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The ecs.u1-c1m8.3xlarge is a general purpose instance in the u1 family with 12 vCPU and 96 GiB of memory on Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum. It costs $454.13 a month on-demand in us-east-1 (Virginia) and is offered in 22 regions.
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1 Nov 2026
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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
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| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 110pod cap | $4.13 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 47cpu | $9.66 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 23cpu | $19.74 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 11cpu | $41.28 |
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 69% across sizes.
No grid or power data for this type in us-east-1.
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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