The e2-highcpu-8 is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 8 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $144.45 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 $2,080 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.
39.8g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
29 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $144.45 | $86.69 | 40% | 43 | |
| $144.45 | $76.73 | 47% | 78 | |
| $144.45 | $86.69 | 40% | 40 | |
| $144.45 | $86.69 | 40% | 33 | |
| $151.68 | $40.59 | 73% | 72 | |
| $157.45 | $56.75 | 64% | 72 | |
| $158.90 | $85.45 | 46% | 93 | |
| $158.90 | $81.47 | 49% | 32 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/e2-highcpu-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