Compute Engine pricing

This page lists all the pricing for Compute Engine.

Compute Engine charges for usage based on the following price sheet. A bill is sent out at the end of each billing cycle, providing a sum of Google Cloud charges. Prices on this page are listed in U.S. dollars (USD).

For Compute Engine, disk size, machine type memory, and network usage are calculated in gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB is 2³⁰ bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as a gibibyte (GiB).

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

You can also find pricing information with the following options:

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Estimate your total project costs with the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.
View and download prices from the Pricing Table in the Google Cloud console.
View more information about costs and usage in Cloud Billing reports.
Use the Cloud Billing Catalog API for programmatic access to SKU information.

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General-purpose machine types

C3 machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

C3 standard machine types

C3 high-memory machine types

C3 high-CPU machine types

C3D machine types

C3D standard machine types

C3D high-memory machine types

C3D high-CPU machine types

E2 machine types

E2 standard machine types

E2 high-memory machine types

E2 high-CPU machine types

E2 custom vCPUs and memory

E2 custom and E2 shared-core custom machine types are subject to the same pricing rates. E2 shared-core custom machines have fractional vCPUs with a custom memory range.

0.25 vCPU for micro machines
0.50 vCPU for small machines
1 vCPU for medium machines

N2 machine types

N2 standard machine types

N2 high-memory machine types

N2 high-CPU machine types

N2 custom vCPUs and memory

N2 extended custom memory

N2D machine types

N2D standard machine types

N2D high-memory machine types

N2D high-CPU machine types

N2D custom vCPUs and memory

N2D extended custom memory

Tau T2D machine types

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Tau T2D standard machine types

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Tau T2A machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Tau T2A standard machine types

The following table shows the calculated costs for standard predefined machine types in the Tau T2A machine family. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual predefined vCPU and memory prices, but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

Standard machine types have 4 GB of memory per vCPU.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

N1 machine types

N1 standard machine types

N1 high-memory machine types

N1 high-CPU machine types

N1 custom vCPUs and memory

N1 extended custom memory

Compute-optimized machine types

H3 machine types

H3 VMs are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), DDR5 memory, and Google's custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Engine (IPU). The following table describes the pricing per vCPU and GB of memory for H3 machine types.

H3 Standard machine types

The following table shows the calculated cost for h3-standard-88 machine types, which is the H3 predefined machine type. The vCPUs and memory from each of these machine types are billed by their individual compute-optimized vCPUs and memory prices but these tables provide the cost that you can expect using a specific machine type.

C2 vCPUs and memory

C2 machine types

^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

C2D vCPUs and memory

C2D standard machine types

C2D high-memory machine types

C2D high-CPU machine types

Memory-optimized machine types

M3 memory-optimized machine types

Committed Use Discounts apply to memory-optimized machine types only if you buy the commitment type specifically for M3 machine types.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

M2 memory-optimized machine types

M1 memory-optimized machine types

Note: The prefix in the following machine names changed from "n1" to "m1" to more clearly identify the machines as members of the memory-optimized machine family:

n1-megamem-96 is now m1-megamem-96
n1-ultramem-40 is now m1-ultramem-40
n1-ultramem-80 is now m1-ultramem-80
n1-ultramem-160 is now m1-ultramem-160

The machines themselves did not change and the former names are still supported as aliases for these machines.

Committed Use Discounts apply to memory-optimized machine types only if you buy the commitment type specifically for memory-optimized machine types.
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

Accelerator-optimized machine type family

A2 standard machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply. ^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

A2 ultra machine types

The following table shows the total calculated cost that you can expect for these predefined A2 ultra machine types. This total cost includes the cost for the GPUs, vCPU, memory, and local SSD.

**For committed use discounts pricing on the A2 ultra machine series, connect with your sales account team.
If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply. ^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

G2 machine types

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply. ^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days, but always provide discounts of 60-91% off of the corresponding on-demand price for machine types and GPUs. Spot prices also provide smaller discounts for local SSDs. For more information, see the Spot VMs documentation.

Shared-core machine types

E2 shared-core machine types

E2 shared-core custom machine types are subject to the same pricing rates as E2 custom machines. These instances have fractional vCPUs with a custom memory range.

N1 shared-core machine types

Tier_1 higher bandwidth network pricing

You can configure your N2, N2D, C2, C2D, C3, C3D and M3 machine types to use per VM Tier_1 networking performance. To use this option you must use a machine type with at least:

30 vCPUs for C2
32 vCPUs for N2
44 vCPUs for C3
30 vCPUs for C3D
48 vCPUs for N2D
64 vCPUs for M3

Pricing is also dependent upon the regions and zones where the VM is located.

N2, N2D, C2, M3

C2D

C3

The cost of using Tier_1 networking with C3 is described in the following table.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.
^*Spot prices are dynamic and can change up to once every 30 days. For more information about Spot VM pricing, see the Spot VMs documentation.

C3D

The cost of using Tier_1 networking with C3D is described in the following table.

Suspended VM instances

When you suspend an instance, Compute Engine preserves the memory and device state. While you are not charged for the VM instance as if it were running, suspended instances still incur charges for the following:

Suspended instance memory and device state.
Any persistent disk usage.
Any static IPs attached to the VM instance.

