a2-highgpu-8g

a2-highgpu-8g is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 96 vCPUs, 680 GiB memory, 8 GPUs (Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)). In Iowa it costs $29.387 per hour on demand ($21,452.58 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $18.514 per hour, 37% less. Spot capacity is about $17.504 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	$29.387	$17.504	$18.514	$10.286
South Carolina us-east1	$29.387	$17.504	$18.514	$10.286
Oregon us-west1	$29.387	$17.504	$18.514	$10.286
Netherlands europe-west4	$29.984	$14.614	$18.89	$10.495
Las Vegas us-west4	$31.475	$15.343	$19.656	$11.06
Singapore asia-southeast1	$32.11	$19.218	$20.056	$11.283
Tel Aviv me-west1	$32.326	$19.395	$20.365	$11.314
Tokyo asia-northeast1	$32.397	$19.34	$20.237	$11.383
Seoul asia-northeast3	$32.397	$18.331	$20.237	$11.383
Salt Lake City us-west3	$34.60	$19.575	$21.952	$11.729

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	96
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	680

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	8
GPU	NVIDIA A100 40GB

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 100 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	Network disks only
Max persistent disks	128

Instance details	Value
Instance type	a2-highgpu-8g
Family	a2
Category	Accelerator optimized

Other	Value
Series	A2
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Compare a2-highgpu-8g

Other generations

vs a3-highgpu-8g

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.