On-demand, Linux
$6.288672/ hr
$4,590.73/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$2.830176/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.62304/ hr
Lowest in Toronto (northamerica-northeast2)
Per unit
$0.065507/ vCPU-hr
$0.008188 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
96vCPUs
48 cores • x86-64
Memory
768GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 48

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to n2-highmem-96 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs n2-highmem-96
n2-highmem-96This page · Google Cloud, us-east496 vCPU · 768 GiB$7.082208/hr—
r5.24xlargesame 96 vCPU and 768 GiB; Intel on both96 vCPU · 768 GiB$6.0480/hr15% less
r6i.24xlargesame 96 vCPU and 768 GiB; Intel on both96 vCPU · 768 GiB$6.0480/hr15% less
r7i.24xlargesame 96 vCPU and 768 GiB; Intel on both96 vCPU · 768 GiB$6.3504/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 hour96 vCPU$3.034656
MemoryN2 Instance Ram running in Americas
5B01-D157-A097
$0.004237 per GiB-hour768 GiB$3.254016
On-demand, Linux$6.288672

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 96 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.4160/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$6.288672 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$10.061875 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions40With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$6.917856$11.333856
asia-east1
Taiwan
$7.2816$11.6976
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$8.79888$13.21488
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$8.06112$12.47712
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$8.075808$12.491808
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$8.075808$12.491808
asia-south1
Mumbai
$7.552704$11.968704
asia-south2
Delhi
$7.552704$11.968704
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$7.757472$12.173472
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$8.455644$12.871644
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$8.922624$13.338624
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$7.5840$12.0000
europe-central2
Warsaw
$7.609536$12.025536
europe-north1
Finland
$6.923328$11.339328
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$7.420633$11.836633
europe-west1
Belgium
$6.917856$11.333856
europe-west10
Berlin
$8.102068$12.518068
europe-west12
Turin
$8.112387$12.528387
europe-west2
London
$8.101824$12.517824
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$8.101824$12.517824
europe-west4
Netherlands
$6.922944$11.338944
europe-west6
Zurich
$8.238432$12.654432
europe-west8
Milan
$7.29486$11.71086
europe-west9
Paris
$7.29486$11.71086
me-central1
Doha
$7.640737$12.056737
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$10.061875$14.477875
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$6.917539$11.333539
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$6.922944$11.338944
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$6.922944$11.338944
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$9.98208$14.39808
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$8.992801$13.408801
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$6.288672$10.704672
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$6.288672$10.704672
us-east4
Northern Virginia
$7.082208$11.498208
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$6.288672$10.704672
us-south1
Dallas
$7.420633$11.836633
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$6.288672$10.704672
us-west2
Los Angeles
$7.553472$11.969472
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$7.553472$11.969472
us-west4
Las Vegas
$7.082016$11.498016

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. n2-highmem-96 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