On-demand, Linux
$5.09291/ hr
$3,717.82/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$2.291818/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.889218/ hr
Lowest in Osaka (asia-northeast2)
Per unit
$0.057874/ vCPU-hr
$0.014468 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
88vCPUs
44 cores • x86-64
Memory
352GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 44
Local SSD: 6,000 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c3-standard-88-lssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c3-standard-88-lssd
c3-standard-88-lssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east488 vCPU · 352 GiB$5.158664/hr—
m5d.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 88 vCPU and 352 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 44 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 384 GiB$5.4240/hr5.1% more
m6id.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 88 vCPU and 352 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 44 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 384 GiB$5.6952/hr10% more
m8id.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 88 vCPU and 352 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 44 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 384 GiB$6.26496/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 hour88 vCPU$3.0492
MemoryC3 Instance Ram running in Americas
071C-145A-16E0
$0.003938 per GiB-hour352 GiB$1.386176
Local SSDSSD backed Local Storage
62AF-A39E-269B
$0.08 per GiB-month6,000 GiB$0.657534
On-demand, Linux$5.09291

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

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 88 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.0480/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$5.09291 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$8.148656 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions20With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$6.550705$10.598705
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$6.550705$10.598705
asia-south1
Mumbai
$5.401832$9.449832
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$6.195211$10.243211
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$6.431891$10.479891
europe-west1
Belgium
$5.541327$9.589327
europe-west2
London
$5.84537$9.89337
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$6.022785$10.070785
europe-west4
Netherlands
$5.380432$9.428432
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$8.148656$12.196656
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$5.602201$9.650201
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$5.60708$9.65508
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$8.029235$12.077235
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$5.09291$9.14091
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$5.09291$9.14091
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$5.158664$9.206664
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$5.09291$9.14091
us-south1
Dallas
$6.009634$10.057634
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$5.09291$9.14091
us-west4
Las Vegas
$5.718852$9.766852

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c3-standard-88-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