The n2-highcpu-8 is a general purpose instance in the n2 family with 8 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Cascade Lake. It costs $209.35 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 40 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 $3,016 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 83% across sizes.
37.5g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
27.4 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $209.35 | $125.57 | 40% | 40 | |
| $209.35 | $125.57 | 40% | 32 | |
| $209.35 | $125.63 | 40% | 73 | |
| $209.35 | $125.57 | 40% | 38 | |
| $230.29 | $138.09 | 40% | 87 | |
| $230.29 | $52.17 | 77% | 30 | |
| $230.29 | $65.38 | 72% | 110 | |
| $230.48 | $20.73 | 91% | 29 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n2-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