The c3-standard-8 is a compute optimised instance in the c3 family with 8 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on Intel Ice Lake. It costs $294.35 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 41 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 $6,625 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 56% across sizes.
38.3g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
28 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $294.35 | $110.32 | 63% | 38 | |
| $294.35 | $110.32 | 63% | 32 | |
| $294.35 | $110.32 | 63% | 41 | |
| $294.35 | $74.48 | 75% | 51 | |
| $294.35 | $104.30 | 65% | 75 | |
| $306.12 | $50.21 | 84% | 114 | |
| $306.13 | $30.74 | 90% | 111 | |
| $309.07 | $92.52 | 70% | 70 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c3-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