On-demand, Linux
$0.15308/ hr
$111.75/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.068888/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.019328/ hr
Lowest in Hong Kong (asia-east2)
Per unit
$0.03827/ vCPU-hr
$0.019135 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
4vCPUs
2 cores • x86-64
Memory
8GiB
2 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 2
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 2

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to n4-highcpu-4 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs n4-highcpu-4
n4-highcpu-4This page · Google Cloud, us-east44 vCPU · 8 GiB$0.15308/hr—
c5.xlargesame 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; Intel on both4 vCPU · 8 GiB$0.1700/hr11% more
c6i.xlargesame 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; Intel on both4 vCPU · 8 GiB$0.1700/hr11% more
c7i.xlargesame 4 vCPU and 8 GiB; Intel on both4 vCPU · 8 GiB$0.1785/hr17% 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
vCPUN4 Instance Core running in Americas
1C3C-9EBD-240F
$0.03119 per hour4 vCPU$0.12476
MemoryN4 Instance Ram running in Americas
36D5-78B0-A4D9
$0.00354 per GiB-hour8 GiB$0.02832
On-demand, Linux$0.15308

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 4 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $0.1840/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$0.15308 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$0.244928 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions41With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$0.168556$0.352556
asia-east1
Taiwan
$0.177251$0.361251
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$0.214144$0.398144
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$0.196585$0.380585
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$0.196585$0.380585
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$0.196585$0.380585
asia-south1
Mumbai
$0.159203$0.343203
asia-south2
Delhi
$0.159203$0.343203
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$0.188855$0.372855
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$0.205847$0.389847
asia-southeast3
Bangkok
$0.160736$0.344736
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$0.19135$0.37535
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$0.199004$0.383004
europe-central2
Warsaw
$0.185227$0.369227
europe-north1
Finland
$0.168556$0.352556
europe-north2
Stockholm
$0.160734$0.344734
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$0.180634$0.364634
europe-west1
Belgium
$0.168556$0.352556
europe-west2
London
$0.174511$0.358511
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$0.180634$0.364634
europe-west4
Netherlands
$0.160734$0.344734
europe-west6
Zurich
$0.200535$0.384535
europe-west8
Milan
$0.177573$0.361573
europe-west9
Paris
$0.177573$0.361573
me-central1
Doha
$0.185992$0.369992
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$0.244928$0.428928
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$0.168388$0.352388
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$0.168556$0.352556
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$0.168556$0.352556
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$0.166857$0.350857
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$0.243076$0.427076
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$0.218904$0.402904
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$0.15308$0.33708
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$0.15308$0.33708
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$0.15308$0.33708
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$0.15308$0.33708
us-south1
Dallas
$0.180634$0.364634
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$0.15308$0.33708
us-west2
Los Angeles
$0.184017$0.368017
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$0.184017$0.368017
us-west4
Las Vegas
$0.172414$0.356414

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. n4-highcpu-4 is priced in the 41 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 N4 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. N4 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other N4 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
n4-highcpu-224$0.07654/hr
n4-standard-228$0.0907/hr
n4-highmem-2216$0.11902/hr
n4-highcpu-448$0.15308/hr
n4-standard-4416$0.1814/hr
n4-highmem-4432$0.23804/hr
n4-highcpu-8816$0.30616/hr
n4-standard-8832$0.3628/hr
n4-highmem-8864$0.47608/hr
n4-highcpu-161632$0.61232/hr
n4-standard-161664$0.7256/hr
n4-highmem-1616128$0.95216/hr
n4-highcpu-323264$1.22464/hr
n4-standard-3232128$1.4512/hr
n4-highmem-3232256$1.90432/hr
n4-highcpu-484896$1.83696/hr
n4-standard-4848192$2.1768/hr
n4-highmem-4848384$2.85648/hr
n4-highcpu-6464128$2.44928/hr
n4-standard-6464256$2.9024/hr
n4-highmem-6464512$3.80864/hr
n4-highcpu-8080160$3.0616/hr
n4-standard-8080320$3.6280/hr
n4-highmem-8080640$4.7608/hr