The ecs.g5.16xlarge is a general purpose instance in the g5 family with 64 vCPU and 256 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon (Skylake) Platinum 8163 / Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake) Platinum 8269CY. It costs $2,242.56 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 20 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 | 110pod cap | $20.39 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 110pod cap | $20.39 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 110pod cap | $20.39 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 61memory | $36.76 |
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.
No grid or power data for this type in us-east-1.
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| $2,400.97 | — | — | ||
| $2,476.16 | — | — | ||
| $2,592.96 | — | — | ||
| $2,616.32 | — | — | ||
| $2,686.40 | — | — | ||
| $2,756.48 | — | — | ||
| $2,803.20 | — | — |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/alibaba/ecs.g5.16xlarge?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