Which is cheaper, Amazon SageMaker or Azure Machine Learning?

AWS is cheaper in 2 of 3 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 46.7%.

How do Amazon SageMaker and Azure Machine Learning compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 6, 2026AWSAzure

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

Azure Wins

Ties

AWS wins 2 of 3 price comparisons, averaging 46.7% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.0200/hr to $3.20/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for ML Instance workloads

Comparing Amazon SageMaker and Azure Machine Learning across 3 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon SageMaker	Azure Azure Machine Learning	Diff	Cheapest
Machine Learning - Machine Learning	$0.0360/hr USE1-Bbox:PublicTaskAt0.036 ($26.28/mo)	$0.0200/hr Safety Evaluations Input tokens - Evaluation Input Tokens ($14.60/mo)	+44.4%	Azure
Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker	$0.1510/hr USE1-UnifiedStudio:Notebook-sc.r6i.large ($110.23/mo)	$0.5260/hr NC4asT4 v3 - NC4asT4 v3 Capacity Unit ($383.98/mo)	+71.3%	AWS
ML Instance - ml.r6i.8xlarge	$2.4190/hr ml.r6i.8xlarge ($1,765.87/mo)	$3.2000/hr NV36adsA10v5 - NV36adsA10v5 Capacity Unit ($2,336.00/mo)	+24.4%	AWS