Compute Engine vs Virtual Machines

Head-to-head comparison · Compute

At a glance

Virtual Machines has the lower starting price — $0.004 per hour vs $0.00838 per hour.

Compute Engine provides infrastructure-as-a-service for deploying virtual machines on Google Cloud. It handles core workloads like web servers, databases, and AI tasks through preset or custom machine types. The platform…

CATEGORY Compute

PRICING Pay-as-you-go

FREE TIER None

TIER pay-as-you-go

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Azure Virtual Machines delivers on-demand compute capacity for both Linux and Windows workloads. You spin up instances to handle scalable processing tasks, paying strictly for the hours you run them. It’s standard infras…

CATEGORY Compute

PRICING Pay-as-you-go

FREE TIER None

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Pricing Tiers

COMPUTE ENGINE

Committed 1yr $0.0844/hour

Committed 1yr $0.1224/hour

Committed 1yr $0.1322/hour

Committed 1yr $0.1352/hour

Committed 3yr $0.0603/hour

Committed 3yr $0.0874/hour

Committed 3yr $0.0945/hour

Committed 3yr $0.0966/hour

VIRTUAL MACHINES

Free Tier Free/month

On-Demand $0.0104/hour

On-Demand $0.0416/hour

On-Demand $0.1660/hour

On-Demand $0.1250/hour

On-Demand $1.73/hour

On-Demand $0.2180/hour

On-Demand $0.1480/hour