I should clarify to say, for my current use cases I have found I get charged for way more resources than I would expect to be and Azure's billing breakdowns are

I should clarify to say, for my current use cases I have found I get charged for way more resources than I would expect to be and Azure's billing breakdowns are so useless and difficult to parse that I can't figure out where the extra charges are coming from :D But could be a PEBCAK error. In any case, I think you are right that apples-to-apples for most things they generally shake out the same in theory.