m5.metalvsm6i.metal

m5.metal is 25% cheaper than m6i.metal on demand in US East (N. Virginia), saving $1,121.28 a month. Per vCPU, m5.metal costs 0% less.

At a glancem5.metalm6i.metal
On-demand$4.608/hr25% less$6.144/hr
Lowest rate$0.9496/hr23% lessSpot, can be interrupted$1.235/hrSpot, can be interrupted
Size96 vCPUs, 384 GiB128 vCPUs, 512 GiB
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
Architecturex86_64x86_64

Prices in US East (N. Virginia)

“Off” is the discount against each type’s own on-demand price. Linux, USD per hour.

Optionm5.metalm6i.metalm6i.metal vs m5.metal
On-demandPay by the hour$4.608$6.144▲ 33%
SpotCan be interrupted79% off$0.949680% off$1.235▲ 30%
1-yr reservedNo upfront37% off$2.90334% off$4.064▲ 40%
3-yr reservedNo upfront57% off$1.99155% off$2.787▲ 40%
1-yr savings planHourly commitment27% off$3.38527% off$4.514▲ 33%
3-yr savings planHourly commitment49% off$2.33749% off$3.116▲ 33%

Key differences

The biggest lead each one has.

Where m5.metal leads
On-demand price$4.608 vs $6.144 per hour
25% cheaper
Where m6i.metal leads
EBS baseline bandwidth40,000 Mbps vs 19,000 Mbps
2.1× higher
Network baseline50 Gbps vs 25 Gbps
2× higher
vCPUs128 vs 96
33% higher
Memory (GiB)512 vs 384
33% higher

Specs

20 of 40 specs differ. Those are in bold.

Compute6 of 11 differm5.metalm6i.metal
vCPUs96128
Physical cores4864
Threads per core22
Architecturex86_64x86_64
ProcessorIntel Xeon Platinum 8175Intel Xeon 8375C (Ice Lake)
CPU makerIntelIntel
Clock speed3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Sustained clock3.1 GHz3.5 GHz
Processor featuresIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel TurboIntel AVX; Intel AVX2; Intel AVX512; Intel Turbo
BurstableNoNo
ECU345–
Memory1 of 1 differm5.metalm6i.metal
Memory (GiB)384512
Networking4 of 8 differm5.metalm6i.metal
Network25 Gigabit50000 Megabit
Network baseline25 Gbps50 Gbps
Network peak25 Gbps50 Gbps
Enhanced networkingYes (ENA)Yes (ENA)
EFANoYes
IPv6YesYes
Max network interfaces1515
IPv4 addresses per interface5050
Storage7 of 11 differm5.metalm6i.metal
StorageEBS onlyEBS only
EBS optimizedYesYes
EBS over NVMeRequiredRequired
EBS throughput12000 Mbps40000 Mbps
EBS baseline bandwidth19,000 Mbps40,000 Mbps
EBS max bandwidth19,000 Mbps40,000 Mbps
EBS baseline throughput2,375 MB/s5,000 MB/s
EBS max throughput2,375 MB/s5,000 MB/s
EBS baseline IOPS80,000160,000
EBS max IOPS80,000160,000
Max EBS volumes3131
Instance details2 of 9 differm5.metalm6i.metal
Familym5m6i
CategoryGeneral purposeGeneral purpose
Current generationYesYes
Normalization factor192256
Bare metalYesYes
Placement groupsCluster, Partition, SpreadCluster, Partition, Spread
HibernationNoNo
Nitro EnclavesNoNo
Boot modesLegacy BIOSLegacy BIOS

On-demand prices by region

Cheapest for m5.metal first. Linux, USD per hour.

Regionm5.metalm6i.metalDifference
US East (N. Virginia)Used in summaryus-east-1$4.608$6.144▲ 33%
US East (Ohio)us-east-2$4.608$6.144▲ 33%
US West (Oregon)us-west-2$4.608$6.144▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)ap-south-2$4.848$6.464▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1$4.848$6.464▲ 33%
EU (Stockholm)eu-north-1$4.896$6.528▲ 33%
Canada (Central)ca-central-1$5.136$6.848▲ 33%
Canada West (Calgary)ca-west-1$5.136$6.848▲ 33%
EU (Ireland)eu-west-1$5.136$6.848▲ 33%
EU (London)eu-west-2$5.328$7.104▲ 33%
EU (Milan)eu-south-1$5.376$7.168▲ 33%
EU (Paris)eu-west-3$5.376$7.168▲ 33%
US West (N. California)us-west-1$5.376$7.168▲ 33%
Israel (Tel Aviv)il-central-1$5.393$7.19▲ 33%
EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1$5.52$7.36▲ 33%
Middle East (Bahrain)me-south-1$5.65$8.448▲ 50%
Middle East (UAE)me-central-1$5.65$7.533▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2$5.664$7.552▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Jakarta)ap-southeast-3$5.76$7.68▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Singapore)ap-southeast-1$5.76$7.68▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2$5.76$7.68▲ 33%
AWS GovCloud (US-East)us-gov-east-1$5.808$7.744▲ 33%
AWS GovCloud (US-West)us-gov-west-1$5.808$7.744▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Osaka)ap-northeast-3$5.952$7.936▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1$5.952$7.936▲ 33%
Europe (Zurich)eu-central-2$6.072$8.096▲ 33%
Africa (Cape Town)af-south-1$6.096$8.128▲ 33%
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)ap-east-1$6.336$8.448▲ 33%
South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1$7.344$9.792▲ 33%

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m5.metalGeneral purpose, m5 family
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m6i.metalGeneral purpose, m6i family
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AWS EC2 Linux prices in USD. Monthly figures use 730 hours. Prices last updated 12 Nov 2026.