.10/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $4.10/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$6.98/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
H100 NVL 94GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $6.98/hour Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$11.06/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $11.06/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$10.60/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $10.60/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$6.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $6.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure	$0.34/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Azure Retail Prices API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Microsoft Azure $0.34/hour Updated: 11/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Azure Retail Prices API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 27Both available: 2Microsoft Azure: 7Heabsy: 22

Showing 15 of 27 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 11/14/2026, 6:19:11 PM

Model ↑	Microsoft Azure	Heabsy	Input Diff ↕
Claude Opus 5 Anthropic	Not available	$6.00 in $30.00 out	—
Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic	Not available	$4.80 in $24.00 out	—
Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic	Not available	$2.40 in $12.00 out	—
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic	Not available	$2.40 in $12.00 out	—
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	Not available	$0.560 in $0.840 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	Not available	$0.280 in $0.560 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	Not available	$2.20 in $4.40 out	—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	Not available	$0.280 in $1.04 out	—
GLM-5.2 Z.ai	Not available	$0.840 in $2.64 out	—
GLM-5.3 Z.ai	Not available	$1.20 in $4.40 out	—
GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai	Not available	$0.200 in $0.600 out	—
GPT-4o OpenAI	$2.50 in $10.00 out	Not available	—
GPT-4o mini OpenAI	$0.150 in $0.600 out	Not available	—
GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI	Not available	$0.240 in $1.44 out	—
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	$4.00 in $20.00 out	$2.40 in $12.00 out	$1.60

Features Comparison

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Foundry
Unified AI platform with a catalog of models, agents, and tools for building and governing AI applications
Enterprise Integration
Seamless integration with Microsoft ecosystem and enterprise tools
Hybrid Capabilities
Strong hybrid and multi-cloud support with Azure Arc
Advanced Security
Security features and compliance certifications
Global Scale
Extensive worldwide network of data centers and edge locations

Heabsy

OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API
Base URL https://api.heabsy.com/v1. Streaming, tool calling and structured output work as with the original SDKs; vision on supported models.
EEA tier with zero data retention
Models marked EEA only run on GPUs Heabsy operates inside the European Economic Area. Prompts and completions are processed in memory and never written to logs.
Routed catalog of open models
More than 25 open models from DeepSeek, Moonshot, Z.ai, OpenAI, Meta, Google, Qwen, NVIDIA and others, bought from global providers under a European contract and billed by Heabsy.
Long context and prefix caching
Up to 1M tokens of context on several models and 524,288 tokens on Qwen3.8 27B; cached input is billed at a lower rate.
Per-model processing labels
The catalog at heabsy.com/models shows for each model whether it is processed only in the EEA or may leave it.

Pros & Cons

Microsoft Azure

Advantages

Strong enterprise integration and support
Comprehensive AI and machine learning services
Advanced security and compliance features
Extensive hybrid cloud capabilities

Considerations

Complex pricing and billing structure
Can be expensive for certain workloads
Steeper learning curve for new users

Heabsy

Advantages

OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API: existing SDKs, Claude Code and Cursor switch by changing the base URL
EEA tier runs on Heabsy's own GPUs inside the EEA with zero data retention; prompts are never logged
EU company (Slovakia) with no US parent; DPA and sub-processor list published
Every model is labelled with where it is processed: EEA only or outside the EEA

Considerations

Most of the catalog is routed through third-party providers and may be processed outside the EEA; only a few models run on Heabsy's own hardware
There is no free tier or trial credit
No embeddings endpoint and no GPU rental

Compute Services

Microsoft Azure

Azure Virtual Machines

GPU-enabled VMs for various workloads

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Managed Kubernetes service with GPU support

Integrated GPU node pools
Automated scaling and updates

Azure Machine Learning

End-to-end ML platform with GPU acceleration

Automated ML capabilities
Integrated MLOps

Heabsy

Pricing Options

Microsoft Azure

Pay as you go

Pay for compute capacity by the second, with no long-term commitments or upfront payments

Reserved VM Instances

Significant cost reduction versus pay-as-you-go rates in exchange for a one-year or three-year term; suited to stable, predictable workloads

Spot VMs

Unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts for interruptible workloads

Azure Hybrid Benefit

Cost savings for existing Windows Server and SQL Server licenses

Azure savings plan for compute

Save money across select compute services globally by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for 1 or 3 years

Heabsy

Pay per token

Per 1M tokens for input, cached input and output, listed per model at heabsy.com/models. No minimum spend, no subscription.

Dedicated deployments

Open models can be brought onto Heabsy's own EEA hardware when the workload justifies a dedicated fleet; priced on request.

Getting Started

Microsoft Azure

Get Started

1
Create an Azure account
Sign up for Azure and get started with free credits
2
Set up your environment
Configure your subscription, resource groups, and access controls
3
Choose compute services
Select from VMs, containers, or serverless based on your needs
4
Deploy resources
Launch your first GPU-enabled instance or AI service

Heabsy

Get Started

1
Sign up
Create an account at platform.heabsy.com/quickstart; the API key and a first test request are in the console.
2
Point your SDK at Heabsy
Set the base URL to https://api.heabsy.com/v1 in the OpenAI or Anthropic SDK and use your Heabsy key.
3
Choose a model
Pick a model ID from heabsy.com/models, for example qwen38 for the EEA tier.

Support & Global Availability

Microsoft Azure

Global Regions

60+ regions worldwide with multiple availability zones

Support

Basic, Developer, Standard, and Professional Direct support plans with 24/7 options. Extensive documentation and community resources.

Heabsy

Global Regions

EEA tier: Heabsy's own GPUs inside the European Economic Area, EEA-only processing. Routed tier: third-party providers under a European contract, may be processed outside the EEA. Each model is labelled in the catalog.

Support

Email hello@heabsy.com or the contact form at heabsy.com/contacts. API reference at api.heabsy.com/docs. Website in English, German, Slovak and Russian.