On-demand, Linux
$55.739504/ hr
$40,689.84/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$19.5092/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$26.28456/ hr
Lowest in Netherlands (europe-west4)
Per unit
$0.58062/ vCPU-hr
$0.040985 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
96vCPUs
48 cores • x86-64
Memory
1,360GiB
14.17 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 14.17
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 48
GPU: 16x Nvidia Tesla A100

On AWS

a2-megagpu-16g 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-hour1,360 GiB$5.76232
GPUNvidia Tesla A100 GPU running in Americas
039F-D0DA-4055
$2.933908 per hour16 GPU$46.942528
On-demand, Linux$55.739504

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$55.739504 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$60.476223 / hrSingapore (asia-southeast1)
Regions3With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-southeast1
Singapore
Highest
$60.476223$64.892223
europe-west4
Netherlands
$56.62656$61.04256
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$55.739504$60.155504

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. a2-megagpu-16g is priced in the 3 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