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The a3-highgpu-1g is an accelerated instance in the a3 family with 26 vCPU and 234 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids, plus 1× H100. It costs $8,080.71 a month on-demand in us-east4 (N. Virginia) and is offered in 40 regions.
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1 Mar 2026
Tracking began
The list price has never changed in us-east4 since then.
Last moved 2 d ago, 23 Oct 2026 +0.2%
Steady: the cheapest zone stayed within 2% over 30 days.
Tracked since 1 Mar 2026, read every few minutes.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 110pod cap | $73.46 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 103cpu | $78.45 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 51cpu | $158.45 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 25cpu | $323.23 |
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 $116,364 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 20% across sizes.
452.1g CO₂ an hour in us-east4
330 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $8,074.71 | $4,579.97 | 43% | 366 | |
| $8,074.71 | $4,579.97 | 43% | 287 | |
| $8,074.71 | $4,804.15 | 41% | 341 | |
| $8,080.71 | $4,848.39 | 40% | 452 | |
| $8,407.30 | $4,298.94 | 49% | 1,014 | |
| $8,882.19 | $828.76 | 91% | 795 | |
| $8,885.00 | $4,341.78 | 51% | 275 | |
| $8,891.00 | $827.86 | 91% | 201 |
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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