Cloud.Google Compute Engine, $ (on request) on Linux/Windows Cloud

Pricing for Compute Engine is based on per-second usage of the machine types, persistent disks, and other resources that you select for your virtual machines. If you have a specific project in mind, use the pricing calculator to estimate cost. You can also reach out to our sales team to request a quote.

Item On-demand price Spot price* 1 year commitment price 3 year commitment price
Predefined vCPUs $15.92 / vCPU month $4.78 / vCPU month $10.03 / vCPU month $7.16 / vCPU month
Predefined Memory $2.13 / GB month $0.64 / GB month $1.34 / GB month $0.96 / GB month

Predefined machine types: Start running quickly with pre-built and ready-to-go configurations
Custom machine types: Create VMs with optimal amounts of vCPU and memory, while balancing cost
Spot machines: Reduce computing costs by up to 91%.
Confidential computing: Encrypt your most sensitive data while it’s being processed
Rightsizing recommendations: Optimize resource utilization with automatic recommendations

E2, N2, N2D, and N1 are general-purpose machines offering a good balance of price and performance, and are suitable for a wide variety of common workloads including databases, development and testing environments, web applications, and mobile gaming. They support up to 224 vCPUs and 896 GB of memory.

T2D offers the best price-performance compared to general-purpose VMs from any of the leading public cloud vendors. It is the first instance type in the Tau VM family and comes in predefined shapes, with up to 60vCPUs per VM and 4GB of memory per vCPU. T2D is ideal for scale-out workloads like web servers, containerized microservices, media transcoding, and large scale java applications.

Ultra-high memory (M2, M1)
Memory-optimized machines offer the highest memory configurations with up to 12 TB for a single instance. They are well suited to memory-intensive workloads such as large in-memory databases like SAP HANA, and in-memory data analytics workloads.