On-demand, Linux
$0.286784/ hr
$209.35/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.129056/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.0284/ hr
Lowest in Toronto (northamerica-northeast2)
Per unit
$0.035848/ vCPU-hr
$0.035848 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
8vCPUs
4 cores • x86-64
Memory
8GiB
1 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 1
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 4

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to n2-highcpu-8 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs n2-highcpu-8
n2-highcpu-8This page · Google Cloud, us-east48 vCPU · 8 GiB$0.323008/hr—
c4.2xlarge8 vCPU and 15 GiB for 8 vCPU and 8 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both8 vCPU · 15 GiB$0.3980/hr23% more
c5.2xlarge8 vCPU and 16 GiB for 8 vCPU and 8 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both8 vCPU · 16 GiB$0.3400/hr5.3% more
c6i.2xlarge8 vCPU and 16 GiB for 8 vCPU and 8 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both8 vCPU · 16 GiB$0.3400/hr5.3% 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
vCPUN2 Instance Core running in Americas
BB77-5FDA-69D9
$0.031611 per hour8 vCPU$0.252888
MemoryN2 Instance Ram running in Americas
5B01-D157-A097
$0.004237 per GiB-hour8 GiB$0.033896
On-demand, Linux$0.286784

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 8 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.3680/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$0.286784 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$0.458854 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions40With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$0.315472$0.683472
asia-east1
Taiwan
$0.332064$0.700064
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$0.401272$0.769272
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$0.368296$0.736296
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$0.368288$0.736288
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$0.368288$0.736288
asia-south1
Mumbai
$0.344464$0.712464
asia-south2
Delhi
$0.344464$0.712464
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$0.3538$0.7218
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$0.385642$0.753642
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$0.406936$0.774936
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$0.345896$0.713896
europe-central2
Warsaw
$0.347016$0.715016
europe-north1
Finland
$0.31576$0.68376
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$0.338405$0.706405
europe-west1
Belgium
$0.315472$0.683472
europe-west10
Berlin
$0.369516$0.737516
europe-west12
Turin
$0.369951$0.737951
europe-west2
London
$0.369504$0.737504
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$0.369504$0.737504
europe-west4
Netherlands
$0.315728$0.683728
europe-west6
Zurich
$0.37568$0.74368
europe-west8
Milan
$0.332669$0.700669
europe-west9
Paris
$0.332669$0.700669
me-central1
Doha
$0.348443$0.716443
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$0.458854$0.826854
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$0.315462$0.683462
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$0.315728$0.683728
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$0.315728$0.683728
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$0.45524$0.82324
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$0.410101$0.778101
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$0.286784$0.654784
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$0.286784$0.654784
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$0.323008$0.691008
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$0.286784$0.654784
us-south1
Dallas
$0.338405$0.706405
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$0.286784$0.654784
us-west2
Los Angeles
$0.344472$0.712472
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$0.344472$0.712472
us-west4
Las Vegas
$0.322992$0.690992

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. n2-highcpu-8 is priced in the 40 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 N2 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. N2 earns a sustained-use discount of up to 20% 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 N2 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
n2-highcpu-222$0.071696/hr
n2-standard-228$0.097118/hr
n2-highmem-2216$0.131014/hr
n2-highcpu-444$0.143392/hr
n2-standard-4416$0.194236/hr
n2-highmem-4432$0.262028/hr
n2-highcpu-888$0.286784/hr
n2-standard-8832$0.388472/hr
n2-highmem-8864$0.524056/hr
n2-highcpu-161616$0.573568/hr
n2-standard-161664$0.776944/hr
n2-highmem-1616128$1.048112/hr
n2-highcpu-323232$1.147136/hr
n2-standard-3232128$1.553888/hr
n2-highmem-3232256$2.096224/hr
n2-highcpu-484848$1.720704/hr
n2-standard-4848192$2.330832/hr
n2-highmem-4848384$3.144336/hr
n2-highcpu-646464$2.294272/hr
n2-standard-6464256$3.107776/hr
n2-highmem-6464512$4.192448/hr
n2-highcpu-808080$2.86784/hr
n2-standard-8080320$3.88472/hr
n2-highmem-8080640$5.24056/hr
n2-highcpu-969696$3.441408/hr
n2-standard-9696384$4.661664/hr
n2-highmem-9696768$6.288672/hr
n2-standard-128128512$6.215552/hr
n2-highmem-128128864$7.706976/hr