On-demand, Linux
$5.229981/ hr
$3,817.89/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$2.222414/ hr
Lowest in Columbus (us-east5)
Spot, Linux
$0.805815/ hr
Lowest in Netherlands (europe-west4)
Per unit
$0.072639/ vCPU-hr
$0.00908 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
72vCPUs
72 cores • Arm64
Memory
576GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: Arm64
CPU: Arm
Physical cores: 72
Local SSD: 6,000 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to c4a-highmem-72-lssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4a-highmem-72-lssd
c4a-highmem-72-lssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east472 vCPU · 576 GiB$5.229981/hr—
i8ge.18xlargesame 72 vCPU and 576 GiB; Arm on both72 vCPU · 576 GiB$8.5428/hr63% more
i7ie.18xlargesame 72 vCPU and 576 GiB; Arm (arm64) vs Intel (x86_64); 72 physical cores vs 3672 vCPU · 576 GiB$9.3564/hr79% 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
vCPUC4A Arm Instance Core running in Americas
B568-2638-C170
$0.03086 per hour72 vCPU$2.22192
MemoryC4A Arm Instance Ram running in Americas
3431-39A9-5749
$0.00351 per GiB-hour576 GiB$2.02176
Local SSDC4A Instance Local SSD running in Americas
3C09-EA4A-68ED
$0.12 per GiB-month6,000 GiB$0.986301
On-demand, Linux$5.229981

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$5.229981 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$8.304704 / hrSao Paulo (southamerica-east1)
Regions31With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$5.758742
asia-east1
Taiwan
$6.055812
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$6.716308
asia-south1
Mumbai
$5.438921
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$6.452197
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$7.032725
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$6.538125
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$6.797392
europe-central2
Warsaw
$6.328186
europe-north1
Finland
$5.758716
europe-north2
Stockholm
$5.491552
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$6.171508
europe-west1
Belgium
$5.758716
europe-west2
London
$5.96192
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$6.171508
europe-west4
Netherlands
$5.491552
europe-west6
Zurich
$6.85121
me-central1
Doha
$6.354463
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$5.758716
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$5.758716
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$5.700708
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
Highest
$8.304704
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$7.478715
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$5.229981
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$5.229981
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$5.229981
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$5.229981
us-south1
Dallas
$6.171508
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$5.229981
us-west2
Los Angeles
$6.286944
us-west4
Las Vegas
$5.890559

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Google doesn't offer Windows on Arm, so c4a-highmem-72-lssd has Linux prices only.

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4a-highmem-72-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