The e2-highmem-2 is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 2 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $65.99 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 $950.18 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.
4.1g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
3 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $65.99 | $35.01 | 47% | 8 | |
| $65.99 | $39.60 | 40% | 4 | |
| $65.99 | $39.60 | 40% | 4 | |
| $65.99 | $39.60 | 40% | 3 | |
| $69.29 | $18.54 | 73% | 7 | |
| $71.93 | $25.92 | 64% | 7 | |
| $72.59 | $39.05 | 46% | 10 | |
| $72.59 | $37.24 | 49% | 3 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/e2-highmem-2?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