n4a-highmem-1

n4a-highmem-1 is a GCP Compute Engine machine type with 1 vCPU, 8 GiB memory (Google Axion). In Iowa it costs $0.0505 per hour on demand ($36.87 per month) for Linux; a 1-year committed use discount costs $0.0334 per hour, 34% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0182 per hour. It is sold in 9 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	$0.0505	$0.0182	$0.0334	$0.0227
South Carolina us-east1	$0.0505	$0.0191	$0.0334	$0.0227
Northern Virginia us-east4	$0.0505	$0.0282	$0.0334	$0.0227
Oregon us-west1	$0.0505	$0.0191	$0.0334	$0.0227
Netherlands europe-west4	$0.0531	$0.0283	$0.035	$0.0239
Belgium europe-west1	$0.0556	$0.0334	$0.0367	$0.025
London europe-west2	$0.0576	$0.0338	$0.038	$0.0259
Frankfurt europe-west3	$0.0596	$0.0349	$0.0394	$0.0268
Singapore asia-southeast1	$0.0623	$0.0374	$0.0412	$0.0281

Committed use discounts Spot prices by region

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	1
Architecture	arm64
Processor	Google Axion

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	8

Networking	Value
Network	Up to 10 Gbps

Storage	Value
Storage	Network disks only
Max persistent disks	16

Instance details	Value
Instance type	n4a-highmem-1
Family	n4a
Category	General purpose

Other	Value
Series	N4A
Specs source	Compute Engine API

Other n4a sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
n4a-highcpu-1	1	2	$0.0325
n4a-standard-1	1	4	$0.0385
n4a-highmem-1	1	8	$0.0505
n4a-highcpu-2	2	4	$0.065
n4a-standard-2	2	8	$0.077
n4a-highmem-2	2	16	$0.1011
n4a-highcpu-4	4	8	$0.1299
n4a-standard-4	4	16	$0.154
n4a-highmem-4	4	32	$0.2022
n4a-highcpu-8	8	16	$0.2598
n4a-standard-8	8	32	$0.308
n4a-highmem-8	8	64	$0.4043
n4a-highcpu-16	16	32	$0.5197
n4a-standard-16	16	64	$0.616
n4a-highmem-16	16	128	$0.8086
n4a-highcpu-32	32	64	$1.039
n4a-standard-32	32	128	$1.232
n4a-highmem-32	32	256	$1.617
n4a-highcpu-48	48	96	$1.559
n4a-standard-48	48	192	$1.848
n4a-highmem-48	48	384	$2.426
n4a-highcpu-64	64	128	$2.079
n4a-standard-64	64	256	$2.464
n4a-highmem-64	64	512	$3.235

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