The m8i-flex.4xlarge is a general purpose instance in the m8i-flex family with 16 vCPU and 64 GiB of memory on Intel Xeon Scalable (Granite Rapids). It costs $654.49 a month on-demand in ca-west-1 (Calgary) and is offered in 21 regions.
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Aug 2026
First listed in the AWS price list archive
The list price has never changed in ca-west-1 since then.
Archive dates are the month of the AWS price list version that first carried the price.
Last moved 4 h ago, 24 Oct 2026 −1.5%
Moves a little: a 9% range over 2 days, 8 moves.
Tracked since 22 Oct 2026, read every few minutes.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 110pod cap | $5.95 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 63cpu | $10.39 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 31cpu | $21.11 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 14memory | $46.75 |
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
Spot saves $16,413 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
129.3g CO₂ an hour in ca-west-1
94.4 kg a month. Grid 185 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 18× the cleanest.
| $587.21 | $156.95 | 73% | 332 | |
| $587.21 | $237.03 | 60% | 225 | |
| $587.21 | $233.38 | 60% | 143 | |
| $617.81 | $193.67 | 69% | 494 | |
| $617.81 | $61.76 | 90% | 494 | |
| $623.89 | $183.08 | 71% | 83 | |
| $654.49 | $339.01 | 48% | 220 | |
| $654.49 | $200.90 | 69% | 91 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/aws/m8i-flex.4xlarge?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