On-demand, Linux
$3.2328/ hr
$2,359.94/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.389329/ hr
Lowest in Columbus (us-east5)
Spot, Linux
$0.49824/ hr
Lowest in Netherlands (europe-west4)
Per unit
$0.0449/ vCPU-hr
$0.011225 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
72vCPUs
72 cores • Arm64
Memory
288GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: Arm64
CPU: Arm
Physical cores: 72

On AWS

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

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs c4a-standard-72
c4a-standard-72This page · Google Cloud, us-east472 vCPU · 288 GiB$3.2328/hr—
m8g.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 72 vCPU and 288 GiB, the nearest size up; Arm on both; 72 physical cores vs 9696 vCPU · 384 GiB$4.30848/hr33% more
m9g.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 72 vCPU and 288 GiB, the nearest size up; Arm on both; 72 physical cores vs 9696 vCPU · 384 GiB$4.69632/hr45% more
m8gb.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 72 vCPU and 288 GiB, the nearest size up; Arm on both; 72 physical cores vs 9696 vCPU · 384 GiB$6.9840/hr116% 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-hour288 GiB$1.01088
On-demand, Linux$3.2328

Rates by region

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

Lowest$3.2328 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$5.17392 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions32With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$3.559651
asia-east1
Taiwan
$3.743259
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$4.151561
asia-south1
Mumbai
$3.361968
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$3.988306
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$4.347147
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$4.041504
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$4.20192
europe-central2
Warsaw
$3.911612
europe-north1
Finland
$3.559636
europe-north2
Stockholm
$3.394368
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$3.814776
europe-west1
Belgium
$3.559636
europe-west2
London
$3.685248
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$3.814776
europe-west4
Netherlands
$3.394368
europe-west6
Zurich
$4.235054
me-central1
Doha
$3.927874
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$5.17392
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$3.559636
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$3.559636
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$3.523752
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$5.133363
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$4.622832
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$3.2328
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$3.2328
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$3.2328
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$3.2328
us-south1
Dallas
$3.814776
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$3.2328
us-west2
Los Angeles
$3.886149
us-west4
Las Vegas
$3.641102

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. c4a-standard-72 is priced in the 32 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