The c4a-standard-16 is a compute optimised instance in the c4a family with 16 vCPU and 64 GiB of memory on Ampere Altra (Arm). It costs $524.43 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 $9,058 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.
164.6g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
120.2 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $524.43 | $272.82 | 48% | 138 | |
| $524.43 | $272.82 | 48% | 176 | |
| $524.43 | $117.87 | 78% | 321 | |
| $524.43 | $272.82 | 48% | 361 | |
| $524.43 | $272.82 | 48% | 165 | |
| $524.43 | $312.37 | 40% | 218 | |
| $545.39 | $209.40 | 62% | 489 | |
| $550.64 | $269.15 | 51% | 299 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/c4a-standard-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