Instances Azure VM Standard_NP40s Standard_NP40s
Standard_NP40s is an Azure VM size with 40 vCPUs, 672 GiB memory, 4 GPUs (Intel Xeon 8171M (Skylake)). In East US it costs $6.60 per hour on demand ($4,818.00 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $1.22 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 $6.60 $1.22 – – $4.79 $3.437 West US 2 westus2 $6.60 $1.22 $4.165 $2.864 $4.79 $3.437 Canada Central canadacentral $7.92 $1.464 – – $5.747 $4.152 South Central US southcentralus $7.92 $1.464 – – $5.747 $4.152 Southeast Asia southeastasia $8.58 $1.586 – – $6.226 $4.498 West Europe westeurope $8.58 $1.586 – – $6.189 $4.498 Japan East japaneast $9.57 $1.768 – – $6.945 $5.018
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $6.60 – – Windows $8.44 – –
Compute Value vCPUs 40 Physical cores 40 Threads per core 1 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon 8171M (Skylake)
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 672
Accelerators Value GPUs 4 GPU AMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64 GB)
Networking Value Network 30 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 8
Storage Value Storage 2948 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 2,948 GiB Max data disks 32 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 80,000 Max disk throughput (uncached) 1,229 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_NP40s 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 .