# How do i get GPUs? how much do they cost?

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**Created:** [December 13, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.cloudbank.org/t/how-do-i-get-gpus-how-much-do-they-cost/136 "2022-12-13T20:27:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.cloudbank.org/t/how-do-i-get-gpus-how-much-do-they-cost/136/1 "2022-12-13T20:27:49Z")

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I have to do some heavy computation; so I need 4 A100 GPUs. Is this possible? How much will it cost me?

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**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.cloudbank.org/t/how-do-i-get-gpus-how-much-do-they-cost/136/2 "2022-12-13T20:57:21Z")

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Yes GPUs are available. Let’s take Azure as an example and use a browser search bar. Search on ‘azure 4 a100 gpus’ and scroll down past the “Ad” hits to discover [**ND A100 v4-series - Azure Virtual Machines**](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwip1Mevtff7AhUmJzQIHQwKDCgQFnoECCgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fazure%2Fvirtual-machines%2Fnda100-v4-series&usg=AOvVaw156cNoAQ9zEVTdn9mymO_G)

When I follow this link I get a page of content and a left-side menu that includes links to other  
related pages. This is good because on this page the VM with A100 GPUs attached shows up  
in the table as having _eight_ GPUs which is more than I want. I click on the link for  
**NC A100 v4** and this has a corresponding table that lists the Standard\_NC96ads\_A100\_v4  
as having 4 A100 GPUs so this looks like what I want.

This list of VMs that support GPUs is helpful for shopping around for the right kind of capacity. Other GPUs are features: V100s, T4s and so on. However what is not provided is cost. For that we can go to the [Azure pricing calculator](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/) and choose the VM we identified above. I infer the cost of this VM with 4 A100 cards is just under $20/hour. The 100-hour compute task I have in mind will cost about $2000; really closer to $2500 after I add in some storage and some disk space and so on. The cost is listed as ‘monthly’ but in the concept I have this is a one-time calculation for a specific project. I can stop all the resources and put data in archival storage to drastically cut monthly spend to a few dollars.

For the cost calculator result to persist: Log in to Azure and click \< save \> at the bottom of the page. This gives a shareable persistent URL like [this](https://azure.com/e/c7b8853adf2149de8fbc0cae744ebc44).