The c4a-highmem-16 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 16 vCPU and 128 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $688.42 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 $11,889 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.
171.3g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
125.1 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $688.42 | $358.18 | 48% | 376 | |
| $688.42 | $358.18 | 48% | 144 | |
| $688.42 | $358.18 | 48% | 171 | |
| $688.42 | $154.69 | 78% | 335 | |
| $688.42 | $410.06 | 40% | 227 | |
| $688.42 | $358.18 | 48% | 184 | |
| $715.91 | $274.90 | 62% | 509 | |
| $722.85 | $96.13 | 87% | 334 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-highmem-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