Cloud TPU pricing

Cloud TPUs are purpose-built AI accelerators, which are fully optimized for a diverse range of AI training, tuning, and inference workloads.

Learn which Cloud TPU products works best for your unique project needs.

Regional pricing

Cloud TPU pricing varies by product, deployment model & region. Charges for Cloud TPU accrue while a TPU node is in a READY state. Customers receive a bill at the end of each billing cycle that lists usage and charges for that billing cycle. Prices displayed here are per chip-hour in USD.

Cloud TPU Version
(per chip-hour)
Region On Demand (USD) 1-year Commitment (USD) 3-year Commitment (USD) Spot*
TPU v5p us-east5 $4.2000 $2.9400 $1.8900 $2.1000
TPU v5e us-east5 $1.2000 $0.8400 $0.5400 $0.6000
us-west1 $1.2000 $0.8400 $0.5400 $0.6000
us-west4 $1.2000 $0.8400 $0.5400 $0.6000
europe-west4 $1.2600 $0.8820 $0.5670 $0.6300
TPU v4 pod us-central2 $3.2200 $2.0286 $1.4490 $0.6086
TPU v3 pod europe-west4 $2.0000 $1.2600 $0.9000 $0.3780
TPU v3 device europe-west4 $2.2000 $1.3860 $0.9900 $0.4158
TPU v2 pod us-central1 $1.5000 $0.9450 $0.6750 $0.2835
europe-west4 $1.6500 $1.0395 $0.7425 $0.3119
TPU v2 device asia-east1 $1.3050 $0.8222 $0.5873 $0.2467
europe-west4 $1.2375 $0.7796 $0.5569 $0.2339

*Spot capacity will be dynamically priced when available.

Cloud TPU usage options

Type Billing Best fit for:
3-year commitment (3Y CUD) Monthly, based on reserved quota ML users who need consistent access to 512+ cores of capacity
1-year commitment (1Y CUD) Monthly, based on reserved quota ML users who need consistent access to 32-512 cores of capacity
On Demand Hourly, based on actual usage ML users who want to run some short-term experiments or benchmarks
Spot/Preemptible Hourly, based on actual usage ML users who want to run batch / fault-tolerant workloads

Estimate your cost

Estimate the cost of using Cloud TPU with the Compute Engine pricing calculator, choose “Cloud TPU” on the top bar.

Free access via TRC

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