Standard_NP40s
Azure Virtual Machine: NP40s with 40 vCPUs and 672 GiB of memory. Available in 7 regions starting from $4,818.00 per month. A -46.35% cheaper alternative is available.
| Standard_NP40s |
| Standard is recommended tier N – GPU enabled P – FPGA optimized 40 – The number of vCPUs s – Premium Storage capable |
| 40 |
| x64 |
| 672 |
| V1,V2 |
| 0 |
| 4 |
| AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB) |
| 64 |
| 256 |
| 8 |
| no |
| yes |
| 1023 GiB |
| 2948 GiB |
| 32 |
| yes |
| 0 |
| 80000 |
Regional Prices
Region Name | Region ID | Linux Price | Windows Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| East US | eastus | 6.6000 | 8.4400 |
| West US 2 | westus2 | 6.6000 | 8.4400 |
| Canada Central | canadacentral | 7.9200 | 9.7600 |
| hidden-1 | hidden-1 | 7.9200 | 9.7600 |
| hidden-2 | hidden-2 | 8.5800 | 10.4200 |
| hidden-3 | hidden-3 | 8.5800 | 10.4200 |
| hidden-4 | hidden-4 | 9.5700 | 11.4100 |
Best AI models you can run on this instance
Top open-weight chat models ranked by Intelligence Index that fit in Standard_NP40s's 256 GB of GPU memory, assuming the model is sharded across all 4 GPUs. 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#54 | 27B | — | 65 GB | |
| Qwen3.5 27B | Alibaba | 33.8#77 | 27B | — | 65 GB | |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3B | Alibaba | 31.6#95 | 35B | 3B | 84 GB | |
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