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The c2-standard-8 is a compute optimised instance in the c2 family with 8 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on Intel Cascade Lake. It costs $304.86 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 42 regions.
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1 Mar 2026
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Steady: the cheapest zone stayed within 2% over 30 days.
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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 79cpu | $3.86 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 31cpu | $9.83 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 15cpu | $20.32 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 7cpu | $43.55 |
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 $5,334 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
40g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
29.2 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $0 | $49.92 | 73 | ||
| $304.86 | $156.70 | 49% | 34 | |
| $304.86 | $156.70 | 49% | 40 | |
| $304.86 | $45.49 | 85% | 78 | |
| $304.86 | $156.70 | 49% | 43 | |
| $320.10 | $28.79 | 91% | 73 | |
| $335.35 | $34.50 | 90% | 93 | |
| $335.36 | $199.73 | 40% | 32 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c2-standard-8?region=us-central1"
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