On-demand, Linux
$22.714021/ hr
$16,581.24/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$10.22123/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$3.854867/ hr
Lowest in Paris (europe-west9)
Per unit
$0.078868/ vCPU-hr
$0.010177 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
288vCPUs
144 cores • x86-64
Memory
2,232GiB
7.75 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 7.75
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 144
Local SSD: 18,000 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c4-highmem-288-lssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4-highmem-288-lssd
c4-highmem-288-lssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east4288 vCPU · 2,232 GiB$22.714021/hr—
r8id.96xlarge384 vCPU and 3072 GiB for 288 vCPU and 2232 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 144 physical cores vs 192384 vCPU · 3,072 GiB$31.93344/hr41% more
r8idb.96xlarge384 vCPU and 3072 GiB for 288 vCPU and 2232 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 144 physical cores vs 192384 vCPU · 3,072 GiB$45.01824/hr98% more
r8idn.96xlarge384 vCPU and 3072 GiB for 288 vCPU and 2232 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 144 physical cores vs 192384 vCPU · 3,072 GiB$45.01824/hr98% 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
vCPUC4 Instance Core running in Americas
4AA0-9497-B351
$0.03465 per hour288 vCPU$9.9792
MemoryC4 Instance Ram running in Americas
E259-34D3-C50F
$0.003938 per GiB-hour2,232 GiB$8.789616
Local SSDC4 Instance Local SSD running in Americas
E0C4-9777-003A
$0.16 per GiB-month18,000 GiB$3.945205
On-demand, Linux$22.714021

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

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 288 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $13.2480/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$22.714021 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$36.067497 / hrSao Paulo (southamerica-east1)
Regions36With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$25.010504$38.258504
asia-east1
Taiwan
$26.300465$39.548465
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$31.774544$45.022544
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$29.169298$42.417298
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$29.169298$42.417298
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$29.169298$42.417298
asia-south1
Mumbai
$23.622582$36.870582
asia-south2
Delhi
$23.623193$36.871193
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$28.022241$41.270241
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$30.543498$43.791498
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$28.392527$41.640527
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$29.528228$42.776228
europe-north1
Finland
$25.01051$38.25851
europe-north2
Stockholm
$23.849723$37.097723
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$26.802545$40.050545
europe-west1
Belgium
$25.01051$38.25851
europe-west2
London
$25.893984$39.141984
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$26.802545$40.050545
europe-west4
Netherlands
$23.849723$37.097723
europe-west6
Zurich
$29.756679$43.004679
europe-west8
Milan
$26.348265$39.596265
europe-west9
Paris
$26.348265$39.596265
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$25.01051$38.25851
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$25.01051$38.25851
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$24.758283$38.006283
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
Highest
$36.067497$49.315497
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$32.481051$45.729051
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$22.714021$35.962021
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$22.714021$35.962021
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$22.714021$35.962021
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$22.714021$35.962021
us-south1
Dallas
$26.802545$40.050545
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$22.714021$35.962021
us-west2
Los Angeles
$27.304626$40.552626
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$27.304626$40.552626
us-west4
Las Vegas
$25.582852$38.830852

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4-highmem-288-lssd is priced in the 36 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 C4 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. C4 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other C4 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
c4-highcpu-224$0.085052/hr
c4-standard-227$0.096866/hr
c4-highmem-2215$0.12837/hr
c4-highcpu-448$0.170104/hr
c4-standard-4415$0.19767/hr
c4-standard-4-lssd415$0.279862/hr
c4-highmem-4431$0.260678/hr
c4-highmem-4-lssd431$0.34287/hr
c4-highcpu-8816$0.340208/hr
c4-standard-8830$0.39534/hr
c4-standard-8-lssd830$0.477532/hr
c4-highmem-8862$0.521356/hr
c4-highmem-8-lssd862$0.603548/hr
c4-highcpu-161632$0.680416/hr
c4-standard-161660$0.79068/hr
c4-standard-16-lssd1660$0.955064/hr
c4-highmem-1616124$1.042712/hr
c4-highmem-16-lssd16124$1.207096/hr
c4-highcpu-242448$1.020624/hr
c4-standard-242490$1.18602/hr
c4-standard-24-lssd2490$1.514787/hr
c4-highmem-2424186$1.564068/hr
c4-highmem-24-lssd24186$1.892835/hr
c4-highcpu-323264$1.360832/hr
c4-standard-3232120$1.58136/hr
c4-standard-32-lssd32120$1.992319/hr
c4-highmem-3232248$2.085424/hr
c4-highmem-32-lssd32248$2.496383/hr
c4-highcpu-484896$2.041248/hr
c4-standard-4848180$2.37204/hr
c4-standard-48-lssd48180$3.029574/hr
c4-highmem-4848372$3.128136/hr
c4-highmem-48-lssd48372$3.78567/hr
c4-highcpu-9696192$4.082496/hr
c4-standard-9696360$4.74408/hr
c4-standard-96-lssd96360$6.059148/hr
c4-highmem-9696744$6.256272/hr
c4-highmem-96-lssd96744$7.57134/hr
c4-highcpu-144144288$6.123744/hr
c4-standard-144144540$7.11612/hr
c4-standard-144-lssd144540$9.088723/hr
c4-highmem-1441441,116$9.384408/hr
c4-highmem-144-lssd1441,116$11.357011/hr
c4-highcpu-192192384$8.164992/hr
c4-standard-192192720$9.48816/hr
c4-standard-192-lssd192720$12.118297/hr
c4-highmem-1921921,488$12.512544/hr
c4-highmem-192-lssd1921,488$15.142681/hr
c4-highcpu-288288576$12.247488/hr
c4-standard-2882881,080$14.23224/hr
c4-standard-288-lssd2881,080$18.177445/hr
c4-standard-288-lssd-metal2881,080$14.725391/hr
c4-standard-288-metal2881,080$14.23224/hr
c4-highmem-2882882,232$18.768816/hr
c4-highmem-288-lssd2882,232$22.714021/hr
c4-highmem-288-lssd-metal2882,232$19.261967/hr
c4-highmem-288-metal2882,232$18.768816/hr