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The c4-highcpu-24 is a compute optimised instance in the c4 family with 24 vCPU and 48 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $745.06 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 | $6.77 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 86memory | $8.66 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 43memory | $17.33 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 10memory | $74.51 |
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 $10,768 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.
294.7g CO₂ an hour in us-east1
215.1 kg a month. Grid 261 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $745.06 | $444.73 | 40% | 364 | |
| $745.06 | $443.82 | 40% | 537 | |
| $745.06 | $445.95 | 40% | 231 | |
| $745.06 | $445.95 | 40% | 275 | |
| $745.06 | $445.95 | 40% | 295 | |
| $774.86 | $255.69 | 67% | 817 | |
| $774.88 | $322.12 | 58% | 799 | |
| $782.27 | $234.10 | 70% | 499 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4-highcpu-24?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