On-demand, Linux
$2.546455/ hr
$1,858.91/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.145909/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.444609/ hr
Lowest in Osaka (asia-northeast2)
Per unit
$0.057874/ vCPU-hr
$0.014468 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
44vCPUs
22 cores • x86-64
Memory
176GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 22
Local SSD: 3,000 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c3-standard-44-lssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c3-standard-44-lssd
c3-standard-44-lssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east444 vCPU · 176 GiB$2.579332/hr—
m5d.12xlarge48 vCPU and 192 GiB for 44 vCPU and 176 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 22 physical cores vs 2448 vCPU · 192 GiB$2.7120/hr5.1% more
m6id.12xlarge48 vCPU and 192 GiB for 44 vCPU and 176 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 22 physical cores vs 2448 vCPU · 192 GiB$2.8476/hr10% more
m8id.12xlarge48 vCPU and 192 GiB for 44 vCPU and 176 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 22 physical cores vs 2448 vCPU · 192 GiB$3.13248/hr21% more

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 hour44 vCPU$1.5246
MemoryC3 Instance Ram running in Americas
071C-145A-16E0
$0.003938 per GiB-hour176 GiB$0.693088
Local SSDSSD backed Local Storage
62AF-A39E-269B
$0.08 per GiB-month3,000 GiB$0.328767
On-demand, Linux$2.546455

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

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 44 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $2.0240/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$2.546455 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$4.074328 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions20With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$3.275352$5.299352
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$3.275352$5.299352
asia-south1
Mumbai
$2.700916$4.724916
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$3.097606$5.121606
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$3.215946$5.239946
europe-west1
Belgium
$2.770663$4.794663
europe-west2
London
$2.922685$4.946685
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$3.011392$5.035392
europe-west4
Netherlands
$2.690216$4.714216
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$4.074328$6.098328
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$2.801101$4.825101
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$2.80354$4.82754
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$4.014618$6.038618
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$2.546455$4.570455
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$2.546455$4.570455
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$2.579332$4.603332
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$2.546455$4.570455
us-south1
Dallas
$3.004817$5.028817
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$2.546455$4.570455
us-west4
Las Vegas
$2.859426$4.883426

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c3-standard-44-lssd is priced in the 20 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, memory 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. 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