Standard_NC6s_v3
Azure Virtual Machine: NC6s_v3 / NC6s v3 with 6 vCPUs and 112 GiB of memory. Available in 25 regions starting from $2,233.80 per month. A -72.88% cheaper alternative is available.
| Standard_NC6s_v3 |
| Standard is recommended tier N – GPU enabled C – High-performance computing and machine learning workloads 6 – The number of vCPUs s – Premium Storage capable v3 – version |
| 6 |
| x64 |
| 112 |
| V1,V2 |
| 0 |
| 1 |
| NVIDIA Tesla V100 |
| 16 |
| 16 |
| 4 |
| no |
| yes |
| 1023 GiB |
| 736 GiB |
| 12 |
| yes |
| 24000 |
| 20000 |
| 201 MiB/Sec |
| 201 MiB/Sec |
Regional Prices
Region Name | Region ID | Linux Price | Windows Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| East US | eastus | 3.0600 | 3.3360 |
| East US 2 | eastus2 | 3.0600 | 3.3408 |
| hidden-1 | hidden-1 | 3.0600 | 3.3360 |
| West US 2 | westus2 | 3.0600 | 3.3360 |
| hidden-2 | hidden-2 | 3.3050 | 3.5810 |
| hidden-3 | hidden-3 | 3.3660 | 3.6420 |
| hidden-4 | hidden-4 | 3.3660 | 3.7708 |
| hidden-5 | hidden-5 | 3.4580 | 3.7340 |
| hidden-6 | hidden-6 | 3.5800 | 3.8560 |
| hidden-7 | hidden-7 | 3.5890 | 3.8650 |
| hidden-8 | hidden-8 | 3.6720 | 4.0400 |
| hidden-9 | hidden-9 | 3.6720 | 4.0400 |
| hidden-10 | hidden-10 | 3.8230 | 4.0990 |
| hidden-11 | hidden-11 | 3.9780 | 4.2540 |
| hidden-12 | hidden-12 | 4.1940 | 4.4700 |
| hidden-13 | hidden-13 | 4.2050 | 4.4810 |
| hidden-14 | hidden-14 | 4.2050 | 4.5090 |
| hidden-15 | hidden-15 | 4.2050 | 4.4810 |
| hidden-16 | hidden-16 | 4.2340 | 4.5100 |
| hidden-17 | hidden-17 | 4.2340 | 4.5100 |
| hidden-18 | hidden-18 | 4.2340 | 4.5100 |
| hidden-19 | hidden-19 | 4.2340 | 4.5100 |
| hidden-20 | hidden-20 | 4.2340 | 4.5100 |
| hidden-21 | hidden-21 | 4.7430 | 5.0190 |
| hidden-22 | hidden-22 | 6.1200 | 6.3960 |
Best AI models you can run on this instance
Top open-weight chat models ranked by Intelligence Index that fit in Standard_NC6s_v3's 16 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 4B |  Alibaba | 27.1#190 | 4B | — | 10 GB | |
| MiniCPM5 1B | Openbmb | 18.2#292 | 1B | — | 2 GB | |
| MiniCPM5 1B Non-Reasoning | Openbmb | 17.9#298 | 1B | — | 2 GB | |
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