a2-ultragpu-8g

a2-ultragpu-8g is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 96 vCPUs, 1360 GiB memory, 8 GPUs (Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)). In Iowa it costs $40.55 per hour on demand ($29,601.79 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $33.719 per hour, 17% less. Spot capacity is about $24.29 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	$40.55	$24.29	$33.719	$28.181
Columbus us-east5	$44.519	$14.763	$37.236	$31.31
Netherlands europe-west4	$44.614	$24.534	$37.093	$30.996
Northern Virginia us-east4	$45.629	$20.232	$37.935	$31.698
Singapore asia-southeast1	$49.949	$29.947	$41.522	$34.689

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

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

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	1360

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	8
GPU	NVIDIA A100 80GB

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 100 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	8 x 375 GiB NVMe local SSD
Max persistent disks	128

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

Other	Value
Series	A2
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Compare a2-ultragpu-8g

Other generations

vs a3-ultragpu-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.