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Google Cloud TPU

Hardware

by Alphabet (Google)

Google's custom AI accelerator chips, rented by the chip-hour on Google Cloud for training and serving machine learning models.

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Billed per chip-hour, e.g. TPU v5e on-demand from $1.20/chip-hour in us-central1; one- and three-year committed-use discounts available.

What it does

• AI compute hardware
• Accelerator silicon
• Model training
• Model inference
• GPU cloud

How it compares

• Intel Gaudi AI Accelerator

  ...hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft...

  Regulatory filing · 18 Sep 2026

Sources

Pricing

Pricing page · 1 Sep 2026

Description

Official documentation · 1 Sep 2026

What it does

Official documentation · 1 Sep 2026

Sold within

Pricing page · 6 Sep 2026

Google Cloud publishes this service's own rate card on its own pricing page, read 2026-09-06 — its own meter, its own line on the bill.

Name

Official documentation · 1 Sep 2026

URL

Official documentation · 1 Sep 2026

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