Cloud TPU pricing
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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 | Location | On Demand (USD) | 1-year Commitment (USD) | 3-year Commitment (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TPU v5p | us-east5 | Ohio | $4.2000 | $2.9400 | $1.8900 |
| us-east1 | South Carolina | $4.2000 | $2.9400 | $1.8900 | |
| TPU v5e | us-central-1 | Iowa | $1.2000 | $0.8400 | $0.5400 |
| us-east5 | Ohio | $1.2000 | $0.8400 | $0.5400 | |
| us-south1 | Dallas | $1.416 | $0.9912 | $0.6372 | |
| us-west1 | Oregon | $1.2000 | $0.8400 | $0.5400 | |
| us-west4 | Nevada | $1.2000 | $0.8400 | $0.5400 | |
| europe-west1 | Belgium | $1.3213 | $0.9249 | $0.5946 | |
| europe-west4 | Netherlands | $1.5600 | $1.0920 | $0.7020 | |
| asia-southeast1 | Singapore | $1.5600 | $1.0920 | $0.7020 | |
| TPU v4 pod | us-central2 | Oklahoma | $3.2200 | $2.0286 | $1.4490 |
| TPU v3 pod | europe-west4 | Netherlands | $2.0000 | $1.2600 | $0.9000 |
| TPU v3 device | europe-west4 | Netherlands | $2.2000 | $1.3860 | $0.9900 |
| TPU v2 pod | us-central1 | Iowa | $1.5000 | $0.9450 | $0.6750 |
| europe-west4 | Netherlands | $1.6500 | $1.0395 | $0.7425 | |
| TPU v2 device | asia-east1 | Taiwan | $1.3050 | $0.8222 | $0.5873 |
| europe-west4 | Netherlands | $1.2375 | $0.7796 | $0.5569 |
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.
Estimate your cost
Estimate the cost of using Cloud TPU with the Compute Engine pricing calculator, choose “Cloud TPU” on the top bar.
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