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The c4a-highmem-2 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 2 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $86.05 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 $1,486 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.
4.1g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
3 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $86.05 | $44.77 | 48% | 4 | |
| $86.05 | $19.34 | 78% | 8 | |
| $86.05 | $51.26 | 40% | 5 | |
| $86.05 | $44.77 | 48% | 4 | |
| $86.05 | $44.77 | 48% | 3 | |
| $86.05 | $44.77 | 48% | 9 | |
| $89.49 | $34.36 | 62% | 12 | |
| $90.36 | $44.16 | 51% | 8 |
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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