On-demand, Linux
$0.997141/ hr
$727.91/mo · lowest in Northern Virginia (us-east4)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.448713/ hr
Lowest in Northern Virginia (us-east4)
Spot, Linux
$0.433056/ hr
Lowest in Seoul (asia-northeast3)
Per unit
$0.083095/ vCPU-hr
$0.020774 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
12vCPUs
6 cores • x86-64
Memory
48GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 6
GPU: 1x Nvidia L4

On AWS

g2-standard-12 is an accelerated machine. Those are compared by the accelerator, not by vCPU and memory, so this page doesn't pick a match. Browse AWS machines.

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 Northern Virginia (us-east4). The total is the published price; the parts add up to it.

PartSKUGoogle's rateQuantityPer hour
vCPUG2 Instance Core running in Virginia
CF07-A027-C390
$0.024906 per hour12 vCPU$0.298877
MemoryG2 Instance Ram running in Virginia
A15F-B56F-97FE
$0.002918 per GiB-hour48 GiB$0.140057
GPUNvidia L4 GPU running in Virginia
1D4C-3419-0297
$0.558206 per hour1 GPU$0.558206
On-demand, Linux$0.997141

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 12 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.5520/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$0.997141 / hrNorthern Virginia (us-east4)
Highest$1.600666 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions18With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-east1
Taiwan
$1.158382$1.710382
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$1.284735$1.836735
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$1.284735$1.836735
asia-south1
Mumbai
$1.041387$1.593387
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$1.234214$1.786214
europe-west1
Belgium
$1.101558$1.653558
europe-west2
London
$1.13906$1.69106
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$1.179027$1.731027
europe-west4
Netherlands
$1.051488$1.603488
europe-west6
Zurich
$1.360364$1.912364
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$1.600666$2.152666
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$1.101558$1.653558
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$1.101558$1.653558
us-central1
Iowa
$1.000416$1.552416
us-east1
South Carolina
$1.000416$1.552416
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$0.997141$1.549141
us-west1
Oregon
$1.000416$1.552416
us-west4
Las Vegas
$1.126769$1.678769

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. g2-standard-12 is priced in the 18 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 G2 vCPU, memory and GPUs 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. G2 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other G2 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
g2-standard-4416$0.704518/hr
g2-standard-8832$0.850829/hr
g2-standard-121248$0.997141/hr
g2-standard-161664$1.143452/hr
g2-standard-242496$1.994281/hr
g2-standard-3232128$1.728697/hr
g2-standard-4848192$3.988562/hr
g2-standard-9696384$7.977124/hr