The c4a-highcpu-8 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 8 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $221.22 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 $3,821 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.
41.1g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
30 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $221.22 | $115.07 | 48% | 44 | |
| $221.22 | $115.07 | 48% | 41 | |
| $221.22 | $115.07 | 48% | 90 | |
| $221.22 | $115.07 | 48% | 35 | |
| $221.22 | $49.73 | 78% | 80 | |
| $221.22 | $131.76 | 40% | 54 | |
| $230.06 | $88.32 | 62% | 122 | |
| $232.27 | $30.89 | 87% | 80 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-highcpu-8?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