The n2-standard-8 is a general purpose instance in the n2 family with 8 vCPU and 32 GiB of memory on Intel Cascade Lake. It costs $283.58 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 $4,085 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.
40g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
29.2 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $283.58 | $170.11 | 40% | 43 | |
| $283.58 | $170.11 | 40% | 34 | |
| $283.58 | $170.11 | 40% | 40 | |
| $283.58 | $170.17 | 40% | 78 | |
| $311.94 | $187.08 | 40% | 93 | |
| $311.96 | $88.62 | 72% | 117 | |
| $311.96 | $70.64 | 77% | 32 | |
| $312.19 | $86.75 | 72% | 78 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n2-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