Instances Azure VM Standard_M12ds_v3 Standard_M12ds_v3
Standard_M12ds_v3 is an Azure VM size with 12 vCPUs, 240 GiB memory (Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)). In East US it costs $1.63 per hour on demand ($1,189.90 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.9481 per hour, 42% less. Spot capacity is about $0.3012 per hour. It is sold in 33 regions.
USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.
Region On-demand Spot 1-yr reserved 3-yr reserved 1-yr savings plan 3-yr savings plan East US eastus $1.63 $0.3012 $0.9481 $0.4577 $1.125 $0.5703 East US 2 eastus2 $1.63 $0.3012 $0.9481 $0.4577 $1.125 $0.5703 North Central US northcentralus $1.63 $0.3012 $0.9492 $0.4583 $1.125 $0.5703 West US 2 westus2 $1.63 $0.3012 $0.9481 $0.4577 $1.125 $0.5703 West US 3 westus3 $1.63 $0.3012 $0.9492 $0.4583 $1.125 $0.5703 India South Central indiasouthcentral $1.672 $0.309 $0.9727 $0.4696 – – Central India centralindia $1.68 $0.3105 $0.9792 $0.4728 $1.159 $0.5878 Jio India West jioindiawest $1.68 – – – – – Canada Central canadacentral $1.793 $0.3313 $1.043 $0.5034 $1.237 $0.6274 Central US centralus $1.84 $0.34 $0.9481 $0.4577 $1.122 $0.5686 Malaysia West malaysiawest $1.907 $0.3524 $1.109 $0.5355 $1.316 $0.6673 Indonesia Central indonesiacentral $1.908 $0.3526 $1.111 $0.5361 $1.316 $0.6676 Australia East australiaeast $1.955 $0.3613 $1.137 $0.549 $1.349 $0.6841 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $1.956 $0.3615 $1.138 $0.5492 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $1.956 $0.3615 $1.138 $0.5492 – – North Europe northeurope $1.96 $0.3622 $1.14 $0.5504 $1.352 $0.6858 South Central US southcentralus $1.96 $0.3622 $1.139 $0.5499 $1.352 $0.6858 New Zealand North newzealandnorth $2.053 $0.3794 $1.194 $0.5764 $1.416 $0.7183 UK South uksouth $2.06 $0.3807 $1.196 $0.5774 $1.421 $0.7208 West US westus $2.119 $0.3916 $1.232 $0.595 $1.462 $0.7414 Southeast Asia southeastasia $2.12 $0.3918 $1.234 $0.5957 $1.463 $0.7418 Taiwan North taiwannorth $2.12 $0.3918 $1.234 $0.5957 $1.463 $0.7418 UAE North uaenorth $2.15 $0.3973 $1.25 $0.6 – – Germany West Central germanywestcentral $2.28 $0.4213 $1.329 $0.6416 $1.573 $0.7978 Sweden Central swedencentral $2.28 $0.4213 $1.329 $0.6416 $1.573 $0.7978 West Europe westeurope $2.28 $0.4213 $1.326 $0.6402 $1.573 $0.7978 Japan East japaneast $2.364 $0.4368 $1.375 $0.6637 $1.631 $0.827 Japan West japanwest $2.364 $0.4368 $1.375 $0.6637 $1.631 $0.827 Korea Central koreacentral $2.366 $0.4373 $1.376 $0.6645 $1.633 $0.828 South India southindia $2.46 $0.4546 $1.433 $0.692 $1.697 $0.8608 Switzerland North switzerlandnorth $2.51 $0.4638 $1.462 $0.7058 $1.732 $0.8782 East Asia eastasia $2.53 $0.4675 $1.471 $0.7103 $1.745 $0.8851 Brazil South brazilsouth $3.179 $0.5874 $1.849 $0.8925 $2.193 $1.112
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $1.63 $0.9481 $0.4577 Windows $2.18 $1.498 $1.008
Compute Value vCPUs 12 Physical cores 6 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon 4th Gen Scalable (Sapphire Rapids)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 240
Networking Value Network 4 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 4
Storage Value Storage 400 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 400 GiB Max data disks 64 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 16,250 Max disk throughput (uncached) 390 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_M12ds_v3 Family Mdsv3 Category Memory optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series mdsv3-mm-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .