Standard_G1

Standard_G1 is an Azure VM size with 2 vCPUs, 28 GiB memory. In East US it costs $0.55 per hour on demand ($401.50 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.1016 per hour. It is sold in 14 regions; the cheapest is UK South at $0.439 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
UK South uksouth	$0.439	$0.0811	$0.3336	$0.2415
Canada Central canadacentral	$0.484	$0.1334	$0.3678	$0.2662
Canada East canadaeast	$0.484	$0.0894	$0.3678	$0.2662
West US 2 westus2	$0.49	$0.0906	$0.3381	$0.2303
East US eastus	$0.55	$0.1016	–	–
East US 2 eastus2	$0.55	$0.189	$0.3795	$0.2585
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$0.55	$0.1016	–	–
Japan East japaneast	$0.576	$0.1064	$0.4378	$0.3168
West US westus	$0.61	$0.1127	$0.4209	$0.2867
Australia East australiaeast	$0.638	$0.118	$0.4849	$0.3509
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$0.66	$0.122	$0.5016	$0.363
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$0.6875	$0.1271	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$0.6875	$0.1271	–	–
West Europe westeurope	$0.7	$0.1294	$0.532	$0.385

Spot prices by region Windows prices by region

Prices by operating system in East US

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.55	–	–
Windows	$0.61	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	2
Physical cores	2
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
ACU (compute units)	180

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	28

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	2

Storage	Value
Temp disk	384 GiB
Max data disks	8
Premium SSD	No
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	5,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	125 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	No

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_G1
Family	G
VM generations	V1
Encryption at host	No
Retirement date	2028-11-15

Other	Value
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Other G sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_G1	2	28	$0.55
Standard_G2	4	56	$1.10

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.