EC2 pricing · GPU / AI
g5.xlarge price in eu-central-1 (Frankfurt): per hour & per month
Updated 2026-10-19
$25,000 in credits runs one g5.xlarge in EU (Frankfurt) for about 27 months (credits usually expire in 12 to 24).
g5.xlarge (4 vCPU, 16 GiB, AMD EPYC 7R32) costs $1.26 per hour on demand in EU (Frankfurt), or $918 for a 730-hour month on Linux.
Entry-level GPU inference for LLMs/vision models, Stable Diffusion, fine-tuning small models and GPU dev environments. Single NVIDIA A10G (24 GB) GPU.
- On demand
- $1.26/h
- Monthly (730h)
- $918
- Specs
- 4 vCPU, 16 GiB, AMD EPYC 7R32
Is g5.xlarge right for you?
What 16 GiB of RAM runs
- ✓ Production API with steady traffic
- ✓ Self-hosted Postgres or Redis
- ✓ Several containers on one host
- ✕ Tiny side projects (you'll overpay)
- ✕ GPU-bound AI workloads
GPU workloads
Built for model inference, fine-tuning small models and video. Check GPU quota before launch: new accounts often start at 0 GPU vCPUs and must request an increase. Turn it off when idle, it burns credits fastest.
x86 compatibility
AMD EPYC 7R32 runs any x86 software unchanged. If your stack supports Arm, the Graviton version is usually around 20% cheaper.
About EU (Frankfurt)
Popular for German and Central European data residency. Slightly pricier than Ireland.
Moving data between availability zones costs about $0.01/GB each way.
The real bill for a small production setup
The server is rarely the biggest line. A typical setup behind a load balancer in a private network:
About per month$983
Load balancer: $0.027/h plus about $0.40/month in usage for 1 million requests. NAT gateway: $0.052/h plus $0.052/GB processed. Moving data between availability zones adds $0.01/GB each way. Skip the NAT gateway with public subnets or VPC endpoints to save $38/month. Prices for EU (Frankfurt) from the AWS Price List API (2026-10-19). Both are covered by AWS credits.
Credits expire before you can use them all
$25,000 would run one g5.xlarge for about 2.3 years, but credits usually expire in 12 to 24 months. Spend the surplus on a managed database, staging environments or load testing instead of leaving it unused.
Credits pay on-demand and Spot usage, not upfront Savings Plan or Reserved Instance commitments. Buy commitments only once credits run low.
Database, disk and traffic
Managed database vs running it yourself
A managed PostgreSQL database (RDS db.t4g.medium, single zone, 20 GB) costs about $56.76/month in EU (Frankfurt).
Running Postgres yourself on a second g5.xlarge costs about $920/month, but you handle backups, upgrades and failover.
Both are paid by AWS credits. Upfront fees for reserved databases are not.
Disk speed limits
Steady disk speed: 700 Mbps and 3,000 IOPS.
Short bursts up to 3,500 Mbps and 15,000 IOPS, for about 30 minutes a day, then it drops back.
A busy database or heavy file processing may hit this limit before CPU or memory.
Sending 1 TB a month to users
Straight from the server: about $81.00/month ($0.09/GB after the first 100 GB).
Through CloudFront: $0. Server-to-CloudFront traffic is free and the first 1 TB out each month is free (then $0.085/GB for Europe edges).
RDS, CloudFront and transfer prices from the AWS Price List API; VPS prices from Hetzner and DigitalOcean, excluding VAT (2026-10-19).
Full monthly bill calculator
Instances rarely run alone. Add disk, a public IP and traffic to see the real bill and how long credits last.
Compute ($1.258/h)$918
gp3 storage ($0.0952/GB)$3
Public IPv4 ($0.0050/h)$4
Data out (after 100 GB free)$0
Monthly total$925
Credits last
$1,0001.1 mo
$5,0005.4 mo
$25,00027 mo
$100,00099+ mo
Credits usually expire in 12 to 24 months, so long runways are capped by expiry.
On demand vs Savings Plans, Reserved, Spot and Windows
| Pricing | Per hour | Per month | Saving | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On demand | $1.258 | $918 | 0% | Credits apply |
| Savings Plan, 1 year | $0.9907 | $723 | 21% | No upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Savings Plan, 3-yr | $0.6793 | $496 | 46% | Compute Savings Plan, no upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Reserved Instance, 3-yr | $0.5435 | $397 | 57% | Standard RI, no upfront; credits can't buy the commitment |
| Spot (average) | $0.6877 | $502 | 45% | Can be interrupted; credits apply |
| Windows on demand | $1.442 | $1,053 | +15% vs Linux | Includes the Windows licence; credits apply |
g5.xlarge in other regions
| Region | Per hour | Per month | vs here | $25k lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US East (N. Virginia)us-east-1 | $1.006 | $734 | -20% | 34 mo |
| US East (Ohio)us-east-2 | $1.006 | $734 | -20% | 34 mo |
| US West (Oregon)us-west-2 | $1.006 | $734 | -20% | 34 mo |
| EU (Stockholm)eu-north-1 | $1.067 | $779 | -15% | 32 mo |
| Canada (Central)ca-central-1 | $1.117 | $815 | -11% | 31 mo |
| EU (Ireland)eu-west-1 | $1.123 | $820 | -11% | 30 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai)ap-south-1 | $1.208 | $882 | -4% | 28 mo |
| EU (Frankfurt)eu-central-1 | $1.258 | $918 | — | 27 mo |
| EU (London)eu-west-2 | $1.277 | $932 | +2% | 27 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney)ap-southeast-2 | $1.308 | $955 | +4% | 26 mo |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1 | $1.459 | $1,065 | +16% | 23 mo |
| South America (Sao Paulo)sa-east-1 | $1.710 | $1,248 | +36% | 20 mo |
Right-size it
Linux, shared tenancy, from the AWS Price List API (2026-10-19). Network: Up to 10 Gbps. Taxes not included. AWS EC2 pricing
g5.xlarge in other regions
Alternatives in eu-central-1
- g6.xlarge · $1.01/h
- g5.2xlarge · $1.52/h
- g4dn.xlarge · 4 vCPU, 16 GiB · $0.658/h
- g4dn.2xlarge · 8 vCPU, 32 GiB · $0.94/h
- g6.xlarge · 4 vCPU, 16 GiB · $1.01/h
- g6.2xlarge · 8 vCPU, 32 GiB · $1.22/h
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Questions
How much does g5.xlarge cost per month in eu-central-1?
$918 on demand for Linux running all 730 hours, before storage, public IPv4 and data transfer.
Can AWS credits pay for g5.xlarge?
Yes. Activate credits cover on-demand EC2 usage. They don't cover upfront Reserved Instances or Savings Plan commitments.
Is a Savings Plan worth it for g5.xlarge?
A 1-year Savings Plan brings it to $0.9907/h and 3 years to $0.6793/h. While credits last, on demand is usually better because credits can't buy the commitment.
Prices and credit amounts are estimates and may change. Check AWS for current terms.
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