On-demand, Linux
$10.65216/ hr
$7,776.08/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$3.196608/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$1.008269/ hr
Lowest in Montreal (northamerica-northeast1)
Per unit
$0.11096/ vCPU-hr
$0.00743 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
96vCPUs
48 cores • x86-64
Memory
1,433.6GiB
14.93 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 14.93
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 48

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to m1-megamem-96 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs m1-megamem-96
m1-megamem-96This page · Google Cloud, us-east496 vCPU · 1,433.6 GiB$12.07808/hr—
x8i.24xlarge96 vCPU and 1536 GiB for 96 vCPU and 1433.6 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both96 vCPU · 1,536 GiB$10.50384/hr13% less
x2idn.24xlarge96 vCPU and 1536 GiB for 96 vCPU and 1433.6 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on x2idn.24xlarge only96 vCPU · 1,536 GiB$10.0035/hr17% less
x1.32xlarge128 vCPU and 1952 GiB for 96 vCPU and 1433.6 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 48 physical cores vs 64; local disk on x1.32xlarge only128 vCPU · 1,952 GiB$13.3380/hr10% 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
vCPUMemory-optimized Instance Core running in Americas
AE53-03EE-A981
$0.0348 per hour96 vCPU$3.3408
MemoryMemory-optimized Instance Ram running in Americas
9DFC-84DE-A1D6
$0.0051 per GiB-hour1,433.6 GiB$7.31136
On-demand, Linux$10.65216

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 96 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.4160/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$10.65216 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$16.09792 / hrSao Paulo (southamerica-east1)
Regions17With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-east1
Taiwan
$12.362224$16.778224
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$12.97792$17.39392
asia-south1
Mumbai
$12.21484$16.63084
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$13.675782$18.091782
europe-west1
Belgium
$11.743238$16.159238
europe-west2
London
$13.091788$17.507788
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$13.091788$17.507788
europe-west4
Netherlands
$11.197862$15.613862
europe-west6
Zurich
$13.953088$18.369088
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$11.197299$15.613299
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
Highest
$16.09792$20.51392
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$10.65216$15.06816
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$10.65216$15.06816
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$12.07808$16.49408
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$10.65216$15.06816
us-west2
Los Angeles
$12.216851$16.632851
us-west4
Las Vegas
$12.02268$16.43868

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. m1-megamem-96 is priced in the 17 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 M1 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. M1 earns a sustained-use discount of up to 30% off the On-demand rate when a VM runs the whole month. It starts once the VM runs more than a quarter of the month, arrives as a monthly credit, doesn't apply to usage a commitment covers, and only self-serve billing accounts get it. The prices here don't include it.

Other M1 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
m1-ultramem-4040961$6.2931/hr
m1-ultramem-80801,922$12.5862/hr
m1-megamem-96961,433.6$10.65216/hr
m1-ultramem-1601603,844$25.1724/hr