Standard_L16s

Standard_L16s is an Azure VM size with 16 vCPUs, 128 GiB memory. In Australia East it costs $1.496 per hour on demand ($1,092.08 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.2766 per hour. It is sold in 13 regions; the cheapest is West US 2 at $1.248 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
West US 2 westus2	$1.248	$0.2306	$0.8611	$0.5866
East US 2 eastus2	$1.373	$0.4718	$0.9474	$0.6453
Canada Central canadacentral	$1.376	$0.3792	$1.046	$0.7568
Canada East canadaeast	$1.376	$0.2543	$1.046	$0.7568
West US westus	$1.376	$0.2543	$0.9494	$0.6467
UK South uksouth	$1.448	$0.2676	$1.101	$0.7964
Japan East japaneast	$1.464	$0.2705	$1.113	$0.8052
West Europe westeurope	$1.488	$0.275	$1.131	$0.8184
Australia East australiaeast	$1.496	$0.2766	$1.137	$0.8228
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$1.496	$0.2765	$1.137	$0.8228
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$1.504	$0.2779	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$1.504	$0.2779	–	–
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$1.504	$0.2779	–	–

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region AWS equivalents

Prices by operating system in Australia East

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$1.496	–	–
Windows	$2.232	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	16
Physical cores	16
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
ACU (compute units)	180

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	128

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	8

Storage	Value
Temp disk	2,807 GiB
Max data disks	64
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	20,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	500 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_L16s
Family	Ls
VM generations	V1, V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Retirement date	2028-05-01

Other	Value
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_L16s

Other generations

vs Standard_L16s_v2

Other Ls sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_L4s	4	32	$0.374
Standard_L8s	8	64	$0.748
Standard_L16s	16	128	$1.496
Standard_L32s	32	256	$2.992

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.