c4a-highmem-96-metal

c4a-highmem-96-metal is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB memory (Google Axion). In Iowa it costs $5.658 per hour on demand ($4,130.49 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $3.73 per hour, 34% less. Spot capacity is about $2.79 per hour. It is sold in 7 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	$5.658	$2.79	$3.73	$2.547
Northern Virginia us-east4	$5.658	$3.37	$3.73	$2.547
Columbus us-east5	$5.658	$1.461	$3.73	$2.371
Netherlands europe-west4	$5.941	$0.8279	$3.917	$2.675
Las Vegas us-west4	$6.373	$2.777	$4.201	$2.869
Frankfurt europe-west3	$6.677	$2.718	$4.401	$3.005
Tokyo asia-northeast1	$7.266	$3.407	$4.79	$3.271

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	96
Architecture	arm64
Processor	Google Axion

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	768

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 50 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	Network disks only
Max persistent disks	128

Instance details	Value
Instance type	c4a-highmem-96-metal
Family	c4a
Category	General purpose

Other	Value
Series	C4A
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Other c4a sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
c4a-highcpu-1	1	2	$0.0379
c4a-standard-1	1	4	$0.0449
c4a-highmem-1	1	8	$0.0589
c4a-highcpu-2	2	4	$0.0758
c4a-standard-2	2	8	$0.0898
c4a-highmem-2	2	16	$0.1179
c4a-highcpu-4	4	8	$0.1515
c4a-standard-4	4	16	$0.1796
c4a-standard-4-lssd	4	16	$0.2412
c4a-highmem-4	4	32	$0.2358
c4a-highmem-4-lssd	4	32	$0.2974
c4a-highcpu-8	8	16	$0.303
c4a-standard-8	8	32	$0.3592
c4a-standard-8-lssd	8	32	$0.4825
c4a-highmem-8	8	64	$0.4715
c4a-highmem-8-lssd	8	64	$0.5948
c4a-highcpu-16	16	32	$0.6061
c4a-standard-16	16	64	$0.7184
c4a-standard-16-lssd	16	64	$0.965
c4a-highmem-16	16	128	$0.943
c4a-highmem-16-lssd	16	128	$1.19
c4a-highcpu-32	32	64	$1.212
c4a-standard-32	32	128	$1.437
c4a-standard-32-lssd	32	128	$1.807
c4a-highmem-32	32	256	$1.886
c4a-highmem-32-lssd	32	256	$2.256
c4a-highcpu-48	48	96	$1.818
c4a-standard-48	48	192	$2.155
c4a-standard-48-lssd	48	192	$2.772
c4a-highmem-48	48	384	$2.829
c4a-highmem-48-lssd	48	384	$3.446
c4a-highcpu-64	64	128	$2.424
c4a-standard-64	64	256	$2.874
c4a-standard-64-lssd	64	256	$3.737
c4a-highmem-64	64	512	$3.772
c4a-highmem-64-lssd	64	512	$4.635
c4a-highcpu-72	72	144	$2.727
c4a-standard-72	72	288	$3.233
c4a-standard-72-lssd	72	288	$4.219
c4a-highmem-72	72	576	$4.244
c4a-highmem-72-lssd	72	576	$5.23
c4a-highmem-96-metal	96	768	$5.658

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