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%.

How Spot VM pricing works

Spot prices are variable and can change up to once every day, but provide discounts of up to 91% off of the corresponding default price for many machine types, GPUs, TPUs, and Local SSDs.

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 day, you may be notified more frequently. To compare Spot prices to other rates, see 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 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.

Current Spot VMs Pricing

VM	Standard vs. custom shape	vCPU Spot price	Memory Spot price
A2	Standard	$0.01264 / 1 hour	$0.001695 / 1 gibibyte hour
A3-HIGH	Standard	$0.00586 / 1 hour	$0.000511 / 1 gibibyte hour
A3-MEGA	Standard	-	$0.000539 / 1 gibibyte hour
A3-ULTRA	Standard	$0.009 / 1 hour	$0.00054 / 1 gibibyte hour
C2	Standard	$0.01108 / 1 hour	$0.001478 / 1 gibibyte hour
C2D	Standard	$0.00687 / 1 hour	$0.000922 / 1 gibibyte hour
C3	Standard	$0.00513 / 1 hour	$0.000687 / 1 gibibyte hour
C3D	Standard	$0.00499 / 1 hour	$0.000667 / 1 gibibyte hour
C4	Standard	$0.01361 / 1 hour	$0.001546 / 1 gibibyte hour
C4A	Standard	$0.00965 / 1 hour	$0.001094 / 1 gibibyte hour
C4D	Standard	$0.01274 / 1 hour	$0.00136 / 1 gigabyte hour
E2	Standard	$0.00872 / 1 hour	$0.001169 / 1 gibibyte hour
E2	Custom	$0.00916 / 1 hour	$0.001228 / 1 gibibyte hour
G2	Standard	$0.01 / 1 hour	$0.001171 / 1 gibibyte hour
G2	Custom	$0.0105 / 1 hour	$0.00123 / 1 gibibyte hour
H4D	Standard	$0.01443 / 1 hour	$0.000515 / 1 gibibyte hour
H3	Standard	$0.01764 / 1 hour	$0.001184 / 1 gibibyte hour
M1/M2	Standard	$0.00763 / 1 hour	$0.001122 / 1 gibibyte hour
M3	Standard	$0.01385 / 1 hour	$0.002032 / 1 gibibyte hour
N1	Standard	$0.00811 / 1 hour	$0.001039 / 1 gibibyte hour
N1	Custom	$0.00852 / 1 hour	$0.001091 / 1 gibibyte hour
N2	Standard	$0.00988 / 1 hour	$0.001321 / 1 gibibyte hour
N2	Custom	$0.01037 / 1 hour	$0.001387 / 1 gibibyte hour
N4	Standard	$0.01052 / 1 hour	$0.001196 / 1 gibibyte hour
N4	Custom	$0.01105 / 1 hour	$0.001256 / 1 gibibyte hour
N4D	Standard	$0.011644 / 1 hour	$0.001324 / 1 gibibyte hour
N4D	Custom	$0.011644 / 1 hour	$0.001324 / 1 gibibyte hour
N2D	Standard	$0.00571 / 1 hour	$0.000764 / 1 gibibyte hour
N2D	Custom	$0.006 / 1 hour	$0.000803 / 1 gibibyte hour
T2A	Standard	$0.00689 / 1 hour	$0.000939 / 1 gibibyte hour
T2D	Standard	$0.00393 / 1 hour	$0.000528 / 1 gibibyte hour
Z3	Standard	$0.0104 / 1 hour	$0.001395 / 1 gibibyte hour

GPU Pricing

GPU	Current Spot GPU pricing
H200	$3.7247 / 1 hour
H100 (A3-HIGH)	$2.253 / 1 hour
H100 (A3-MEGA)	$2.3791 / 1 hour
A100 80GB	$1.5712 / 1 hour
A100 40GB	$1.1472 / 1 hour
V100	$0.992 / 1 hour
T4	$0.14 / 1 hour
L4	$0.2231 / 1 hour
P4	$0.24 / 1 hour
P100	$0.5548 / 1 hour

A4 Machine Type

The following table shows the total calculated cost that you can expect for predefined A4 High machine types. This total cost includes the cost for the GPUs, vCPU, memory, and Local SSD storage.

Machine Type	GPUs	vCPUs	Memory	Local SSD	Current Spot pricing
a4-highgpu-8g	8	224	3,968 GB	12,000 GiB	$25.776 / 1 hour

TPU Pricing

TPU Version	Current Spot TPU Pricing
Trillium	$0.748824 / 1 hour
TPU v5p	$1.2138 / 1 hour
TPU v5e	$0.244926 / 1 hour

Cloud TPU Version (per chip-hour)	Region	Location	Current Spot TPU Pricing
TPU v4 pod	us-central2	Oklahoma	$0.9215 / 1 hour
TPU v3 pod	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$0.51 / 1 hour
TPU v3 pod	europe-west4	Netherlands	$0.66 / 1 hour
TPU v3 device	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$0.51 / 1 hour
TPU v3 device	europe-west4	Netherlands	$0.561 / 1 hour
TPU v2 pod	us-central1, us-east1, us-west1	Iowa, South Carolina, Oregon	$0.3825 / 1 hour
TPU v2 pod	europe-west4	Netherlands	$0.3825 / 1 hour
TPU v2 device	asia-east1	Taiwan	$0.3915 / 1 hour
TPU v2 device	europe-west4	Netherlands	$0.3155625 / 1 hour

Local SSD pricing

VM	Current Spot pricing
All	$0.000031781 / 1 gibibyte hour
C4	$0.000086027 / 1 gibibyte hour
C4A	$0.000063699 / 1 gibibyte hour
C4D	$0.000087671 / 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
Subscribe to receive email updates on Spot VMs prices

Request a custom quote

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