Burstable GCP Compute Engine machine types

GCP Compute Engine has 3 burstable machine types in Iowa, across 1 family. The cheapest is e2-micro at $0.0084 per hour on demand (2 vCPUs, 1 GiB).

Prices in Iowa, cheapest first

Region

Type	Family	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr	Spot /hr	1-yr committed use /hr
e2-micro	e2	2	1	$0.0084	$0.005	–
e2-small	e2	2	2	$0.0168	$0.0101	–
e2-medium	e2	2	4	$0.0335	$0.0201	–

Families

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Prices in USD per hour for Linux; reserved prices are 1 year, no upfront. Updated 2026-11-12 from the Google Cloud Billing Catalog API. Compare all GCP Compute Engine machine types.