On-demand, Linux
$0.260678/ hr
$190.29/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.117304/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.042684/ hr
Lowest in Tel Aviv (me-west1)
Per unit
$0.06517/ vCPU-hr
$0.008409 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
4vCPUs
2 cores • x86-64
Memory
31GiB
7.75 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 7.75
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 2

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c4-highmem-4 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4-highmem-4
c4-highmem-4This page · Google Cloud, us-east44 vCPU · 31 GiB$0.260678/hr—
r5.xlarge4 vCPU and 32 GiB for 4 vCPU and 31 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both4 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.2520/hr3.3% less
r6i.xlarge4 vCPU and 32 GiB for 4 vCPU and 31 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both4 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.2520/hr3.3% less
r7i.xlarge4 vCPU and 32 GiB for 4 vCPU and 31 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both4 vCPU · 32 GiB$0.2646/hr1.5% 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 hour4 vCPU$0.1386
MemoryC4 Instance Ram running in Americas
E259-34D3-C50F
$0.003938 per GiB-hour31 GiB$0.122078
On-demand, Linux$0.260678

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$0.260678 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$0.417085 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions43With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$0.287032$0.471032
asia-east1
Taiwan
$0.301839$0.485839
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$0.364662$0.548662
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$0.334763$0.518763
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$0.334763$0.518763
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$0.334763$0.518763
asia-south1
Mumbai
$0.271105$0.455105
asia-south2
Delhi
$0.271114$0.455114
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$0.321598$0.505598
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$0.350534$0.534534
asia-southeast3
Bangkok
$0.273705$0.457705
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$0.325847$0.509848
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$0.338881$0.522881
europe-central2
Warsaw
$0.315404$0.499404
europe-north1
Finland
$0.287033$0.471033
europe-north2
Stockholm
$0.273712$0.457712
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$0.3076$0.4916
europe-west1
Belgium
$0.287033$0.471033
europe-west10
Berlin
$0.307586$0.491586
europe-west12
Turin
$0.336275$0.520275
europe-west2
London
$0.297173$0.481173
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$0.3076$0.4916
europe-west4
Netherlands
$0.273712$0.457712
europe-west6
Zurich
$0.341506$0.525506
europe-west8
Milan
$0.302386$0.486386
europe-west9
Paris
$0.302386$0.486386
me-central1
Doha
$0.316724$0.500724
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$0.417085$0.601085
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$0.286746$0.470746
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$0.287033$0.471033
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$0.287033$0.471033
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$0.284139$0.468139
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$0.413931$0.597931
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$0.37277$0.55677
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$0.260678$0.444678
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$0.260678$0.444678
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$0.260678$0.444678
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$0.260678$0.444678
us-south1
Dallas
$0.3076$0.4916
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$0.260678$0.444678
us-west2
Los Angeles
$0.313361$0.497361
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$0.313361$0.497361
us-west4
Las Vegas
$0.293602$0.477602

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4-highmem-4 is priced in the 43 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 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. 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