On-demand, Linux
$4.9236/ hr
$3,594.23/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$2.95592/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.891616/ hr
Lowest in Montreal (northamerica-northeast1)
Per unit
$0.05595/ vCPU-hr
$0.013988 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
88vCPUs
88 cores • x86-64
Memory
352GiB
4 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 4
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 88

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to h3-standard-88 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Canada (Montréal) (northamerica-northeast1 ↔ ca-central-1). h3-standard-88 isn't sold in us-east4, so this compares the paired region where its rate is lowest.

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs h3-standard-88
h3-standard-88This page · Google Cloud, northamerica-northeast188 vCPU · 352 GiB$5.421376/hr—
m5.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 88 vCPU and 352 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 88 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 384 GiB$5.1360/hr5.3% less
m6i.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 88 vCPU and 352 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 88 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 384 GiB$5.1360/hr5.3% less
m7i.24xlarge96 vCPU and 384 GiB for 88 vCPU and 352 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 88 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 384 GiB$5.3928/hr0.5% 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
vCPUH3 Instance Core running in Americas
7D79-7020-D37E
$0.04411 per hour88 vCPU$3.88168
MemoryH3 Instance Ram running in Americas
0526-51DF-5352
$0.00296 per GiB-hour352 GiB$1.04192
On-demand, Linux$4.9236

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 88 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.0480/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$4.9236 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$5.421376 / hrMontreal (northamerica-northeast1)
Regions3With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
europe-west4
Netherlands
$5.16978$9.21778
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
Highest
$5.421376$9.469376
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$4.9236$8.9716

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. h3-standard-88 is priced in the 3 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 H3 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. H3 gets no sustained-use discount.