Instances Azure VM Standard_NP20s Standard_NP20s
Standard_NP20s is an Azure VM size with 20 vCPUs, 336 GiB memory, 2 GPUs (Intel Xeon 8171M (Skylake)). In East US it costs $3.30 per hour on demand ($2,409.00 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.6098 per hour. It is sold in 7 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 $3.30 $0.6098 – – $2.395 $1.719 West US 2 westus2 $3.30 $0.6098 $2.082 $1.432 $2.395 $1.719 Canada Central canadacentral $3.96 $0.7318 – – $2.874 $2.076 South Central US southcentralus $3.96 $0.7318 – – $2.874 $2.076 Southeast Asia southeastasia $4.29 $0.7928 – – $3.113 $2.249 West Europe westeurope $4.29 $0.7928 – – $3.094 $2.249 Japan East japaneast $4.785 $0.8843 – – $3.473 $2.509
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $3.30 – – Windows $4.22 – –
Compute Value vCPUs 20 Physical cores 20 Threads per core 1 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon 8171M (Skylake)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 336
Accelerators Value GPUs 2 GPU AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64 GB)
Networking Value Network 15 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 8
Storage Value Storage 1474 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 1,474 GiB Max data disks 16 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 40,000 Max disk throughput (uncached) 614 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_NP20s Family NPs Category FPGA accelerated VM generations V1, V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series np-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .