a2-highgpu-2g

a2-highgpu-2g is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 24 vCPUs, 170 GiB memory, 2 GPUs (Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)). In Iowa it costs $7.347 per hour on demand ($5,363.16 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $4.628 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $4.376 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	$7.347	$4.376	$4.628	$2.571
South Carolina us-east1	$7.347	$4.376	$4.628	$2.571
Oregon us-west1	$7.347	$4.376	$4.628	$2.571
Netherlands europe-west4	$7.496	$3.654	$4.722	$2.624
Las Vegas us-west4	$7.869	$3.836	$4.914	$2.765
Singapore asia-southeast1	$8.027	$4.804	$5.014	$2.821
Tel Aviv me-west1	$8.081	$4.849	$5.091	$2.829
Tokyo asia-northeast1	$8.099	$4.835	$5.059	$2.846
Seoul asia-northeast3	$8.099	$4.583	$5.059	$2.846
Salt Lake City us-west3	$8.65	$4.894	$5.488	$2.932

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	24
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	170

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	2
GPU	NVIDIA A100 40GB

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 32 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	Network disks only
Max persistent disks	128

Instance details	Value
Instance type	a2-highgpu-2g
Family	a2
Category	Accelerator optimized

Other	Value
Series	A2
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Compare a2-highgpu-2g

Other generations

vs a3-highgpu-2g

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.