On-demand, Linux
$4.42367/ hr
$3,229.28/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.3271/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.437088/ hr
Lowest in Las Vegas (us-west4)
Per unit
$0.078994/ vCPU-hr
$0.005946 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
56vCPUs
28 cores • x86-64
Memory
744GiB
13.29 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 13.29
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 28

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to m4-megamem-56 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs m4-megamem-56
m4-megamem-56This page · Google Cloud, us-east456 vCPU · 744 GiB$4.42367/hr—
x1.16xlarge64 vCPU and 976 GiB for 56 vCPU and 744 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 28 physical cores vs 32; local disk on x1.16xlarge only64 vCPU · 976 GiB$6.6690/hr51% more
x8i.16xlarge64 vCPU and 1024 GiB for 56 vCPU and 744 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 28 physical cores vs 3264 vCPU · 1,024 GiB$7.00256/hr58% more
x2idn.16xlarge64 vCPU and 1024 GiB for 56 vCPU and 744 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 28 physical cores vs 32; local disk on x2idn.16xlarge only64 vCPU · 1,024 GiB$6.6690/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 hour56 vCPU$1.02359
MemoryM4 Instance Ram running in Americas
041B-9176-BDB8
$0.00457 per GiB-hour744 GiB$3.40008
On-demand, Linux$4.42367

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 56 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $2.5760/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$4.42367 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$7.076382 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions23With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-south1
Mumbai
$4.556383$7.132383
asia-south2
Delhi
$4.556383$7.132383
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$5.52996$8.10596
asia-southeast3
Bangkok
$4.645969$7.221969
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$5.75077$8.32677
europe-central2
Warsaw
$6.329494$8.905494
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$5.308406$7.884406
europe-west1
Belgium
$5.043134$7.619134
europe-west12
Turin
$5.527728$8.103728
europe-west2
London
$5.352866$7.928866
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$5.042986$7.618986
europe-west4
Netherlands
$5.042986$7.618986
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$7.076382$9.652382
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$4.868267$7.444267
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$4.868267$7.444267
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$7.033638$9.609638
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$6.329494$8.905494
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$4.42367$6.99967
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$4.42367$6.99967
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$4.42367$6.99967
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$4.42367$6.99967
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$4.42367$6.99967
us-west4
Las Vegas
Lowest
$4.42367$6.99967

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. m4-megamem-56 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