The z3-highmem-16-highlssd is a storage optimised instance in the z3 family with 16 vCPU and 128 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $1,681.82 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 $28,502 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 18% across sizes.
133.4g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
97.4 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $1,681.82 | $890.10 | 47% | 133 | |
| $1,681.82 | $890.10 | 47% | 143 | |
| $1,681.82 | $890.10 | 47% | 112 | |
| $1,729.82 | $472.87 | 73% | 177 | |
| $1,765.91 | $615.76 | 65% | 242 | |
| $1,789.91 | $514.96 | 71% | 260 | |
| $1,825.89 | $332.87 | 82% | 396 | |
| $1,825.93 | $440.06 | 76% | 388 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/z3-highmem-16-highlssd?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