The ecs.gn5-c8g1.8xlarge is an accelerated instance in the gn5 family with 32 vCPU and 240 GiB of memory, plus 4× P100. It costs $5,453.10 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 10 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 | $49.57 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 110pod cap | $49.57 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 63cpu | $86.56 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 31cpu | $175.91 |
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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| $6,405.02 | — | — | ||
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curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/alibaba/ecs.gn5-c8g1.8xlarge?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