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REDDIT · REDDIT// 17d agoINFRASTRUCTURE
Azure NCads H100 v5 up for rent
A Reddit user says they have unused Azure H100 quota in US regions and are offering hourly or daily access with root privileges, reportedly below Azure's list pricing, for fine-tuning or inference. It is basically a secondary-market listing for scarce GPU capacity rather than a formal product launch.
// ANALYSIS
This is what scarcity looks like once it becomes liquid: the quota itself becomes the product. For teams blocked by Azure capacity, the fastest path is now a rented VM, not a portal request.
- –Microsoft's NCads H100 v5 docs position the series for applied AI training and batch inference, which fits the pitch well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ncadsh100v5-series
- –Microsoft lists Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5 at 40 vCPUs, 320 GiB memory, and 1 H100 GPU with 94 GB accelerator memory, so the post's 80GB wording should be verified before paying.
- –Hourly/daily access with root is attractive for short-lived experiments, but trust and tenant isolation become the real buying criteria.
- –This feels more like a capacity-market signal than a startup announcement.
- –Reddit listing: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s387b8/anyone_need_h100_gpu_time_have_spare_azure_quota/
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ncads-h100-v5gpucloudinferencefine-tuningpricing
DISCOVERED
17d ago
2026-03-25
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18d ago
2026-03-25
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