Qubole Billing Guide

Qubole Google Cloud Unit (QGCU) on Google Cloud Platform

Qubole rents resources from GCP on your behalf as a GCP customer, and runs queries and jobs against data in your GCP storage account. You are responsible for the raw compute, network, and storage costs incurred in your GCP account; you pay these costs directly to GCP. Qubole charges a premium for its service, based on usage.

The Qubole Google Cloud Unit (QGCU) is defined to be a percentage of the cost of one instance of the given instance type for one hour of use. The following table shows the multiplier used for each instance type:

GCE instance type	Equivalent QGCU
n1-standard-1	0.14
n1-standard-2	0.27
n1-standard-4	0.54
n1-standard-8	1.09
n1-standard-16	2.17
n1-standard-32	4.34
n1-standard-64	8.69
n1-highmem-2	0.34
n1-highmem-4	0.68
n1-highmem-8	1.35
n1-highmem-16	2.71
n1-highmem-32	5.41
n1-highmem-64	10.83
n1-highcpu-2	0.20
n1-highcpu-4	0.41
n1-highcpu-8	0.81
n1-highcpu-16	1.62
n1-highcpu-32	3.24
n1-highcpu-64	6.48
n2-standard-2	0.28
n2-standard-4	0.55
n2-standard-8	1.11
n2-standard-16	2.22
n2-standard-32	4.44
n2-standard-48	6.66
n2-standard-64	8.88
n2-standard-80	11.10
n2-highmem-2	0.37
n2-highmem-4	0.75
n2-highmem-8	1.50
n2-highmem-16	2.99
n2-highmem-32	5.99
n2-highmem-48	8.98
n2-highmem-64	11.98
n2-highmem-80	14.97
n2-highcpu-2	0.20
n2-highcpu-4	0.41
n2-highcpu-8	0.82
n2-highcpu-16	1.64
n2-highcpu-32	3.28
n2-highcpu-48	4.92
n2-highcpu-64	6.56
n2-highcpu-80	8.19
c2-standard-4	0.60
c2-standard-8	1.19
c2-standard-16	2.39
c2-standard-30	4.47
c2-standard-60	8.95
m1-ultramem-40	18.01
m1-ultramem-80	36.02
m1-ultramem-160	72.04
m1-megamem-96	30.50
m2-ultramem-208	120.53
m2-ultramem-416	241.06