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The c4-highcpu-4 is a compute optimised instance in the c4 family with 4 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $124.18 a month on-demand in us-east5 (Columbus) and is offered in 43 regions.
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26 Sept 2026
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Steady: the cheapest zone stayed within 2% over 29 days.
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| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 39cpu | $3.18 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 12memory | $10.35 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 6memory | $20.70 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 1memory | $124.18 |
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 $1,807 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.
16.3g CO₂ an hour in us-east5
11.9 kg a month. Grid 475 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $124.18 | $74.12 | 40% | 11 | |
| $124.18 | $74.33 | 40% | 7 | |
| $124.18 | $74.33 | 40% | 9 | |
| $124.18 | $74.33 | 40% | 8 | |
| $124.18 | $73.97 | 40% | 16 | |
| $129.14 | $42.61 | 67% | 25 | |
| $129.15 | $53.69 | 58% | 24 | |
| $130.38 | $39.02 | 70% | 15 |
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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