On-demand, Linux
$29.38708/ hr
$21,452.57/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$10.285667/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$13.91796/ hr
Lowest in Netherlands (europe-west4)
Per unit
$0.306115/ vCPU-hr
$0.043216 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
96vCPUs
48 cores • x86-64
Memory
680GiB
7.08 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 7.08
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 48
GPU: 8x Nvidia Tesla A100

On AWS

a2-highgpu-8g is an accelerated machine. Those are compared by the accelerator, not by vCPU and memory, so this page doesn't pick a match. Browse AWS machines.

How this price is built

Google bills a VM by its parts, each with its own SKU. These are the parts of the On-demand Linux rate in Iowa (us-central1). The total is the published price; the parts add up to it.

PartSKUGoogle's rateQuantityPer hour
vCPUA2 Instance Core running in Americas
2922-40C5-B19F
$0.031611 per hour96 vCPU$3.034656
MemoryA2 Instance Ram running in Americas
2390-DCAF-DA38
$0.004237 per GiB-hour680 GiB$2.88116
GPUNvidia Tesla A100 GPU running in Americas
039F-D0DA-4055
$2.933908 per hour8 GPU$23.471264
On-demand, Linux$29.38708

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 96 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.4160/hr, the same in every region and on every basis.

Rates by region

On-demand: Pay-as-you-go rate, composed from Google's per-vCPU and per-GiB SKUs

Lowest$29.38708 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$34.600549 / hrSalt Lake City (us-west3)
Regions10With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$32.396727$36.812727
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$32.396727$36.812727
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$32.110063$36.526063
europe-west4
Netherlands
$29.983776$34.399776
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$32.32579$36.74179
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$29.38708$33.80308
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$29.38708$33.80308
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$29.38708$33.80308
us-west3
Salt Lake City
Highest
$34.600549$39.016549
us-west4
Las Vegas
$31.474839$35.890839

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Windows prices include the Windows Server licence.

What the prices include

  • Regions. a2-highgpu-8g is priced in the 10 regions where Compute Engine runs it in at least one zone. It may run in only some of a region's zones.
  • Windows. The Windows Server licence costs $0.046 per visible vCPU per hour. Spot and commitments don't discount it, so it's added at the full rate on every basis.
  • Spot. Google can stop a Spot VM at any time and changes Spot prices up to once every 30 days.
  • Commitments. The 1-yr and 3-yr rates are resource-based committed use discounts: you commit to an amount of A2 vCPU, memory and GPUs in one region and pay for it whether you use it or not. Flexible (spend-based) commitments discount less and aren't shown.
  • Sustained use. A2 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other A2 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
a2-highgpu-1g1285$3.673385/hr
a2-ultragpu-1g12170$5.068798/hr
a2-highgpu-2g24170$7.34677/hr
a2-ultragpu-2g24340$10.137596/hr
a2-highgpu-4g48340$14.69354/hr
a2-ultragpu-4g48680$20.275192/hr
a2-highgpu-8g96680$29.38708/hr
a2-megagpu-16g961,360$55.739504/hr
a2-ultragpu-8g961,360$40.550383/hr