Cheapest 2 vCPU, 4 GB VM

AWS, Azure and GCP list prices for a Linux VM with at least 2 vCPUs and 4 GB, in us-east-1, eastus and us-central1. The smallest fit from each family, 730 hours a month, no discounts applied except the commitment columns.

Other regions: Europe · Asia Pacific. Nearby sizes: 1 vCPU / 2 GB · 4 vCPU / 8 GB.

Cheapest per cloud

Cloud	On-demand /mo	1-year /mo	3-year /mo
AWS us-east-1	$49.64 c6g.large	$36.21 c6g.large	$23.94 c6g.large
Azure eastus	$45.26 Standard_D2pls_v6	$26.67 Standard_D2pls_v6	$17.19 Standard_D2pls_v6
GCP us-central1	$42.40 e2-custom-2-4096	$30.82 e2-standard-2	$24.89 c4a-highcpu-2

Commitments: AWS Compute Savings Plan, Azure reservation, GCP committed use discount — no upfront where there is a choice.

AWS · us-east-1 · on-demand, Linux

Type	vCPU	GB	Arch	/hr	/mo
c6g.large	2.0	4	arm64	$0.0680	$49.64
c7g.large	2.0	4	arm64	$0.0725	$52.92
c6a.large	2.0	4	x86_64	$0.0765	$55.84
c6gd.large	2.0	4	arm64	$0.0768	$56.06
m6g.large	2.0	8	arm64	$0.0770	$56.21

Azure · eastus · on-demand, Linux

Type	vCPU	GB	Arch	/hr	/mo
Standard_D2pls_v6	2	4	arm64	$0.0620	$45.26
Standard_D2pls_v5	2	4	arm64	$0.0680	$49.64
Standard_D2ps_v6	2	8	arm64	$0.0702	$51.25
Standard_D2plds_v5	2	4	arm64	$0.0768	$56.06
Standard_D2ps_v5	2	8	arm64	$0.0770	$56.21

GCP · us-central1 · on-demand, Linux

Type	vCPU	GB	Arch	/hr	/mo
e2-custom-2-4096	2	4	x86_64	$0.0581	$42.40
e2-standard-2	2	8	x86_64	$0.0670	$48.92
n2d-custom-2-4096	2	4	x86_64	$0.0732	$53.46
c2d-highcpu-2	2	4	x86_64	$0.0750	$54.72
c4a-highcpu-2	2	4	arm64	$0.0758	$55.30

Run it with the API

This page is one /api/v1/compare call. Change the requirements, regions or category and run your own:

curl -s https://api.cloudcostdata.com/api/v1/compare \
  -H "X-API-Key: $CCD_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"category": "vm", "regions": {"aws": "us-east-1", "azure": "eastus", "gcp": "us-central1"},
       "requirements": {"vcpus": 2, "memory_gib": 4}, "limit": 5}'

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