The e2-highcpu-4 is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 4 vCPU and 4 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $72.23 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 $1,040 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.
10.2g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
7.4 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $72.23 | $38.37 | 47% | 20 | |
| $72.23 | $43.34 | 40% | 10 | |
| $72.23 | $43.34 | 40% | 11 | |
| $72.23 | $43.34 | 40% | 9 | |
| $75.84 | $20.30 | 73% | 18 | |
| $78.73 | $28.38 | 64% | 18 | |
| $79.45 | $42.72 | 46% | 24 | |
| $79.45 | $28.06 | 65% | 30 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/e2-highcpu-4?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