On-demand, Linux
$20.249087/ hr
$14,781.83/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$9.112113/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
Not offered
Per unit
$0.105464/ vCPU-hr
$0.013183 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
192vCPUs
96 cores • x86-64
Memory
1,536GiB
8 GiB / vCPU

Bare-metal machine types can't run as Spot VMs, so z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal has no Spot price.

GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 96
Local SSD: 4,500 GiB
Bare metal: Yes

On AWS

No AWS bare-metal machine has at least 192 vCPU and 1,536 GiB without being more than twice the size. Browse AWS machines.

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
vCPUZ3 Instance Core running in Americas
40C4-CA9F-3B87
$0.049653 per hour192 vCPU$9.533395
MemoryZ3 Instance Ram running in Americas
2DFF-4FD5-CD13
$0.006655 per GiB-hour1,536 GiB$10.222541
Local SSDZ3 Instance Local SSD running in Americas
6D7C-6AE1-9963
$0.08 per GiB-month4,500 GiB$0.493151
On-demand, Linux$20.249087

Google prices Local SSD per GiB-month; the hourly figure divides it by 730 hours.

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 192 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $8.8320/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$20.249087 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$32.398539 / hrDammam (me-central2)
Regions24With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-east1
Taiwan
$23.447452$32.279452
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$26.001805$34.833805
asia-south1
Mumbai
$21.059049$29.891049
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$24.979474$33.811474
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$25.311359$34.143359
australia-southeast2
Melbourne
$26.323813$35.155813
europe-north2
Stockholm
$21.26154$30.09354
europe-west1
Belgium
$26.526303$35.358303
europe-west2
London
$23.083958$31.915958
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$23.893923$32.725923
europe-west4
Netherlands
$21.26154$30.09354
europe-west8
Milan
$23.488941$32.320941
me-central1
Doha
$24.605108$33.437108
me-central2
Dammam
Highest
$32.398539$41.230539
northamerica-northeast1
Montreal
$22.295727$31.127727
northamerica-northeast2
Toronto
$22.295727$31.127727
southamerica-east1
Sao Paulo
$32.15456$40.98656
southamerica-west1
Santiago
$28.956193$37.788193
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$20.249087$29.081087
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$20.249087$29.081087
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$20.249087$29.081087
us-east5
Columbus
$22.808371$31.640371
us-south1
Dallas
$23.893923$32.725923
us-west2
Los Angeles
$24.340391$33.172391

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal is priced in the 24 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.
  • Commitments. The 1-yr and 3-yr rates are resource-based committed use discounts: you commit to an amount of Z3 vCPU, memory and Local SSD 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. Z3 gets no sustained-use discount.

Other Z3 machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
z3-highmem-8-highlssd864$0.86426/hr
z3-highmem-14-standardlssd14112$1.481633/hr
z3-highmem-16-highlssd16128$1.72852/hr
z3-highmem-22-highlssd22176$2.386989/hr
z3-highmem-22-standardlssd22176$2.345893/hr
z3-highmem-32-highlssd32256$3.45704/hr
z3-highmem-44-highlssd44352$4.773977/hr
z3-highmem-44-standardlssd44352$4.65069/hr
z3-highmem-8888704$9.547955/hr
z3-highmem-88-highlssd88704$9.547955/hr
z3-highmem-88-standardlssd88704$9.301379/hr
z3-highmem-1761761,408$18.602759/hr
z3-highmem-176-standardlssd1761,408$18.602759/hr
z3-highmem-192-highlssd-metal1921,536$20.249087/hr