The ecs.e-c2m1.large is a burstable instance in the e family with 2 vCPU and 1 GiB of memory on Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum. It costs $5.69 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 12 regions.
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1 Nov 2026
Tracking began
The list price has never changed in us-east-1 since then.
No spot price recorded in us-east-1.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 5memory | $1.14 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 1memory | $5.69 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 0 | — |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 0 | — |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU varies by 1504% across sizes.
No grid or power data for this type in us-east-1.
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curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/alibaba/ecs.e-c2m1.large?region=us-east-1"
List prices from Alibaba Cloud in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. Alibaba pricing page