The c4a-highmem-8 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 8 vCPU and 64 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $344.21 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 $5,944 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.
46.2g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
33.7 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $344.21 | $179.09 | 48% | 39 | |
| $344.21 | $179.09 | 48% | 46 | |
| $344.21 | $205.03 | 40% | 61 | |
| $344.21 | $77.34 | 78% | 90 | |
| $344.21 | $179.09 | 48% | 101 | |
| $344.21 | $179.09 | 48% | 49 | |
| $357.96 | $137.45 | 62% | 137 | |
| $361.43 | $176.65 | 51% | 84 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-highmem-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