On-demand, Linux
$13.236489/ hr
$9,662.64/mo · lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
3-yr commitment, Linux
$5.824025/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Spot, Linux
$5.294596/ hr
Lowest in Iowa (us-central1)
Per unit
$0.06894/ vCPU-hr
$0.008895 / GiB-hr, at the lowest rate
Compute
192vCPUs
96 cores • x86-64
Memory
1,488GiB
7.75 GiB / vCPU
GiB per vCPU: 7.75
Architecture: x86-64
CPU: Intel
Physical cores: 96
Local SSD: 4,500 GiB

On AWS

The nearest AWS machines to z4m-highmem-192 by vCPU and memory, at On-demand Linux rates in Northern Virginia (us-east4 ↔ us-east-1).

MachineSizeOn-demand Linuxvs z4m-highmem-192
z4m-highmem-192This page · Google Cloud, us-east4192 vCPU · 1,488 GiB$13.236489/hr—
r8id.48xlarge192 vCPU and 1536 GiB for 192 vCPU and 1488 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both192 vCPU · 1,536 GiB$15.96672/hr21% more
i7i.48xlarge192 vCPU and 1536 GiB for 192 vCPU and 1488 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both192 vCPU · 1,536 GiB$18.1210/hr37% more
r8idb.48xlarge192 vCPU and 1536 GiB for 192 vCPU and 1488 GiB, the nearest size up; Intel on both192 vCPU · 1,536 GiB$22.50912/hr70% 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
vCPUZ4M Instance Core running in Iowa
F649-D74E-44C7
$0.03465 per hour192 vCPU$6.6528
MemoryZ4M Instance Ram running in Iowa
A4A1-7772-3536
$0.003938 per GiB-hour1,488 GiB$5.859744
Local SSDZ4M Instance Local SSD running in Iowa
A292-0BED-E525
$0.11744 per GiB-month4,500 GiB$0.723945
On-demand, Linux$13.236489

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$13.236489 / hrIowa (us-central1)
Highest$14.574648 / hrFinland (europe-north1)
Regions3With a Linux On-demand price
RegionLinux (On-demand)Windows (On-demand)
europe-north1
Finland
Highest
$14.574648$23.406648
us-central1
Iowa
Lowest
$13.236489$22.068489
us-east4
Northern Virginia
Lowest
$13.236489$22.068489

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

What the prices include

  • Regions. z4m-highmem-192 is priced in the 3 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 Z4M 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. Z4M gets no sustained-use discount.

Other Z4M machine types

Machine typevCPUMemory (GiB)Lowest On-demand, Linux
z4m-highmem-1616122$1.095165/hr
z4m-highmem-3232244$2.19033/hr
z4m-highmem-4848366$3.285494/hr
z4m-highmem-1921921,488$13.236489/hr
z4m-highmem-192-metal1921,536$13.425513/hr