a3-ultragpu-8g

a3-ultragpu-8g is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 224 vCPUs, 2952 GiB memory, 8 GPUs (Intel Xeon (Emerald Rapids) or Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids)). In Iowa it costs $84.807 per hour on demand ($61,909.04 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $58.959 per hour, 30% less. Spot capacity is about $50.871 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	$84.807	$50.871	$58.959	$37.932
Northern Virginia us-east4	$84.807	$45.727	$58.959	$37.932
Oregon us-west1	$84.807	$50.871	$58.959	$37.932
Belgium europe-west1	$93.262	$55.941	$64.778	$41.635
Mumbai asia-south1	$101.51	$60.108	$70.475	$45.26

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	224
Architecture	x86_64
Processor	Intel Xeon (Emerald Rapids) or Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids)

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	2952

Accelerators	Value
GPUs	8
GPU	NVIDIA H200 141GB

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 3,600 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	32 x 375 GiB NVMe local SSD
Max persistent disks	128

Instance details	Value
Instance type	a3-ultragpu-8g
Family	a3
Category	Accelerator optimized

Other	Value
Series	A3
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Compare a3-ultragpu-8g

Other generations

vs a2-ultragpu-8g

Other a3 sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
a3-highgpu-1g	26	234	$11.061
a3-highgpu-2g	52	468	$22.122
a3-highgpu-4g	104	936	$44.245
a3-edgegpu-8g	208	1872	$88.49
a3-edgegpu-8g-nolssd	208	1872	$87.832
a3-highgpu-8g	208	1872	$88.49
a3-megagpu-8g	208	1872	$93.401
a3-ultragpu-8g	224	2952	$84.807
a3-ultragpu-8g-nolssd	224	2952	$83.492

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