On-demand, Linux
$3.029574/ hr
$2,211.59/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.363314/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.51403/ hr
Lowest in Paris (europe-west9)
Per unit
$0.063116/ vCPU-hr
$0.016831 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
48vCPUs
24 cores • x86-64
Memory
180GiB
3.75 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 3.75
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 24
Local SSD: 3,000 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c4-standard-48-lssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4-standard-48-lssd
c4-standard-48-lssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east448 vCPU · 180 GiB$3.029574/hr—
m5d.12xlarge48 vCPU and 192 GiB for 48 vCPU and 180 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both48 vCPU · 192 GiB$2.7120/hr10% less
m6id.12xlarge48 vCPU and 192 GiB for 48 vCPU and 180 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both48 vCPU · 192 GiB$2.8476/hr6.0% less
m8id.12xlarge48 vCPU and 192 GiB for 48 vCPU and 180 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both48 vCPU · 192 GiB$3.13248/hr3.4% 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 hour48 vCPU$1.6632
MemoryC4 Instance Ram running in Americas
E259-34D3-C50F
$0.003938 per GiB-hour180 GiB$0.70884
Local SSDC4 Instance Local SSD running in Americas
E0C4-9777-003A
$0.16 per GiB-month3,000 GiB$0.657534
On-demand, Linux$3.029574

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

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 48 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $2.2080/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$3.029574 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$4.810645 / hrSao Paulo (southamerica-east1)
Regions36With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$3.33588$5.54388
asia-east1
Taiwan
$3.507927$5.715927
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$4.238055$6.446055
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$3.890571$6.098571
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$3.890571$6.098571
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$3.890571$6.098571
asia-south1
Mumbai
$3.150757$5.358757
asia-south2
Delhi
$3.150834$5.358834
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$3.737578$5.945578
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$4.073861$6.281861
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$3.786968$5.994968
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$3.938447$6.146447
europe-north1
Finland
$3.335881$5.543881
europe-north2
Stockholm
$3.181053$5.389053
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$3.574898$5.782898
europe-west1
Belgium
$3.335881$5.543881
europe-west2
London
$3.453715$5.661715
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$3.574898$5.782898
europe-west4
Netherlands
$3.181053$5.389053
europe-west6
Zurich
$3.968908$6.176908
europe-west8
Milan
$3.514306$5.722306
europe-west9
Paris
$3.514306$5.722306
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$3.335881$5.543881
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$3.335881$5.543881
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$3.302236$5.510236
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
Highest
$4.810645$7.018645
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$4.332291$6.540291
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$3.029574$5.237574
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$3.029574$5.237574
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$3.029574$5.237574
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$3.029574$5.237574
us-south1
Dallas
$3.574898$5.782898
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$3.029574$5.237574
us-west2
Los Angeles
$3.641868$5.849868
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$3.641868$5.849868
us-west4
Las Vegas
$3.412218$5.620218

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4-standard-48-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