The n1-standard-8 is a general purpose instance in the n1 family with 8 vCPU and 30 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $277.40 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 $4,853 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 277% across sizes.
42.1g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
30.7 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
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| $277.40 | $142.60 | 49% | 35 | |
| $277.40 | $25.05 | 91% | 82 | |
| $277.40 | $142.60 | 49% | 45 | |
| $277.40 | $142.60 | 49% | 42 | |
| $305.14 | $167.79 | 45% | 98 | |
| $305.15 | $156.99 | 49% | 34 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n1-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