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Regional pricing

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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	Location	On Demand (USD) (per hour or per month)	1-year Commitment (USD) (per hour or per month)	3-year Commitment (USD) (per hour or per month)
Trillium	us-east1	South Carolina	$2.7	$1.89	$1.22
	us-east5	Ohio	$2.7	$1.89	$1.22
	europe-west4	Amsterdam	$2.97	$2.08	$1.34
	asia-northeast1	Tokyo	$3.24	$2.27	$1.46
TPU v5p	us-east5	Columbus	$4.2	$2.94	$1.89
TPU v5p	us-east1	South Carolina	$4.2	$2.94	$1.89
TPU v5e	us-central1	Iowa	$1.2	$0.84	$0.54
	us-east5	Columbus	$1.2	$0.84	$0.54
	us-south1	Dallas	$1.416	$0.9912	$0.6372
	us-west1	Oregon	$1.2	$0.84	$0.54
	us-west4	Las Vegas	$1.2	$0.84	$0.54
	europe-west1	Belgium	$1.32132	$0.924924	$0.594594
	europe-west4	Netherlands	$1.56	$1.092	$0.702
	asia-southeast1	Singapore	$1.56	$1.092	$0.702
TPU v4 pod	us-central2	Oklahoma	$3.22	$2.0286	$1.449
TPU v3 pod	europe-west4	Netherlands	$2	$1.26	$0.9
TPU v3 device	europe-west4	Netherlands	$2.2	$1.386	$0.99
TPU v2 pod	us-central1	Iowa	$1.5	$0.945	$0.675
TPU v2 pod	europe-west4	Netherlands	$1.5	$0.945	$0.675
TPU v2 device	asia-east1	Taiwan	$1.305	$0.82215	$0.58725
TPU v2 device	europe-west4	Netherlands	$1.2375	$0.779625	$0.556875

Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

Cloud TPU usage options

Type	Billing	Best fit for:
3-year commitment (3Y CUD)	Monthly, based on reserved quota	ML users who need a more consistent access to 512+ cores of capacity compared to On Demand or Spot options
1-year commitment (1Y CUD)	Monthly, based on reserved quota	ML users who need a more consistent access to 32-512 cores of capacity compared to On Demand or Spot options
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

Chips vs Cores vs VMs

Pricing shown above is per chip-hour. A single TPU Virtual Machine (VM) can have multiple chips and at least 2 cores. Billing in the Google Cloud console is displayed in VM-hours (for example, the on-demand price for a single Cloud TPU v4 host, which includes four TPU v4 chips and one VM, is displayed as $12.88 per hour). Usage data in the Google Cloud console is also measured in VM-hours.

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