On-demand, Linux
$1.189615/ hr
$868.42/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.506199/ hr
Lowest in Columbus (us-east5)
Spot, Linux
$0.183294/ hr
Lowest in Netherlands (europe-west4)
Per unit
$0.074351/ vCPU-hr
$0.009294 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
16vCPUs
16 cores • Arm64
Memory
128GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: Arm64
CPU: Arm
Physical cores: 16
Local SSD: 1,500 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c4a-highmem-16-lssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4a-highmem-16-lssd
c4a-highmem-16-lssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east416 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.189615/hr—
r6gd.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 128 GiB; Arm on both16 vCPU · 128 GiB$0.9216/hr23% less
r7gd.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 128 GiB; Arm on both16 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.0886/hr8.5% less
r8gd.4xlargesame 16 vCPU and 128 GiB; Arm on both16 vCPU · 128 GiB$1.17568/hr1.2% less

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
vCPUC4A Arm Instance Core running in Americas
B568-2638-C170
$0.03086 per hour16 vCPU$0.49376
MemoryC4A Arm Instance Ram running in Americas
3431-39A9-5749
$0.00351 per GiB-hour128 GiB$0.44928
Local SSDC4A Instance Local SSD running in Americas
3C09-EA4A-68ED
$0.12 per GiB-month1,500 GiB$0.246575
On-demand, Linux$1.189615

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

Rates by region

On-demand: Pay-as-you-go rate, composed from Google's per-vCPU and per-GiB SKUs

Lowest$1.189615 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$1.888994 / hrSao Paulo (southamerica-east1)
Regions31With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$1.309887
asia-east1
Taiwan
$1.37746
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$1.527696
asia-south1
Mumbai
$1.237142
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$1.467621
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$1.599668
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$1.487163
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$1.546148
europe-central2
Warsaw
$1.439412
europe-north1
Finland
$1.309881
europe-north2
Stockholm
$1.249112
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$1.403775
europe-west1
Belgium
$1.309881
europe-west2
London
$1.356104
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$1.403775
europe-west4
Netherlands
$1.249112
europe-west6
Zurich
$1.558379
me-central1
Doha
$1.445391
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$1.309881
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$1.309881
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$1.296687
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
Highest
$1.888994
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$1.701115
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$1.189615
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$1.189615
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$1.189615
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$1.189615
us-south1
Dallas
$1.403775
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$1.189615
us-west2
Los Angeles
$1.430032
us-west4
Las Vegas
$1.339872

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Google doesn't offer Windows on Arm, so c4a-highmem-16-lssd has Linux prices only.

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4a-highmem-16-lssd is priced in the 31 regions where Compute Engine runs it in at least one zone. It may run in only some of a region's zones.
  • 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 C4A 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. C4A gets no sustained-use discount.

Other C4A machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
c4a-highcpu-112$0.03788/hr
c4a-standard-114$0.0449/hr
c4a-highmem-118$0.05894/hr
c4a-highcpu-224$0.07576/hr
c4a-standard-228$0.0898/hr
c4a-highmem-2216$0.11788/hr
c4a-highcpu-448$0.15152/hr
c4a-standard-4416$0.1796/hr
c4a-standard-4-lssd416$0.241244/hr
c4a-highmem-4432$0.23576/hr
c4a-highmem-4-lssd432$0.297404/hr
c4a-highcpu-8816$0.30304/hr
c4a-standard-8832$0.3592/hr
c4a-standard-8-lssd832$0.482488/hr
c4a-highmem-8864$0.47152/hr
c4a-highmem-8-lssd864$0.594808/hr
c4a-highcpu-161632$0.60608/hr
c4a-standard-161664$0.7184/hr
c4a-standard-16-lssd1664$0.964975/hr
c4a-highmem-1616128$0.94304/hr
c4a-highmem-16-lssd16128$1.189615/hr
c4a-highcpu-323264$1.21216/hr
c4a-standard-3232128$1.4368/hr
c4a-standard-32-lssd32128$1.806663/hr
c4a-highmem-3232256$1.88608/hr
c4a-highmem-32-lssd32256$2.255943/hr
c4a-highcpu-484896$1.81824/hr
c4a-standard-4848192$2.1552/hr
c4a-standard-48-lssd48192$2.771638/hr
c4a-highmem-4848384$2.82912/hr
c4a-highmem-48-lssd48384$3.445558/hr
c4a-highcpu-6464128$2.42432/hr
c4a-standard-6464256$2.8736/hr
c4a-standard-64-lssd64256$3.736614/hr
c4a-highmem-6464512$3.77216/hr
c4a-highmem-64-lssd64512$4.635174/hr
c4a-highcpu-7272144$2.72736/hr
c4a-standard-7272288$3.2328/hr
c4a-standard-72-lssd72288$4.219101/hr
c4a-highmem-7272576$4.24368/hr
c4a-highmem-72-lssd72576$5.229981/hr
c4a-highmem-96-metal96768$5.65824/hr