c4vsc4a

Size for size, c4a is on average 9% cheaper than c4 on demand in Iowa, across 28 shared sizes. Same size and generation on a different processor.

At a glance	c4	c4a
Sizes here	57	42
From	$0.0851/hr	$0.0379/hr
vCPUs	2 to 288	1 to 96
Memory	4 to 2232 GiB	2 to 768 GiB
Architecture	x86_64	arm64
Category	General purpose	General purpose, Arm

On-demand prices by size in Iowa

USD per hour for Linux. Pick a size to compare the two types.

Size	c4	c4a	c4a vs c4
highcpu-2	c4-highcpu-2 $0.0851	c4a-highcpu-2 $0.0758	▼ 11%
standard-2	c4-standard-2 $0.0969	c4a-standard-2 $0.0898	▼ 7%
highmem-2	c4-highmem-2 $0.1284	c4a-highmem-2 $0.1179	▼ 8%
highcpu-4	c4-highcpu-4 $0.1701	c4a-highcpu-4 $0.1515	▼ 11%
standard-4	c4-standard-4 $0.1977	c4a-standard-4 $0.1796	▼ 9%
standard-4-lssd	c4-standard-4-lssd $0.2799	c4a-standard-4-lssd $0.2412	▼ 14%
highmem-4	c4-highmem-4 $0.2607	c4a-highmem-4 $0.2358	▼ 10%
highmem-4-lssd	c4-highmem-4-lssd $0.3429	c4a-highmem-4-lssd $0.2974	▼ 13%
highcpu-8	c4-highcpu-8 $0.3402	c4a-highcpu-8 $0.303	▼ 11%
standard-8	c4-standard-8 $0.3953	c4a-standard-8 $0.3592	▼ 9%
standard-8-lssd	c4-standard-8-lssd $0.4775	c4a-standard-8-lssd $0.4825	▲ 1%
highmem-8	c4-highmem-8 $0.5214	c4a-highmem-8 $0.4715	▼ 10%
highmem-8-lssd	c4-highmem-8-lssd $0.6035	c4a-highmem-8-lssd $0.5948	▼ 1%
highcpu-16	c4-highcpu-16 $0.6804	c4a-highcpu-16 $0.6061	▼ 11%
standard-16	c4-standard-16 $0.7907	c4a-standard-16 $0.7184	▼ 9%
standard-16-lssd	c4-standard-16-lssd $0.9551	c4a-standard-16-lssd $0.965	▲ 1%
highmem-16	c4-highmem-16 $1.043	c4a-highmem-16 $0.943	▼ 10%
highmem-16-lssd	c4-highmem-16-lssd $1.207	c4a-highmem-16-lssd $1.19	▼ 1%
highcpu-32	c4-highcpu-32 $1.361	c4a-highcpu-32 $1.212	▼ 11%
standard-32	c4-standard-32 $1.581	c4a-standard-32 $1.437	▼ 9%
standard-32-lssd	c4-standard-32-lssd $1.992	c4a-standard-32-lssd $1.807	▼ 9%
highmem-32	c4-highmem-32 $2.085	c4a-highmem-32 $1.886	▼ 10%
highmem-32-lssd	c4-highmem-32-lssd $2.496	c4a-highmem-32-lssd $2.256	▼ 10%
highcpu-48	c4-highcpu-48 $2.041	c4a-highcpu-48 $1.818	▼ 11%
standard-48	c4-standard-48 $2.372	c4a-standard-48 $2.155	▼ 9%
standard-48-lssd	c4-standard-48-lssd $3.03	c4a-standard-48-lssd $2.772	▼ 9%
highmem-48	c4-highmem-48 $3.128	c4a-highmem-48 $2.829	▼ 10%
highmem-48-lssd	c4-highmem-48-lssd $3.786	c4a-highmem-48-lssd $3.446	▼ 9%

Key differences

The biggest lead each family has.

Where c4 leads

Sizes57 sizes here vs 42

15 more

Largest size288 vCPUs vs 96

Bigger

Where c4a leads

On-demand priceCheaper in 26 of 28 shared sizes

9% cheaper

Spot priceLower in 28 of 28 shared sizes

Cheaper spot

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