The a2-highgpu-8g is an accelerated instance in the a2 family with 96 vCPU and 680 GiB of memory on Intel Cascade Lake, plus 8× A100 40 GB. It costs $21,452.57 a month on-demand in us-east1 (South Carolina) and is offered in 40 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 $308,921 a year
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 90% across sizes.
5,738.1g CO₂ an hour in us-east1
4,188.8 kg a month. Grid 261 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $21,452.57 | $12,871.42 | 40% | 4,502 | |
| $21,452.57 | $11,034.77 | 49% | 10,455 | |
| $21,452.57 | $12,871.42 | 40% | 5,738 | |
| $21,452.57 | $12,871.42 | 40% | 5,354 | |
| $21,884.63 | $4,862.97 | 78% | 4,311 | |
| $21,888.16 | $11,257.97 | 49% | 10,426 | |
| $21,888.16 | $10,707.99 | 51% | 4,077 | |
| $21,888.44 | $1,979.58 | 91% | 3,981 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/a2-highgpu-8g?region=us-east1"
List prices from Google Cloud in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. Google Cloud pricing page