Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5 specs and pricing | Azure

Azure Virtual Machine: NC40ads_H100_v5 / NC40ads H100_v5 with 40 vCPUs and 320 GiB of memory. Available in 26 regions starting from $5,095.40 per month. A -21.72% cheaper alternative is available.

Name	Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5
Details	Standard is recommended tier N – GPU enabled C – High-performance computing and machine learning workloads 40 – The number of vCPUs H100 – Accelerator Type a – AMD-based processor d – Diskfull (local temp disk is present) s – Premium Storage capable v5 – version
vCPUs	40
CPU Architecture	x64
Memory (GiB)	320
Hyper-V Generations	V2
ACUs	0
GPUs	1
GPU Name	NVIDIA H100
GPU RAM (GiB)	94
GPU Total RAM (GiB)	94
Max Network Interfaces	2
RDMA Enabled	no
Accelerated Net	yes

OS Disk Size	1023 GiB
Res Disk Size	128 GiB
Max Disks	8
Support Premium Disk	yes
Combined IOPS is a sum of all attached disk's IOPs	32000
Uncached Disk IOPS	100000
Combined Write is a sum of all attached disk's write throughtput	244 MiB/Sec
Combined Read is a sum of all attached disk's read throughtput	244 MiB/Sec

Regional Prices

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Region Name	Region ID	Linux Price	Windows Price
East US	eastus	6.9800	8.8200
East US 2	eastus2	6.9800	8.8200
hidden-1	hidden-1	6.9800	8.8200
West US 2	westus2	6.9800	8.8200
hidden-2	hidden-2	8.1670	10.0070
hidden-3	hidden-3	8.1670	10.0070
hidden-4	hidden-4	8.3760	10.2160
hidden-5	hidden-5	8.3760	10.2160
hidden-6	hidden-6	8.3800	10.2200
hidden-7	hidden-7	8.5850	10.4250
hidden-8	hidden-8	8.5900	10.4300
hidden-10	hidden-10	8.7250	10.5650
hidden-9	hidden-9	8.7250	10.5650
hidden-11	hidden-11	9.0740	10.9140
hidden-12	hidden-12	9.0740	10.9140
hidden-13	hidden-13	9.0740	10.9140
hidden-14	hidden-14	9.0740	10.9140
hidden-15	hidden-15	9.0740	10.9140
hidden-16	hidden-16	9.0800	10.9200
hidden-17	hidden-17	9.4230	11.2630
hidden-18	hidden-18	9.7720	11.6120
hidden-19	hidden-19	9.7720	11.6120
hidden-20	hidden-20	9.9800	11.8200
hidden-21	hidden-21	9.9810	11.8210
hidden-22	hidden-22	10.1210	11.9610
hidden-23	hidden-23	10.1210	11.9610

Best AI models you can run on this instance

Top open-weight chat models ranked by Intelligence Index that fit in Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5's 94 GB of GPU memory. VRAM is estimated from the parameter count at the selected quantization, so treat it as guidance rather than a guarantee.

Chat Models

FP16 (full precision)

Model	Creator	Intelligence	Total params	Active params	~VRAM
Qwen3.6 27B	Alibaba	37.1#53	27B	—	65 GB
Qwen3.5 27B	Alibaba	33.8#75	27B	—	65 GB
Qwen3.6 35B A3B	Alibaba	31.6#94	35B	3B	84 GB
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