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The c4-highcpu-2 is a compute optimised instance in the c4 family with 2 vCPU and 4 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $62.09 a month on-demand in us-east4 (N. Virginia) 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 | 19cpu | $3.27 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 5memory | $12.42 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 2memory | $31.04 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 0 | — |
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 $900.98 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.
3g CO₂ an hour in us-east4
2.2 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $62.09 | $37.16 | 40% | 2 | |
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| $62.09 | $37.16 | 40% | 2 | |
| $62.09 | $36.98 | 40% | 4 | |
| $62.09 | $37.06 | 40% | 3 | |
| $64.57 | $21.31 | 67% | 7 | |
| $64.57 | $26.84 | 58% | 7 | |
| $65.19 | $19.51 | 70% | 4 |
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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