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One workload, every cloud

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Add the pieces of a workload, say how much of each you use in a month, and see what the whole thing costs on each cloud side by side — not one at a time. Every line is priced on a unit that means the same to each of them, and every figure links the SKUs it was built from.
Why this can be totalled across vendors at all
Because nothing is added up until it has been normalised. Google prices a machine's cores and its memory separately and AWS prices the whole instance, so a 4 vCPU · 16 GB line is composed from whatever each vendor actually sells and expressed as one rate per hour. Where both already publish the same unit — a gigabyte-month of object storage — the line is direct. Line items exist only where such a unit genuinely exists, which is why the picker offers seven things and not the whole catalogue. For anything outside them, the cost impact page prices your own meters without making a cross-vendor claim.
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Applies to every line — a committed rate is never totalled against an on-demand one.

Azure is not in this estimate. Its prices are in the archive and on every other page of this site, but no line item here has an Azure side yet: a comparison needs each cloud's meters matched to the same stated configuration, and that work is not finished for this one. Absent from the table, not priced at zero.

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Quantities are per month, in each line's own unit — the South America region group on spot pricing

Which cloud is cheaper for a machine of this size?

hours a month

Leave blank for one running all month (730 h).

Monthly, at list

Google Cloudis cheaper for this workload

$41.57 a month against $502 on AWS — 91.7% less, over the 1 line every cloud priced.

South America · Spot · list prices, USD · per calendar month

  • Google CloudCheapest$41.57/month
  • AWS$502/month

The estimate, line by line

What each piece costs on each cloud, per month

Compare one line in depth →
Each line of the estimate with its monthly cost on every cloud, in South America on spot pricing.
LineQuantityGoogle CloudAWSRemove
Virtual machine4 vCPU · 16 GB1,460hours$41.57$0.0285 per hourunchanged –C3 series$502$0.3440 per hourunchanged –
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This whole estimate lives in the URL — copy the address bar to share it, and nothing about it is stored on our side.

Totals compare clouds on the lines all of them publish a qualifying configuration for.

These are list prices

Published rates, exactly as each cloud advertises them. Enterprise agreements, committed-spend discounts, credits and free tiers are negotiated privately and appear in no public catalogue, so a real invoice will differ — usually downward, and by different amounts on different clouds.

What is not in the total

Only the lines you added. Support plans, inter-zone traffic, load balancers, IP addresses, snapshots and the long tail of small meters a real bill carries are not inferred on your behalf — a total that quietly invented line items would be a worse number than one that is honestly incomplete.

It changes when they reprice

This is priced from today's snapshot. The archive knows what each of these lines cost before, and will email you the day one of them moves — which is the difference between an estimate and a forecast.