On-demand, Linux
$17.694682/ hr
$12,917.12/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$5.3084/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$1.748352/ hr
Lowest in Las Vegas (us-west4)
Per unit
$0.078994/ vCPU-hr
$0.005946 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
224vCPUs
112 cores • x86-64
Memory
2,976GiB
13.29 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 13.29
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 112

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to m4-megamem-224 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs m4-megamem-224
m4-megamem-224This page · Google Cloud, us-east4224 vCPU · 2,976 GiB$17.694682/hr—
u-3tb1.56xlarge224 vCPU and 3072 GiB for 224 vCPU and 2976 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both224 vCPU · 3,072 GiB$27.3000/hr54% more
x8i.64xlarge256 vCPU and 4096 GiB for 224 vCPU and 2976 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 112 physical cores vs 128256 vCPU · 4,096 GiB$28.01024/hr58% more
r8i.96xlarge384 vCPU and 3072 GiB for 224 vCPU and 2976 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 112 physical cores vs 192384 vCPU · 3,072 GiB$26.67264/hr51% 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 hour224 vCPU$4.094362
MemoryM4 Instance Ram running in Americas
041B-9176-BDB8
$0.00457 per GiB-hour2,976 GiB$13.60032
On-demand, Linux$17.694682

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 224 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $10.3040/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$17.694682 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$28.30553 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions23With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-south1
Mumbai
$18.225533$28.529533
asia-south2
Delhi
$18.225533$28.529533
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$22.11984$32.42384
asia-southeast3
Bangkok
$18.583875$28.887875
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$23.003082$33.307082
europe-central2
Warsaw
$25.317974$35.621974
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$21.233622$31.537622
europe-west1
Belgium
$20.172538$30.476538
europe-west12
Turin
$22.110912$32.414912
europe-west2
London
$21.411466$31.715466
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$20.171942$30.475942
europe-west4
Netherlands
$20.171942$30.475942
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$28.30553$38.60953
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$19.473069$29.777069
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$19.473069$29.777069
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$28.134554$38.438554
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$25.317974$35.621974
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$17.694682$27.998682
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$17.694682$27.998682
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$17.694682$27.998682
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$17.694682$27.998682
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$17.694682$27.998682
us-west4
Las Vegas
Lowest
$17.694682$27.998682

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. m4-megamem-224 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