The m8g.xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m8g family with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on AWS Graviton4 (Arm). It costs $146.09 a month on-demand in ca-west-1 (Calgary) and is offered in 32 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $3,049 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not. A 1-yr reservation is cheaper once these run more than 16 h a day.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU is the same at every size, so pick the size that fits.
4.3g CO₂ an hour in ca-west-1
3.2 kg a month. Grid 185 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 116× the cleanest.
| $93.67 | $9.34 | 90% | 16 | |
| $93.67 | $50.15 | 46% | 16 | |
| $131.05 | $48.76 | 63% | 8 | |
| $131.05 | $38.69 | 70% | 5 | |
| $131.05 | $36.06 | 72% | 11 | |
| $137.59 | $43.36 | 68% | 10 | |
| $139.25 | $24.02 | 83% | 0 | |
| $139.25 | $66.28 | 52% | 3 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/m8g.xlarge?region=ca-west-1"
List prices from AWS in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. AWS pricing page