The e2-highcpu-16 is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 16 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $288.91 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 42 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 $4,159 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 979% across sizes.
157.4g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
114.9 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $288.91 | $173.38 | 40% | 157 | |
| $288.91 | $153.46 | 47% | 307 | |
| $288.91 | $173.38 | 40% | 169 | |
| $288.91 | $173.38 | 40% | 132 | |
| $303.35 | $81.19 | 73% | 286 | |
| $314.91 | $113.51 | 64% | 286 | |
| $317.80 | $170.89 | 46% | 367 | |
| $317.81 | $112.23 | 65% | 461 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/e2-highcpu-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