Google Cloud A3 pricing

H100 instances on Compute Engine with fast interconnect, priced in line with the other hyperscalers and well above the specialists.

List prices checked

By Google · GPU cloud

Rate card

What Google charges, by billing axis.

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Source: Google pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Google Cloud A3 billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$5,095/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $6.98/hr (H100 80GB)$5,095

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$10,191/mo

  • 1,460 GPU-hours at $6.98/hr (H100 80GB)$10,191

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$5,095/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $6.98/hr (H100 80GB)$5,095

Google Cloud A3 vs the alternatives

The closest GPU cloud providers on price, with the difference on gpu cloud's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs Google Cloud A3Compare
Azure ND H100 v5$6.98—Head to head
AWS EC2 P5$7.571.1× dearerHead to head
Replicate H100$5.041.4× cheaperHead to head
Modal H100$3.951.8× cheaperHead to head
Lambda H100$2.492.8× cheaperHead to head
CoreWeave H100$2.313× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Google Cloud A3 cost in 2026?
Google Cloud A3 charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per Google's published pricing page. There is no free tier. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Google Cloud A3 have a free tier?
No. Google Cloud A3 bills from the first unit of usage. Several competitors in the same category do publish a free allowance — the rankings linked below list them.
Are these Google Cloud A3 prices current?
They were checked against Google's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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