On-demand, Linux
$3.144336/ hr
$2,295.37/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.415088/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.31152/ hr
Lowest in Toronto (northamerica-northeast2)
Per unit
$0.065507/ vCPU-hr
$0.008188 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
48vCPUs
24 cores • x86-64
Memory
384GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 24

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to n2-highmem-48 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs n2-highmem-48
n2-highmem-48This page · Google Cloud, us-east448 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.541104/hr—
r5.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Intel on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.0240/hr15% less
r6i.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Intel on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.0240/hr15% less
r7i.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Intel on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.1752/hr10% less

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 hour48 vCPU$1.517328
MemoryN2 Instance Ram running in Americas
5B01-D157-A097
$0.004237 per GiB-hour384 GiB$1.627008
On-demand, Linux$3.144336

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 48 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $2.2080/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$3.144336 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$5.030938 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions40With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$3.458928$5.666928
asia-east1
Taiwan
$3.6408$5.8488
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$4.39944$6.60744
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$4.03056$6.23856
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$4.037904$6.245904
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$4.037904$6.245904
asia-south1
Mumbai
$3.776352$5.984352
asia-south2
Delhi
$3.776352$5.984352
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$3.878736$6.086736
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$4.227822$6.435822
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$4.461312$6.669312
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$3.7920$6.0000
europe-central2
Warsaw
$3.804768$6.012768
europe-north1
Finland
$3.461664$5.669664
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$3.710316$5.918316
europe-west1
Belgium
$3.458928$5.666928
europe-west10
Berlin
$4.051034$6.259034
europe-west12
Turin
$4.056193$6.264193
europe-west2
London
$4.050912$6.258912
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$4.050912$6.258912
europe-west4
Netherlands
$3.461472$5.669472
europe-west6
Zurich
$4.119216$6.327216
europe-west8
Milan
$3.64743$5.85543
europe-west9
Paris
$3.64743$5.85543
me-central1
Doha
$3.820368$6.028368
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$5.030938$7.238938
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$3.45877$5.66677
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$3.461472$5.669472
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$3.461472$5.669472
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$4.99104$7.19904
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$4.4964$6.7044
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$3.144336$5.352336
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$3.144336$5.352336
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$3.541104$5.749104
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$3.144336$5.352336
us-south1
Dallas
$3.710316$5.918316
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$3.144336$5.352336
us-west2
Los Angeles
$3.776736$5.984736
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$3.776736$5.984736
us-west4
Las Vegas
$3.541008$5.749008

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. n2-highmem-48 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