On-demand, Linux
$2.82912/ hr
$2,065.26/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.185719/ hr
Lowest in Columbus (us-east5)
Spot, Linux
$0.43584/ hr
Lowest in Netherlands (europe-west4)
Per unit
$0.05894/ vCPU-hr
$0.007368 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
48vCPUs
48 cores • Arm64
Memory
384GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: Arm64
CPU: Arm
Physical cores: 48

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c4a-highmem-48 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4a-highmem-48
c4a-highmem-48This page · Google Cloud, us-east448 vCPU · 384 GiB$2.82912/hr—
r6g.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Arm on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$2.4192/hr14% less
r7g.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Arm on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$2.5704/hr9.1% less
r8g.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Arm on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$2.82768/hr0.1% 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 hour48 vCPU$1.48128
MemoryC4A Arm Instance Ram running in Americas
3431-39A9-5749
$0.00351 per GiB-hour384 GiB$1.34784
On-demand, Linux$2.82912

Rates by region

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

Lowest$2.82912 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$4.49236 / hrSao Paulo (southamerica-east1)
Regions31With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$3.115162
asia-east1
Taiwan
$3.275838
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$3.633155
asia-south1
Mumbai
$2.942112
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$3.490286
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$3.804319
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$3.536832
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$3.6768
europe-central2
Warsaw
$3.423229
europe-north1
Finland
$3.115144
europe-north2
Stockholm
$2.970624
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$3.338448
europe-west1
Belgium
$3.115144
europe-west2
London
$3.225024
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$3.338448
europe-west4
Netherlands
$2.970624
europe-west6
Zurich
$3.706158
me-central1
Doha
$3.437405
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$3.115144
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$3.115144
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$3.08376
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
Highest
$4.49236
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$4.045536
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$2.82912
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$2.82912
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$2.82912
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$2.82912
us-south1
Dallas
$3.338448
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$2.82912
us-west2
Los Angeles
$3.400885
us-west4
Las Vegas
$3.186437

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Google doesn't offer Windows on Arm, so c4a-highmem-48 has Linux prices only.

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4a-highmem-48 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 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. 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