Compute Engine pricing

This page lists all the pricing for Compute Engine.

Compute Engine charges for usage based on the following price sheet. A bill is sent out at the end of each billing cycle, providing a sum of Google Cloud charges. Prices on this page are listed in U.S. dollars (USD).

For Compute Engine, disk size, machine type memory, and network usage are calculated in JEDEC binary gigabytes (GB), or IEC gibibytes (GiB), where 1 GiB is 2³⁰ bytes. Similarly, 1 TiB is 2⁴⁰ bytes, or 1024 JEDEC GBs.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

You can also find pricing information with the following options:

See the estimated costs of your instances and Compute Engine resources when you create them in the Google Cloud console.
Estimate your total project costs with the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.
View and download prices from the Pricing Table in the Google Cloud console.
View more information about costs and usage in Cloud Billing reports.
Use the Cloud Billing Catalog API for programmatic access to SKU information.

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General-purpose machine types

C4 machine types

C4 standard machine types

C4 high-memory machine types

C4 high-CPU machine types

C4A machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for most machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs and A3 machine types. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

C4A standard machine types

C4A high-memory machine types

C4A high-CPU machine types

N4 machine types

N4 standard machine types

The following table shows the calculated costs for standard predefined machine types in the N4 machine family. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual predefined vCPU and memory prices, but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

Standard machine types have 4 GB of memory per vCPU.

N4 high-memory machine types

The following table shows the calculated cost for the N4 high-memory predefined machine types. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual predefined vCPU and memory prices, but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

High-memory machine types have 8 GB of memory per vCPU. High-memory instances are ideal for tasks that require more memory relative to virtual CPUs.

N4 high-CPU machine types

The following table shows the calculated cost for N4 high-CPU predefined machine types. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual predefined vCPU and memory prices, but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

High-CPU machine types have one vCPU for every 1 GB of memory. High-CPU machine types are ideal for tasks that require moderate memory configurations for the needed vCPU count.

N4 custom vCPUs and memory

Custom machine types let you set a specific number of vCPUs and GB of memory for your instances to match the needs of your workload. Custom machine types save you the cost of running on a larger and more expensive machine type if your application does not require all of the resources provided by that machine type.

Read Creating a VM instance with a custom machine type to learn how to use these machine types.

For an accurate estimate of your billing with custom machine types, use the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
Spot prices, which typically offer the largest discounts—up to 91% off of the corresponding on-demand price—are listed separately on the Spot VMs pricing page.
The CUDs prices for Custom Machine Types reflect a 5% premium over predefined shapes. The premium applies only for the duration and amount of CMTs used and covered by the CUDs. More details please refer to the documentation for Resource-based committed use discounts.

C3 machine types

C3 standard machine types

C3 high-memory machine types

C3 high-CPU machine types

C3D machine types

C3D standard machine types

C3D high-memory machine types

C3D high-CPU machine types

E2 machine types

E2 standard machine types

E2 high-memory machine types

E2 high-CPU machine types

E2 custom vCPUs and memory

E2 custom and E2 shared-core custom machine types are subject to the same pricing rates. E2 shared-core custom machines have fractional vCPUs with a custom memory range.

0.25 vCPU for micro machines
0.50 vCPU for small machines
1 vCPU for medium machines

N2 machine types

N2 standard machine types

N2 high-memory machine types

N2 high-CPU machine types

N2 custom vCPUs and memory

N2 extended custom memory

N2D machine types

N2D standard machine types

N2D high-memory machine types

N2D high-CPU machine types

N2D custom vCPUs and memory

N2D extended custom memory

Tau T2D machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Tau T2D standard machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Tau T2A machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Tau T2A standard machine types

The following table shows the calculated costs for standard predefined machine types in the Tau T2A machine family. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual predefined vCPU and memory prices, but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

Standard machine types have 4 GB of memory per vCPU.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

N1 machine types

N1 standard machine types

N1 high-memory machine types

N1 high-CPU machine types

N1 custom vCPUs and memory

N1 extended custom memory

Compute-optimized machine types

H3 machine types

H3 VMs are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), DDR5 memory, and Google's custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Engine (IPU). The following table describes the pricing per vCPU and GB of memory for H3 machine types.

H3 Standard machine types

The following table shows the calculated cost for h3-standard-88 machine types, which is the H3 predefined machine type. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual compute-optimized vCPUs and memory prices but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

C2 vCPUs and memory

C2 machine types

Spot prices, which typically offer the largest discounts—up to 91% off of the corresponding on-demand price—are listed separately on the Spot VMs pricing page.

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General-purpose machine types

C4 machine types

C4 standard machine types

C4 high-memory machine types

C4 high-CPU machine types

C4A machine types

C4A standard machine types

C4A high-memory machine types

C4A high-CPU machine types

N4 machine types

N4 standard machine types

N4 high-memory machine types

N4 high-CPU machine types

N4 custom vCPUs and memory

C3 machine types

C3 standard machine types

C3 high-memory machine types

C3 high-CPU machine types

C3D machine types

C3D standard machine types

C3D high-memory machine types

C3D high-CPU machine types

E2 machine types

E2 standard machine types

E2 high-memory machine types

E2 high-CPU machine types

E2 custom vCPUs and memory

N2 machine types

N2 standard machine types

N2 high-memory machine types

N2 high-CPU machine types

N2 custom vCPUs and memory

N2 extended custom memory

N2D machine types

N2D standard machine types

N2D high-memory machine types

N2D high-CPU machine types

N2D custom vCPUs and memory

N2D extended custom memory

Tau T2D machine types

Tau T2D standard machine types

Tau T2A machine types

Tau T2A standard machine types

N1 machine types

N1 standard machine types

N1 high-memory machine types

N1 high-CPU machine types

N1 custom vCPUs and memory

N1 extended custom memory

Compute-optimized machine types

H3 machine types

H3 Standard machine types

C2 vCPUs and memory

C2 machine types

C2D vCPUs and memory

C2D standard machine types