The e2-standard-8 is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 8 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $195.67 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 $2,817 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.
42.3g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
30.9 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $195.67 | $117.42 | 40% | 42 | |
| $195.67 | $103.87 | 47% | 83 | |
| $195.67 | $117.42 | 40% | 36 | |
| $195.67 | $117.42 | 40% | 45 | |
| $205.46 | $54.98 | 73% | 77 | |
| $213.28 | $76.87 | 64% | 77 | |
| $215.24 | $115.77 | 46% | 99 | |
| $215.25 | $76.07 | 65% | 124 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/e2-standard-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