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Google Cloud TPU v5e: specs, VRAM and rental prices
Google Cloud TPU v5e: 16 GB of chip memory (HBM), rented from $1.20 per chip-hour on demand (Google Cloud). Specs from Google, prices as of Oct 29, 2026.
TPU v5e is a Google Cloud tensor processing unit announced as generally available on Aug 29, 2023. Each chip has 16 GB of HBM and one TensorCore. Google Cloud prices it per chip-hour, which is the unit this page uses.
Prices were last checked Oct 29, 2026. A listing not re-checked for 7 days is greyed and left out of every lowest-price figure; after 14 days it is removed from the page.
Google Cloud TPU v5e specifications
| Specification | TPU v5e | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Google TPU v5e, 1 TensorCore per chip | cloud.google.com |
| GPU memory | 16 GB | cloud.google.com |
| Memory type | HBM | cloud.google.com |
| Memory bandwidth | 800 GiBps | cloud.google.com |
| FP16 / BF16 peak | 197 TFLOPs | cloud.google.com |
| FP8 peak | Not published | cloud.google.com |
| Int8 peak | 393 TOPs | cloud.google.com |
| Chip-to-chip interconnect | 400 GBps bidirectional | cloud.google.com |
| Typical board power | Not published | cloud.google.com |
Google’s TPU documentation gives the figures per chip. It prints peak compute without saying whether it is dense or with sparsity, and publishes no chip power rating or HBM generation. Google prints v5e bandwidth in GiB/s, so it is not compared numerically with GB/s figures. Not published on the pages cited here: FP8 throughput; Chip power; HBM generation.
Sources: Google Cloud TPU v5e documentation · Cloud TPU v5e announcement (Aug 29, 2023). Every figure above is copied from these Google pages; nothing is estimated.
TPU v5e rental prices by provider
Lowest listed price by pricing type
| Pricing | $ per chip-hour | Provider | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $1.20 | Google Cloud | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Reserved | $0.54 | Google Cloud, 3 years | Oct 29, 2026 |
On-demand price by provider
Each provider’s lowest fresh on-demand listing, $ per chip-hour.
Every listed TPU v5e price
| Provider | Configuration | Pricing | $ per chip-hour | Region | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
Reserved, 3 years | $0.54 Listed $0.54 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-central1, 3-year commitment) |
us-central1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
Reserved, 1 year | $0.84 Listed $0.84 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-central1, 1-year commitment) |
us-central1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.20 Listed $1.20 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-central1, On Demand) |
us-central1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.20 Listed $1.20 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-east5, On Demand) |
us-east5 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.20 Listed $1.20 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-west1, On Demand) |
us-west1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.20 Listed $1.20 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-west4, On Demand) |
us-west4 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.32 Listed $1.32132 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, europe-west1, On Demand) |
europe-west1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.42 Listed $1.416 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, us-south1, On Demand) |
us-south1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.56 Listed $1.56 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, asia-southeast1, On Demand) |
asia-southeast1 | cloud.google.com | |
| Google Cloud | 16 GB each Cloud TPU chip |
On-demand | $1.56 Listed $1.56 per chip-hour (TPU v5e, europe-west4, On Demand) |
europe-west4 | cloud.google.com |
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Price history
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How these prices are collected
- What counts
- Only prices a provider publishes on a public pricing page or in its public price list, opened by the Census on the day shown. A marketplace is listed under the same rule as every other provider: it must publish per-GPU-hour prices publicly, with no login, and its rows are shown with the type Marketplace. Quotes and “contact sales” rows are not listed, and neither are purchase prices.
- $ per GPU-hour
- The listed price per GPU-hour. Where a provider lists a price per instance, the Census divides it by the GPUs in that instance and shows the original figure under it. Nothing else is converted or estimated. Google TPUs and AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips are priced per chip-hour on the same terms, with “chip” in place of “GPU”.
- Pricing types
- On-demand, spot (including tiers a provider calls preemptible or low-priority), reserved with the term the provider states, and marketplace. Reserved rows without a stated term are not listed. A marketplace row is the lowest per-GPU-hour price its public page shows for that GPU, which comes from third-party hosts and changes often. Marketplace rows are a separate type: they appear in the table, filters, downloads and feeds, but never in the “lowest on-demand” or “lowest spot” figures.
- Variants
- SXM, PCIe, NVL and similar versions are kept separate when the provider names them. A provider that does not name the variant is shown without one.
- Freshness
- Every listing carries the date it was last confirmed, and the daily run re-opens each one. If a listing goes 7 days without a re-check it stays on the page greyed, labelled with the date it was last confirmed, and drops out of the “lowest” figures and the calculator’s default results. At 14 days without a re-check it is taken off the site; the daily history still holds it.
- History
- Each daily run saves a snapshot, so the model pages can chart the lowest listed on-demand price over time and the change log can show what moved. History began Oct 15, 2026.
- Differences between providers
- Listed prices are not like for like: regions, minimum instance sizes, networking, storage, commitments and availability differ and are not priced here. Check the provider before relying on a figure.
Providers checked but not listed
- Vast.ai: Its pricing page loads live "from" prices from a public JSON file whose terms allow display and citation with attribution but require a data license for bulk collection, redistribution or use in any index, benchmark or derivative product. The Census republishes prices as open data, so it does not list Vast.ai without that license.
- Voltage Park: Its pricing pages say "Contact for pricing" for every GPU; one homepage line says "Starting at $1.99/hr" without a GPU model or unit.
TPU v5e: common questions
How much VRAM does the TPU v5e have?
Google lists 16 GB of GPU memory for the Google Cloud TPU v5e, which is HBM, with memory bandwidth of 800 GiBps. The specification table on this page shows each figure with the page it came from.
How much does it cost to rent a TPU v5e per hour?
The lowest listed on-demand price among listings checked in the last 7 days is $1.20 per chip-hour at Google Cloud, checked Oct 29, 2026. 10 fresh listings from 1 providers are shown in the table above, including spot, reserved and marketplace prices.
Which providers list TPU v5e prices?
Google Cloud.
Which architecture is the TPU v5e built on, and when was it announced?
The Google Cloud TPU v5e uses the Google TPU v5e architecture and was announced or launched in 2023, according to the Google page cited in the specifications.
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