Spot VMs pricing

Spot VMs are highly affordable compute instances suitable for batch jobs and fault-tolerant workloads that can withstand possible instance preemptions. Spot VMs offer the same machine types, options, and performance as regular instances while reducing your Compute Engine costs by up to 91%. View Spot VMs documentation to learn more

How Spot VM pricing works

Spot prices are variable and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types, GPUs, and Local SSD.

Prices adjust based on market trends and supply and demand for Spot VMs capacity. You pay the Spot price that is in effect when your instances are running. Pricing information is shared in advance as a courtesy and is subject to change. While we guarantee the price of any particular resource won't change more than once every 30 days, you may be notified more frequently. To compare Spot prices to on-demand and commitment rates, visit the Compute Engine pricing page.

Prices listed are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, and do not reflect any enterprise negotiated pricing. To view your account’s specific Spot pricing history, you can export your Cloud Billing data to BigQuery.

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Pricing components

Spot VMs are charged based on usage, in the same way as regular instances. 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). Disk size and machine type memory are listed in gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2^30 bytes. Custom machine shapes are charged at a different rate than standard shapes.

Current Spot VMs Pricing

VM	Standard vs. custom shape	vCPU Spot price (per hour or per month)	Memory Spot price (per GiB hour or per GiB month)
A2	Standard	$0.01264	$0.001695
A3-HIGH	Standard	$0.0102	$0.000888
A3-MEGA	Standard	$0.01077	$0.000937
C2	Standard	$0.005	$0.000667
C2D	Standard	$0.00736	$0.000987
C3	Standard	$0.00575	$0.00077
C3D	Standard	$0.01182	$0.001584
C4	Standard	$0.01355	$0.00154
E2	Standard	$0.00872	$0.001169
E2	Custom	$0.00916	$0.00306971
G2	Standard	$0.00842	$0.000984
G2	Custom	$0.00884	$0.001034
H3	Standard	$0.01667	$0.0012432
M1/M2	Standard	$0.00695	$0.001023
M3	Standard	$0.01256	$0.001843
N1	Standard	$0.00836	$0.001072
N1	Custom	$0.00878	$0.001125
N2	Standard	$0.00849	$0.001136
N2	Custom	$0.01025	$0.001372
N4	Standard	$0.01108	$0.001259
N4	Custom	$0.01163	$0.001322
N2D	Standard	$0.00573	$0.000766
N2D	Custom	$0.00523	$0.000699
T2A	Standard	$0.00596	$0.000813
T2D	Standard	$0.0045	$0.000603
Z3	Standard	$0.01435	$0.001924

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.

GPU Pricing

VM	Current Spot GPU pricing (per hour or per month)
H100 (A3-HIGH)	$3.9186
H100 (A3-MEGA)	$5.379
A100 80GB	$1.977666
A100 40GB	$1.1736
V100	$0.8936
T4	$0.1571
L4	$0.2481
P4	$0.216
P100	$0.491
K80	-

TPU Pricing

Cloud TPU Version (per chip-hour)	Region	Location	Spot (per hour or per month)
Trillium	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$1.89
	europe-west4	Netherlands	$2.08
	asia-northeast1	Tokyo	$2.27
	us-east5	Columbus	$1.89
TPU v5p	us-east5	Columbus	$2.415
TPU v5p	us-east1	South Carolina	$2.1
TPU v5e	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$0.63
	us-east5	Columbus	$0.6
	us-south1	Dallas	$0.708
	us-west4	Las Vegas	$0.51
	europe-west1	Belgium	$0.66066
	europe-west4	Netherlands	$0.663
	asia-southeast1	Singapore	$0.78
TPU v4 pod	us-central2	Oklahoma	$3.686
TPU v3 pod	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$2.04
TPU v3 pod	europe-west4	Netherlands	$2.64
TPU v3 device	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$2.04
TPU v3 device	europe-west4	Netherlands	$2.244
TPU v2 pod	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$1.53
TPU v2 pod	europe-west4	Netherlands	$1.53
TPU v2 device	asia-east1	Taiwan	$1.566
TPU v2 device	europe-west4	Netherlands	$1.26225

Local SSD pricing

Current Spot Local SSD pricing
$0.00007671 / 1 gibibyte hour

Estimate your cost

Estimate the cost of using Spot VMs with the Compute Engine pricing calculator. Choose "Spot (Preemptible VM)" as the provisioning model.

Take the next step

Compare Spot list prices to on-demand, committed use discounts
See Spot documentation to learn more
Get started with Spot VMs in the console
Estimate costs with pricing calculator
Use the Cloud Billing Catalog API for programmatic access to SKU information.
View your Spot pricing history by exporting your Cloud Billing data to BigQuery
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