A family
The A family has 17 sizes on Azure VM, from 1 to 16 vCPUs and 0.75 to 112 GiB of memory. In East US, on-demand prices run $0.018 to $1.95 per hour for Linux. It is sold in 42 regions and listed as general purpose and high performance compute.
Sizes and prices in East US
| Type | vCPUs | Memory (GiB) | On-demand /hr | Spot /hr | 1-yr reserved /hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic_A0 | 1 | 0.75 | $0.018 | $0.0162 | – |
| Standard_A0 | 1 | 0.75 | $0.02 | $0.018 | – |
| Basic_A1 | 1 | 1.75 | $0.023 | $0.0207 | – |
| Standard_A1 | 1 | 1.75 | $0.06 | $0.054 | – |
| Basic_A2 | 2 | 3.5 | $0.079 | $0.0711 | – |
| Standard_A2 | 2 | 3.5 | $0.12 | $0.108 | – |
| Standard_A5 | 2 | 14 | $0.25 | $0.225 | – |
| Basic_A3 | 4 | 7 | $0.176 | $0.1584 | – |
| Standard_A3 | 4 | 7 | $0.24 | $0.216 | – |
| Standard_A6 | 4 | 28 | $0.5 | $0.45 | – |
| Basic_A4 | 8 | 14 | $0.352 | $0.3168 | – |
| Standard_A4 | 8 | 14 | $0.48 | $0.432 | – |
| Standard_A7 | 8 | 56 | $1.00 | $0.9 | – |
| Standard_A8 | 8 | 56 | $0.975 | $0.8775 | – |
| Standard_A10 | 8 | 56 | $0.78 | $0.702 | – |
| Standard_A9 | 16 | 112 | $1.95 | $1.755 | – |
| Standard_A11 | 16 | 112 | $1.56 | $1.404 | – |
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Prices in USD per hour for Linux; reserved prices are 1 year, no upfront. Updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.