a2-ultragpu-1g

a2-ultragpu-1g is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 12 vCPUs, 170 GiB memory, 1 GPU (Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)). In Iowa it costs $5.069 per hour on demand ($3,700.22 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $4.215 per hour, 17% less. Spot capacity is about $3.036 per hour. It is sold in 5 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	$5.069	$3.036	$4.215	$3.523
Columbus us-east5	$5.565	$1.845	$4.655	$3.914
Netherlands europe-west4	$5.577	$3.067	$4.637	$3.874
Northern Virginia us-east4	$5.704	$2.529	$4.742	$3.962
Singapore asia-southeast1	$6.244	$3.743	$5.19	$4.336

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

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

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	170

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	1
GPU	NVIDIA A100 80GB

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 24 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	1 x 375 GiB NVMe local SSD
Max persistent disks	128

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

Other	Value
Series	A2
Specs source	Compute Engine API

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.