On-demand, Linux
$0.06496/ hr
$47.42/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$0.029234/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$0.024604/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Per unit
$0.03248/ vCPU-hr
$0.01624 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
2vCPUs
2 cores • Arm64
Memory
4GiB
2 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 2
Architecture: Arm64
CPU: Arm
Physical cores: 2

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to n4a-highcpu-2 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs n4a-highcpu-2
n4a-highcpu-2This page · Google Cloud, us-east42 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.06496/hr—
c6g.largesame 2 vCPU and 4 GiB; Arm on both2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.0680/hr4.7% more
c7g.largesame 2 vCPU and 4 GiB; Arm on both2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.0725/hr12% more
c8g.largesame 2 vCPU and 4 GiB; Arm on both2 vCPU · 4 GiB$0.07976/hr23% 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
vCPUN4A Instance Core running in Iowa
36AC-06EF-9B3D
$0.02646 per hour2 vCPU$0.05292
MemoryN4A Instance Ram running in Iowa
2F59-FB4B-2285
$0.00301 per GiB-hour4 GiB$0.01204
On-demand, Linux$0.06496

Rates by region

On-demand: Pay-as-you-go rate, composed from Google's per-vCPU and per-GiB SKUs

Lowest$0.06496 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$0.08012 / hrSingapore (asia-southeast1)
Regions9With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)
asia-southeast1
Singapore
Highest
$0.08012
europe-west1
Belgium
$0.07152
europe-west2
London
$0.07404
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$0.07664
europe-west4
Netherlands
$0.0682
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$0.06496
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$0.06496
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$0.06496
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$0.06496

Monthly is 730 hours and annual is 8,760. Google doesn't offer Windows on Arm, so n4a-highcpu-2 has Linux prices only.

What the prices include

  • Regions. n4a-highcpu-2 is priced in the 9 regions where Compute Engine runs it in at least one zone. It may run in only some of a region's zones.
  • 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 N4A 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. N4A gets no sustained-use discount.

Other N4A machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
n4a-highcpu-112$0.03248/hr
n4a-standard-114$0.0385/hr
n4a-highmem-118$0.05054/hr
n4a-highcpu-224$0.06496/hr
n4a-standard-228$0.0770/hr
n4a-highmem-2216$0.10108/hr
n4a-highcpu-448$0.12992/hr
n4a-standard-4416$0.1540/hr
n4a-highmem-4432$0.20216/hr
n4a-highcpu-8816$0.25984/hr
n4a-standard-8832$0.3080/hr
n4a-highmem-8864$0.40432/hr
n4a-highcpu-161632$0.51968/hr
n4a-standard-161664$0.6160/hr
n4a-highmem-1616128$0.80864/hr
n4a-highcpu-323264$1.03936/hr
n4a-standard-3232128$1.2320/hr
n4a-highmem-3232256$1.61728/hr
n4a-highcpu-484896$1.55904/hr
n4a-standard-4848192$1.8480/hr
n4a-highmem-4848384$2.42592/hr
n4a-highcpu-6464128$2.07872/hr
n4a-standard-6464256$2.4640/hr
n4a-highmem-6464512$3.23456/hr