On-demand, Linux
$84.806908/ hr
$61,909.04/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$37.208421/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$48.089081/ hr
Lowest in Northern Virginia (us-east4)
Per unit
$0.378602/ vCPU-hr
$0.028729 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
224vCPUs
112 cores • x86-64
Memory
2,952GiB
13.18 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 13.18
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 112
GPU: 8x H200 141GB
Local SSD: 12,000 GiB

On AWS

a3-ultragpu-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
vCPUA3Ultra Instance Core running in Americas
D7CA-41A9-165E
$0.02251 per hour224 vCPU$5.04224
MemoryA3Ultra Instance Ram running in Americas
B564-9C7C-E20C
$0.00134 per GiB-hour2,952 GiB$3.95568
GPUH200 141GB GPU running in Americas
455B-5067-C961
$9.31174 per hour8 GPU$74.49392
Local SSDSSD backed Local Storage
62AF-A39E-269B
$0.08 per GiB-month12,000 GiB$1.315068
On-demand, Linux$84.806908

Google prices Local SSD per GiB-month; the hourly figure divides it by 730 hours.

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 224 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $10.3040/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$84.806908 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$101.773762 / hrMumbai (asia-south1)
Regions5With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-south1
Mumbai
Highest
$101.773762$112.077762
europe-west1
Belgium
$93.262268$103.566268
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$84.806908$95.110908
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$84.938415$95.242415
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$84.806908$95.110908

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. a3-ultragpu-8g is priced in the 5 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 A3 vCPU, memory, GPUs and Local SSD 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. A3 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other A3 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
a3-highgpu-1g26234$11.06125/hr
a3-highgpu-2g52468$22.1225/hr
a3-highgpu-4g104936$44.2450/hr
a3-edgegpu-8g2081,872$88.4900/hr
a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd2081,872$87.832466/hr
a3-highgpu-8g2081,872$88.4900/hr
a3-megagpu-8g2081,872$93.400713/hr
a3-ultragpu-8g2242,952$84.806908/hr
a3-ultragpu-8g-nolssd2242,952$83.49184/hr