ARM64 Cloud Instances — Price Comparison
Top 20 most cost-effective ARM64 instances across AWS (Graviton), Azure (Ampere Altra), Google Cloud (Tau T2A), and Oracle Cloud (Ampere A1), sorted by price per vCPU/hr.
| # | Provider | Instance | vCPU | RAM (GiB) | On-Demand/hr | $/vCPU/hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS | t4g.nano | 2 | 0.5 | $0.0042/hr | $0.00210 |
| 2 | AWS | t4g.micro | 2 | 1 | $0.0084/hr | $0.00420 |
| 3 | AWS | t4g.small | 2 | 2 | $0.0168/hr | $0.00840 |
| 4 | AWS | t4g.medium | 2 | 4 | $0.0336/hr | $0.01680 |
| 5 | AWS | t4g.micro | 2 | 1 | $0.0372/hr | $0.01860 |
| 6 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.1OCPU.6GB | 1 | 6 | $0.0190/hr | $0.01900 |
| 7 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.2OCPU.12GB | 2 | 12 | $0.0380/hr | $0.01900 |
| 8 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.4OCPU.24GB | 4 | 24 | $0.0760/hr | $0.01900 |
| 9 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.8OCPU.48GB | 8 | 48 | $0.1520/hr | $0.01900 |
| 10 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.16OCPU.96GB | 16 | 96 | $0.3040/hr | $0.01900 |
| 11 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.32OCPU.192GB | 32 | 192 | $0.6080/hr | $0.01900 |
| 12 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.80OCPU.512GB | 80 | 512 | $1.5680/hr | $0.01960 |
| 13 | OCI | VM.Standard.A1.Flex.160OCPU.1024GB | 160 | 1024 | $3.1360/hr | $0.01960 |
| 14 | AWS | t4g.small | 2 | 2 | $0.0456/hr | $0.02280 |
| 15 | Azure | Standard_D11_v2_Promo | 11 | 154 | $0.2640/hr | $0.02400 |
| 16 | Azure | Standard_DS11_v2_Promo | 11 | 154 | $0.2640/hr | $0.02400 |
| 17 | AWS | a1.metal | 16 | 32 | $0.4080/hr | $0.02550 |
| 18 | AWS | a1.medium | 1 | 2 | $0.0255/hr | $0.02550 |
| 19 | AWS | a1.4xlarge | 16 | 32 | $0.4080/hr | $0.02550 |
| 20 | AWS | a1.large | 2 | 4 | $0.0510/hr | $0.02550 |