Sole-tenant node pricing

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Premium images

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL for SAP images

RHEL images:

$0.06 USD/hour for instances with 4 or fewer vCPUs
$0.13 USD/hour for instances with more than 4 vCPUs

RHEL 6 ELS images:

$0.02 USD/hour for instances with 4 or fewer vCPUs
$0.05 USD/hour for instances with more than 4 vCPUs

RHEL for SAP with HA and Update Services images:

$0.10 USD/hour for instances with 4 or fewer vCPUs
$0.225 USD/hour for instances with more than 4 vCPUs

All RHEL and RHEL for SAP images are charged a 1 minute minimum. After 1 minute, RHEL images are charged in 1 second increments.

You can purchase commitments and receive committed use discounts (CUDs) for your RHEL and RHEL for SAP licenses. Because you commit to a minimum level of resource usage when you purchase your license commitment, you have to pay the agreed-upon prices for the duration of that commitment, even if your resource usage is lower than that minimum level. As a result, to maximize the benefit of your CUDs, ensure that you use all of your committed licenses and run VMs with those licenses for 100% time of your commitment's term. To learn more about CUDs for licenses and how to purchase a commitment, see Purchase commitments for licenses.

SLES and SLES for SAP images

SLES images:

$0.02 USD/hour for f1-micro and g1-small machine types
$0.11 USD/hour for all other machine types

SLES for SAP images:

$0.17 USD/hour for instances with 1 - 2 vCPUs
$0.34 USD/hour for instances with 3 - 4 vCPUs
$0.41 USD/hour for instances with 5 or more vCPUs

All SLES images are charged a 1 minute minimum. After 1 minute, SLES images are charged in 1 second increments.

You can purchase commitments and receive committed use discounts (CUDs) for your SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and SLES for SAP licenses. Because you commit to a minimum level of resource usage when you purchase your license commitment, you have to pay the agreed-upon prices for the duration of that commitment, even if your resource usage is lower than that minimum level. As a result, to maximize the benefit of your CUDs, ensure that you use all of your committed licenses and run VMs with those licenses for 100% time of your commitment's term. To learn more about CUDs for licenses and how to purchase a commitment, see Purchase commitments for licenses.

Ubuntu pro images

The following sections outline the license cost for using Ubuntu Pro images on Compute Engine

Memory

License cost for memory is charged at one flat rate of $0.000127 per GB/hour in USD.

vCPU

License cost for vCPU varies by the number of vCPUs that the Ubuntu Pro VM has. The following table summarizes the license cost per hour in USD.

Number of vCPUs	License cost (USD)/hour
1	$0.001660
2	$0.002971
4	$0.005545
6 - 8	$0.009970
10 - 16	$0.018063
18 - 48	$0.033378
50 - 78	$0.060548
80 - 96	$0.077871
98 - 222	$0.102401
>222	$0.122063

Ubuntu pro GPU license

When running VMs that use the Ubuntu Pro images with attached GPUs, you incur license cost for the premium image and a GPU license in addition to the regular cost of running the VM and the cost of the attached GPU.

The following table summarizes the per GPU license rates per month in USD for Ubuntu Pro VMs. The license fee varies based on the number of GPUs attached to the VM but is the same for all GPU models that are available on Compute Engine.

Number of GPUs	License cost (USD)
1	$0.035
2	$0.066
4	$0.120
8	$0.208
>8	$0.300

Windows Server images

If you use a Compute Engine Windows Server image or you import a Windows Server image without bringing your own licenses, you are billed based on the machine types you use as follows:

f1-micro and g1-small machine types: $0.023 USD/hour.
All other machine types: $0.046 USD/hour per visible vCPU. For example, n2-highcpu-4, and n2-highmem-4 have 4 vCPUs, so are charged at $0.184 USD/hour (4 x $0.046 USD/hour).

Windows Server images are charged a 1 minute minimum. After 1 minute, Windows images are charged in 1 second increments.

For information about licensing for Windows Server images, see Microsoft licenses.

SQL Server images

SQL Server images incur costs in addition to the cost for Windows Server images and the cost for the selected machine type.

$0.399 USD per core/hour for SQL Server Enterprise
$0.1200 USD per core/hour for SQL Server Standard
$0.011 USD per core/hour for SQL Server Web
No additional charge for SQL Server Express

Microsoft SQL Server licensing requires a core license to be assigned to each virtual CPU on your virtual machine instance, with a four core minimum for each instance. Instances with fewer than 4 vCPUs will be charged for 4 vCPUs to comply with these requirements.

Google recommends that you not use SQL Server images on f1-micro or g1-small machine types based on Microsoft's minimum hardware and software recommendations.

Unlike other premium images, SQL Server images are charged a 10 minute minimum. After 10 minutes, SQL Server images are charged in 1 minute increments.

For information about licensing for SQL Server OS images, see Microsoft licenses.

Disk pricing

The information included here doesn't include all Persistent Disk features. The basic disk pricing information is included here for convenience and is intended for reference purposes. For detailed pricing information and explanations about how disk pricing works, see the Disk and image pricing page.

Persistent disk space pricing

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Local SSD pricing

Custom image storage pricing

If you import or create custom images in Compute Engine, these images incur a storage cost. The cost of these custom images depends on the location where you store the image.

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

Machine image pricing

If you pay in a currency other than USD, the prices listed in your currency on Cloud Platform SKUs apply.

GPU pricing

^**For committed use discounts pricing on the A2 ultra machine series, connect with your sales account team.

What's next

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