The c4a-highmem-48 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 48 vCPU and 384 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $2,065.26 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 $35,666 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.
1,461.2g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
1,066.7 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $2,065.26 | $464.07 | 78% | 2,853 | |
| $2,065.26 | $1,074.54 | 48% | 1,461 | |
| $2,065.26 | $1,074.54 | 48% | 3,205 | |
| $2,065.26 | $1,230.18 | 40% | 1,935 | |
| $2,065.26 | $1,074.54 | 48% | 1,228 | |
| $2,065.26 | $1,074.54 | 48% | 1,566 | |
| $2,147.74 | $824.70 | 62% | 4,340 | |
| $2,168.56 | $288.38 | 87% | 2,845 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-highmem-48?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