On-demand, Linux
$1.425814/ hr
$1,040.84/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.427744/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.140896/ hr
Lowest in Las Vegas (us-west4)
Per unit
$0.089113/ vCPU-hr
$0.005749 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
16vCPUs
8 cores • x86-64
Memory
248GiB
15.5 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 15.5
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 8

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to m4-hypermem-16 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs m4-hypermem-16
m4-hypermem-16This page · Google Cloud, us-east416 vCPU · 248 GiB$1.425814/hr—
x8i.4xlarge16 vCPU and 256 GiB for 16 vCPU and 248 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both16 vCPU · 256 GiB$1.75064/hr23% more
x1e.4xlarge16 vCPU and 488 GiB for 16 vCPU and 248 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; local disk on x1e.4xlarge only16 vCPU · 488 GiB$3.3360/hr134% more
r5.8xlarge32 vCPU and 256 GiB for 16 vCPU and 248 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 8 physical cores vs 1632 vCPU · 256 GiB$2.0160/hr41% 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
vCPUM4 Instance Core running in Americas
68A8-30E0-2F12
$0.018278 per hour16 vCPU$0.292454
MemoryM4 Instance Ram running in Americas
041B-9176-BDB8
$0.00457 per GiB-hour248 GiB$1.13336
On-demand, Linux$1.425814

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 16 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.7360/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$1.425814 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$2.280806 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions23With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-south1
Mumbai
$1.46859$2.20459
asia-south2
Delhi
$1.46859$2.20459
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$1.782392$2.518392
asia-southeast3
Bangkok
$1.497477$2.233477
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$1.853558$2.589558
europe-central2
Warsaw
$2.04013$2.77613
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$1.710978$2.446978
europe-west1
Belgium
$1.625478$2.361478
europe-west12
Turin
$1.781648$2.517648
europe-west2
London
$1.72531$2.46131
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$1.625429$2.361429
europe-west4
Netherlands
$1.625429$2.361429
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$2.280806$3.016806
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$1.569139$2.305139
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$1.569139$2.305139
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$2.267046$3.003046
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$2.04013$2.77613
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$1.425814$2.161814
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$1.425814$2.161814
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$1.425814$2.161814
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$1.425814$2.161814
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$1.425814$2.161814
us-west4
Las Vegas
Lowest
$1.425814$2.161814

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. m4-hypermem-16 is priced in the 23 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 M4 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. M4 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other M4 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
m4-hypermem-1616248$1.425814/hr
m4-megamem-2828372$2.211835/hr
m4-hypermem-3232496$2.851629/hr
m4-megamem-5656744$4.42367/hr
m4-ultramem-56561,488$7.82375/hr
m4-hypermem-6464992$5.703258/hr
m4-megamem-1121121,488$8.847341/hr
m4-ultramem-1121122,976$15.647501/hr
m4-megamem-2242242,976$17.694682/hr
m4-ultramem-2242245,952$41.464126/hr