The c4a-highcpu-1 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 1 vCPU and 2 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $27.65 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 $477.67 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.
0.8g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
0.6 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 26× the cleanest.
| $27.65 | $14.38 | 48% | 1 | |
| $27.65 | $14.38 | 48% | 2 | |
| $27.65 | $14.38 | 48% | 1 | |
| $27.65 | $6.22 | 78% | 2 | |
| $27.65 | $16.47 | 40% | 1 | |
| $27.65 | $14.38 | 48% | 1 | |
| $28.76 | $11.04 | 62% | 2 | |
| $29.03 | $3.86 | 87% | 2 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-highcpu-1?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