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The c4-highcpu-16 is a compute optimised instance in the c4 family with 16 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $496.70 a month on-demand in us-east1 (South Carolina) and is offered in 43 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 | 110pod cap | $4.52 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 56memory | $8.87 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 28memory | $17.74 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 7memory | $70.96 |
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 $7,178 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 102% across sizes.
132.2g CO₂ an hour in us-east1
96.5 kg a month. Grid 261 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $496.70 | $297.30 | 40% | 123 | |
| $496.70 | $295.88 | 40% | 241 | |
| $496.70 | $297.30 | 40% | 132 | |
| $496.70 | $296.49 | 40% | 163 | |
| $496.70 | $297.30 | 40% | 104 | |
| $516.57 | $170.46 | 67% | 366 | |
| $516.59 | $214.75 | 58% | 358 | |
| $521.51 | $156.07 | 70% | 224 |
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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