Cheapest 4 vCPU, 32 GB VM

AWS, Azure and GCP list prices for a Linux VM with at least 4 vCPUs and 32 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: 2 vCPU / 16 GB · 8 vCPU / 64 GB.

Cheapest per cloud

Cloud	On-demand /mo	1-year /mo	3-year /mo
AWS us-east-1	$147.17 r6g.xlarge	$106.73 r6g.xlarge	$76.94 r6g.xlarge
Azure eastus	$134.32 Standard_E4ps_v6	$79.42 Standard_E4ps_v6	$51.14 Standard_E4ps_v6
GCP us-central1	$131.98 e2-highmem-4	$83.15 e2-highmem-4	$77.47 c4a-highmem-4

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
r6g.xlarge	4.0	32	arm64	$0.2016	$147.17
r7g.xlarge	4.0	32	arm64	$0.2142	$156.37
r5a.xlarge	4.0	32	x86_64	$0.2260	$164.98
r6a.xlarge	4.0	32	x86_64	$0.2268	$165.56
r6gd.xlarge	4.0	32	arm64	$0.2304	$168.19

Azure · eastus · on-demand, Linux

Type	vCPU	GB	Arch	/hr	/mo
Standard_E4ps_v6	4	32	arm64	$0.1840	$134.32
Standard_E4ps_v5	4	32	arm64	$0.2020	$147.46
Standard_E4pds_v5	4	32	arm64	$0.2300	$167.90
Standard_E4pds_v6	4	32	arm64	$0.2340	$170.82
Standard_A4m_v2	4	32	x86_64	$0.2370	$173.01

GCP · us-central1 · on-demand, Linux

Type	vCPU	GB	Arch	/hr	/mo
e2-highmem-4	4	32	x86_64	$0.1808	$131.98
e2-custom-4-32768	4	32	x86_64	$0.1898	$138.58
n2d-highmem-4	4	32	x86_64	$0.2280	$166.41
c4a-highmem-4	4	32	arm64	$0.2358	$172.10
n4-highmem-4	4	32	x86_64	$0.2380	$173.77

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": 4, "memory_gib": 32}, "limit": 5}'

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