On-demand, Linux
$0.264616/ hr
$193.17/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.119076/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.02492/ hr
Lowest in Delhi (asia-south2)
Per unit
$0.066154/ vCPU-hr
$0.008269 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
4vCPUs
2 cores • x86-64
Memory
32GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 2

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c3-highmem-4 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c3-highmem-4
c3-highmem-4This page · Google Cloud, us-east44 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.264616/hr—
r5.xlargesame 4 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both4 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.2520/hr4.8% less
r6i.xlargesame 4 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both4 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.2520/hr4.8% less
r7i.xlargesame 4 vCPU and 32 GiB; Intel on both4 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.2646/hrSame rate

Matched on vCPU and memory, then CPU vendor, then rate; a larger size is offered only when nothing is the same size. On-demand Linux only: Spot and commitments work differently on the two clouds, so they aren't compared here.

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
vCPUC3 Instance Core running in Americas
E4AE-E326-889C
$0.03465 per hour4 vCPU$0.1386
MemoryC3 Instance Ram running in Americas
071C-145A-16E0
$0.003938 per GiB-hour32 GiB$0.126016
On-demand, Linux$0.264616

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 4 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.1840/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$0.264616 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$0.423386 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions25With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-east1
Taiwan
$0.306399$0.490399
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$0.33982$0.52382
asia-south1
Mumbai
$0.275201$0.459201
asia-south2
Delhi
$0.275209$0.459209
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$0.326457$0.510457
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$0.355829$0.539829
europe-west1
Belgium
$0.291369$0.475369
europe-west10
Berlin
$0.312232$0.496232
europe-west2
London
$0.301662$0.485662
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$0.312247$0.496247
europe-west4
Netherlands
$0.277847$0.461847
me-central1
Doha
$0.321508$0.505508
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$0.423386$0.607386
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$0.291369$0.475369
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$0.291369$0.475369
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$0.420184$0.604184
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$0.264616$0.448616
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$0.264616$0.448616
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$0.264616$0.448616
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$0.264616$0.448616
us-south1
Dallas
$0.312247$0.496247
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$0.264616$0.448616
us-west2
Los Angeles
$0.318095$0.502095
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$0.318095$0.502095
us-west4
Las Vegas
$0.298037$0.482037

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c3-highmem-4 is priced in the 25 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 C3 vCPU and memory 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. C3 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other C3 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
c3-highcpu-448$0.170104/hr
c3-standard-4416$0.201608/hr
c3-standard-4-lssd416$0.242704/hr
c3-highmem-4432$0.264616/hr
c3-highcpu-8816$0.340208/hr
c3-standard-8832$0.403216/hr
c3-standard-8-lssd832$0.485408/hr
c3-highmem-8864$0.529232/hr
c3-highcpu-222244$0.935572/hr
c3-standard-222288$1.108844/hr
c3-standard-22-lssd2288$1.273228/hr
c3-highmem-2222176$1.455388/hr
c3-highcpu-444488$1.871144/hr
c3-standard-4444176$2.217688/hr
c3-standard-44-lssd44176$2.546455/hr
c3-highmem-4444352$2.910776/hr
c3-highcpu-8888176$3.742288/hr
c3-standard-8888352$4.435376/hr
c3-standard-88-lssd88352$5.09291/hr
c3-highmem-8888704$5.821552/hr
c3-highcpu-176176352$7.484576/hr
c3-standard-176176704$8.870752/hr
c3-standard-176-lssd176704$10.18582/hr
c3-highmem-1761761,408$11.643104/hr
c3-highcpu-192-metal192512$8.669056/hr
c3-standard-192-metal192768$9.677184/hr
c3-highmem-192-metal1921,536$12.701568/hr