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The c4-highcpu-48 is a compute optimised instance in the c4 family with 48 vCPU and 96 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $1,490.11 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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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 110pod cap | $13.55 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 110pod cap | $13.55 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 88memory | $16.93 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 22memory | $67.73 |
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 $21,624 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.
1,443.3g CO₂ an hour in us-east4
1,053.6 kg a month. Grid 322 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $1,490.11 | $887.63 | 40% | 2,128 | |
| $1,490.11 | $891.91 | 40% | 1,168 | |
| $1,490.11 | $889.46 | 40% | 1,443 | |
| $1,490.11 | $891.91 | 40% | 1,090 | |
| $1,490.11 | $891.91 | 40% | 916 | |
| $1,549.72 | $511.37 | 67% | 3,237 | |
| $1,549.76 | $644.25 | 58% | 3,167 | |
| $1,564.54 | $468.20 | 70% | 1,979 |
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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