On-demand, Linux
$50.291328/ hr
$36,712.67/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$19.141568/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
Not offered
Per unit
$0.120893/ vCPU-hr
$0.008541 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
416vCPUs
208 cores • x86-64
Memory
5,888GiB
14.15 GiB / vCPU

Google's catalog has no Spot price for m2-megamem-416.

GiB per vCPU: 14.15
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 208

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to m2-megamem-416 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs m2-megamem-416
m2-megamem-416This page · Google Cloud, us-east4416 vCPU · 5,888 GiB$57.017088/hr—
u-6tb1.112xlarge448 vCPU and 6144 GiB for 416 vCPU and 5888 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 208 physical cores vs 224448 vCPU · 6,144 GiB$54.6000/hr4.2% less
u7i-6tb.112xlarge448 vCPU and 6144 GiB for 416 vCPU and 5888 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 208 physical cores vs 224448 vCPU · 6,144 GiB$62.7900/hr10% more
u7i-8tb.112xlarge448 vCPU and 8192 GiB for 416 vCPU and 5888 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 208 physical cores vs 224448 vCPU · 8,192 GiB$83.7200/hr47% 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 hour416 vCPU$14.4768
MemoryMemory-optimized Instance Ram running in Americas
9DFC-84DE-A1D6
$0.0051 per GiB-hour5,888 GiB$30.0288
vCPU premiumMemory Optimized Upgrade Premium for Memory-optimized Instance Core running in Americas
19A3-E481-8933
$0.004524 per hour416 vCPU$1.881984
Memory premiumMemory Optimized Upgrade Premium for Memory-optimized Instance Ram running in Americas
646C-54DD-382D
$0.000663 per GiB-hour5,888 GiB$3.903744
On-demand, Linux$50.291328

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 416 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $19.1360/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$50.291328 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$80.466125 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions20With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$61.276736$80.412736
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$61.503984$80.639984
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$61.503984$80.639984
asia-south1
Mumbai
$57.667997$76.803997
asia-south2
Delhi
$57.66119$76.79719
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$68.1373$87.2733
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$59.343767$78.479767
europe-west1
Belgium
$55.441309$74.577309
europe-west2
London
$61.808307$80.944307
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$61.808307$80.944307
europe-west4
Netherlands
$52.866716$72.002716
europe-west8
Milan
$58.33794$77.47394
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$80.466125$99.602125
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$52.864101$72.000101
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$55.320461$74.456461
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$76.004704$95.140704
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$71.916599$91.052599
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$50.291328$69.427328
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$57.017088$76.153088
us-west4
Las Vegas
$56.760764$75.896764

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. m2-megamem-416 is priced in the 20 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.
  • Commitments. The 1-yr and 3-yr rates are resource-based committed use discounts: you commit to an amount of M2 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. M2 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 M2 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
m2-ultramemx-9696600$7.232904/hr
m2-ultramem2x-96961,250$10.978854/hr
m2-ultramem-2082085,888$42.111936/hr
m2-megamem-4164165,888$50.291328/hr
m2-hypermem-4164168,832$67.2576/hr
m2-ultramem-41641611,776$84.223872/hr