The c4-highmem-4 is a compute optimised instance in the c4 family with 4 vCPU and 31 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $190.29 a month on-demand in us-west1 (Oregon) 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 | 39cpu | $4.88 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 15cpu | $12.69 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 7cpu | $27.18 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 3cpu | $63.43 |
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 $2,750 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.
9g CO₂ an hour in us-west1
6.6 kg a month. Grid 205 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $190.29 | $113.90 | 40% | 12 | |
| $190.29 | $113.61 | 40% | 14 | |
| $190.29 | $113.90 | 40% | 9 | |
| $190.29 | $113.90 | 40% | 11 | |
| $190.29 | $113.36 | 40% | 21 | |
| $197.91 | $65.31 | 67% | 32 | |
| $197.91 | $82.28 | 58% | 31 | |
| $199.80 | $59.77 | 70% | 20 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4-highmem-4?region=us-west1"
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