On-demand, Linux
$9.547955/ hr
$6,970.01/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$4.296591/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$1.014589/ hr
Lowest in Mumbai (asia-south1)
Per unit
$0.108499/ vCPU-hr
$0.013562 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
88vCPUs
44 cores • x86-64
Memory
704GiB
8 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 8
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 44
Local SSD: 4,500 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to z3-highmem-88-highlssd by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs z3-highmem-88-highlssd
z3-highmem-88-highlssdThis page · Google Cloud, us-east488 vCPU · 704 GiB$9.547955/hr—
r5d.24xlarge96 vCPU and 768 GiB for 88 vCPU and 704 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 44 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 768 GiB$6.9120/hr28% less
r6id.24xlarge96 vCPU and 768 GiB for 88 vCPU and 704 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 44 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 768 GiB$7.2576/hr24% less
r8id.24xlarge96 vCPU and 768 GiB for 88 vCPU and 704 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both; 44 physical cores vs 4896 vCPU · 768 GiB$7.98336/hr16% 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
vCPUZ3 Instance Core running in Americas
40C4-CA9F-3B87
$0.049653 per hour88 vCPU$4.369473
MemoryZ3 Instance Ram running in Americas
2DFF-4FD5-CD13
$0.006655 per GiB-hour704 GiB$4.685331
Local SSDZ3 Instance Local SSD running in Americas
6D7C-6AE1-9963
$0.08 per GiB-month4,500 GiB$0.493151
On-demand, Linux$9.547955

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

Windows adds the Windows Server licence: 88 vCPU × $0.046 per hour (SKU 92D2-8A8F-DF54) = $4.0480/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$9.547955 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$12.509686 / hrZurich (europe-west6)
Regions18With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
asia-northeast1
Tokyo
$12.259412$16.307412
asia-south1
Mumbai
$9.929873$13.977873
asia-southeast1
Singapore
$11.777487$15.825487
australia-southeast1
Sydney
$11.934944$15.982944
europe-north2
Stockholm
$10.025352$14.073352
europe-west1
Belgium
$12.507821$16.555821
europe-west10
Berlin
$12.443709$16.491709
europe-west2
London
$10.884668$14.932668
europe-west3
Frankfurt
$11.266587$15.314587
europe-west4
Netherlands
$10.025352$14.073352
europe-west6
Zurich
Highest
$12.509686$16.557686
northamerica-south1
Mexico
$10.407271$14.455271
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$9.547955$13.595955
us-east1
South Carolina
Lowest
$9.547955$13.595955
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$9.547955$13.595955
us-east5
Columbus
$10.755686$14.803686
us-south1
Dallas
$11.266587$15.314587
us-west1
Oregon
Lowest
$9.547955$13.595955

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. z3-highmem-88-highlssd is priced in the 18 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 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