On-demand, Linux
$2.85648/ hr
$2,085.23/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$1.28544/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.360384/ hr
Lowest in Hong Kong (asia-east2)
Per unit
$0.05951/ vCPU-hr
$0.007439 / 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 n4-highmem-48 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs n4-highmem-48
n4-highmem-48This page · Google Cloud, us-east448 vCPU · 384 GiB$2.85648/hr—
r5.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Intel on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.0240/hr5.9% more
r6i.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Intel on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.0240/hr5.9% more
r7i.12xlargesame 48 vCPU and 384 GiB; Intel on both48 vCPU · 384 GiB$3.1752/hr11% 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 hour48 vCPU$1.49712
MemoryN4 Instance Ram running in Americas
36D5-78B0-A4D9
$0.00354 per GiB-hour384 GiB$1.35936
On-demand, Linux$2.85648

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$2.85648 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$4.570368 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions41With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
africa-south1
Johannesburg
$3.145269$5.353269
asia-east1
Taiwan
$3.307518$5.515518
asia-east2
Hong Kong
$3.99593$6.20393
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$3.668292$5.876292
asia-northeast2
Osaka
$3.668292$5.876292
asia-northeast3
Seoul
$3.668292$5.876292
asia-south1
Mumbai
$2.970739$5.178739
asia-south2
Delhi
$2.970739$5.178739
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$3.524039$5.732039
asia-southeast2
Jakarta
$3.841109$6.049109
asia-southeast3
Bangkok
$2.999328$5.207328
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$3.5706$5.7786
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$3.713424$5.921424
europe-central2
Warsaw
$3.456341$5.664341
europe-north1
Finland
$3.14527$5.35327
europe-north2
Stockholm
$2.999304$5.207304
europe-southwest1
Madrid
$3.370646$5.578646
europe-west1
Belgium
$3.14527$5.35327
europe-west2
London
$3.256387$5.464387
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$3.370646$5.578646
europe-west4
Netherlands
$2.999304$5.207304
europe-west6
Zurich
$3.741989$5.949989
europe-west8
Milan
$3.313517$5.521517
europe-west9
Paris
$3.313517$5.521517
me-central1
Doha
$3.470623$5.678623
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$4.570368$6.778368
me-west1
Tel Aviv
$3.142128$5.350128
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$3.14527$5.35327
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$3.14527$5.35327
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$3.113563$5.321563
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$4.535805$6.743805
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$4.084766$6.292766
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$2.85648$5.06448
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$2.85648$5.06448
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$2.85648$5.06448
us-east5
Columbus
Lowest
$2.85648$5.06448
us-south1
Dallas
$3.370646$5.578646
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$2.85648$5.06448
us-west2
Los Angeles
$3.433775$5.641775
us-west3
Salt Lake City
$3.433775$5.641775
us-west4
Las Vegas
$3.217254$5.425254

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. n4-highmem-48 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