---
title: "Retrieve Instance Type details"
method: GET
path: "/instance-type/{id}"
tags: ["instance-type"]
---

# Retrieve Instance Type details

`GET /instance-type/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api-ch-gva-2.exoscale.com/v2`
- URL: `https://api-ch-gva-2.exoscale.com/v2/instance-type/{id}`
- Auth: none declared
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/exoscale/apis/exoscale-api/docs/instance-type/:id/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

200

- InstanceType: Compute instance type
  - `id` string, uuid: Instance type ID
  - `size` 'large' | 'huge' | 'jumbo' | 'medium' | 'mega' | 'small' | 'extra-large' | 'titan48c' | 'titan' | 'micro' | 'colossus' | 'tiny': Instance type size
  - `family` 'gpu3' | 'gpua30' | 'gpu3080ti' | 'gpu2' | 'gpu' | 'memory' | 'gpua5000' | 'gpub300' | 'gpurtx6000pro' | 'storage' | 'standard' | 'colossus' | 'cpu': Instance type family
  - `cpus` integer: CPU count
  - `gpus` integer: GPU count
  - `authorized` boolean: Requires authorization or publicly available
  - `memory` integer: Available memory
  - `zones` ZoneName[]: Instance Type available zones

## Changes

- **2026-11-06** `63da6f74c845`: 1 warning
  - added the new `gpub300` enum value to the `family` response property for the response status `200`
- **2026-03-16** `e05707a7b346`: 1 warning
  - added the new `gpurtx6000pro` enum value to the `family` response property for the response status `200`
- **2025-11-14** `352cae63dff6`: 1 warning
  - added the new `titan48c` enum value to the `size` response property for the response status `200`
- **2025-08-10** `814bf1ccd925`: 1 warning
  - added the new `hr-zag-1` enum value to the `zones/items/` response property for the response status `200`
- **2025-05-22** `37a05010e8b4`: 1 warning
  - added the new `gpua30` enum value to the `family` response property for the response status `200`

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/exoscale/apis/exoscale-api/changes/instance-type/:id/get.md)

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