The c4a-highcpu-16 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 16 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $442.44 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 33 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $7,643 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 96% across sizes.
161.2g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
117.7 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $442.44 | $230.14 | 48% | 136 | |
| $442.44 | $230.14 | 48% | 173 | |
| $442.44 | $99.47 | 78% | 315 | |
| $442.44 | $230.14 | 48% | 161 | |
| $442.44 | $263.52 | 40% | 214 | |
| $442.44 | $230.14 | 48% | 354 | |
| $460.12 | $176.65 | 62% | 479 | |
| $464.54 | $61.79 | 87% | 314 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-highcpu-16?region=us-central1"
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