a2-highgpu-1g

a2-highgpu-1g is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 12 vCPUs, 85 GiB memory, 1 GPU (Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)). In Iowa it costs $3.673 per hour on demand ($2,681.58 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $2.314 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $2.188 per hour. It is sold in 10 regions.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Committed use prices are billed monthly. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr committed use	3-yr committed use
Iowa us-central1	$3.673	$2.188	$2.314	$1.286
South Carolina us-east1	$3.673	$2.188	$2.314	$1.286
Oregon us-west1	$3.673	$2.188	$2.314	$1.286
Netherlands europe-west4	$3.748	$1.827	$2.361	$1.312
Las Vegas us-west4	$3.934	$1.918	$2.457	$1.383
Singapore asia-southeast1	$4.014	$2.402	$2.507	$1.41
Tel Aviv me-west1	$4.041	$2.424	$2.546	$1.414
Tokyo asia-northeast1	$4.05	$2.417	$2.53	$1.423
Seoul asia-northeast3	$4.05	$2.291	$2.53	$1.423
Salt Lake City us-west3	$4.325	$2.447	$2.744	$1.466

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	12
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	85

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	1
GPU	NVIDIA A100 40GB

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 24 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	Network disks only
Max persistent disks	128

Instance details	Value
Instance type	a2-highgpu-1g
Family	a2
Category	Accelerator optimized

Other	Value
Series	A2
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Compare a2-highgpu-1g

Other generations

vs a3-highgpu-1g

Other a2 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
a2-highgpu-1g	12	85	$3.673
a2-ultragpu-1g	12	170	$5.069
a2-highgpu-2g	24	170	$7.347
a2-ultragpu-2g	24	340	$10.138
a2-highgpu-4g	48	340	$14.694
a2-ultragpu-4g	48	680	$20.275
a2-highgpu-8g	96	680	$29.387
a2-megagpu-16g	96	1360	$55.739
a2-ultragpu-8g	96	1360	$40.55

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Google Cloud Billing Catalog API. Compare all GCP Compute Engine sizes.