c4-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-standard-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 7 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 7 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0163 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
7 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,888
(All-cores)
1,820
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1762002
Name
c4-standard-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 7 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-27T00:57:32.567950

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0577 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0578 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.058 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.058 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.058 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0332 USD/h 0.1007 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0398 USD/h 0.1007 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0289 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0346 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0466 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0327 USD/h 0.1056 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0167 USD/h 0.1066 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0163 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0281 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0341 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0384 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0394 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0371 USD/h 0.1091 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0534 USD/h 0.1104 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0673 USD/h 0.1122 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0173 USD/h 0.1124 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0326 USD/h 0.1124 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0289 USD/h 0.1143 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.033 USD/h 0.1143 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0542 USD/h 0.1143 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0344 USD/h 0.1164 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0386 USD/h 0.1164 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0281 USD/h 0.1172 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0318 USD/h 0.1177 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0605 USD/h 0.1195 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0387 USD/h 0.1211 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0536 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0554 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0744 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0232 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.045 USD/h 0.1259 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0752 USD/h 0.1269 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0231 USD/h 0.1303 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0537 USD/h 0.1355 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0457 USD/h 0.1385 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0537 USD/h 0.1538 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0209 USD/h 0.155 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8581C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
48 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, monitor, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1
Scalability
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
7 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
7 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated dual-vCPU instance delivering strong single-threaded performance for lightweight workloads, constrained by entry-level memory bandwidth.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-standard-2 is an x86_64 general-purpose instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs from a 2.3 GHz Intel Xeon 8581C processor and 7.0 GB of system memory. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate strong single-core execution, highlighted by a Geekbench single-core score of 2081.0 and high single-threaded compression speeds. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are relatively weak, with uncached memory write speeds limited to 10.0 GB/sec. The CPU supports advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and Intel AMX, which assist with specialized integer and cryptographic tasks. This instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for lightweight, single-threaded workloads, basic text processing, and low-traffic web serving, but is not recommended for memory-intensive databases or parallelized computing tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.27Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 426,839 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.23 50.00% 50.00% -52.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,115,998 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.17 20.00% 20.00% -30.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 940 2,416 0.39 10.00% 10.00% -9.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,669 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.34 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,547 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,081

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,627

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,324
      Compression
      		 32,459
      Encryption
      		 1,880
      Extended Instructions
      		 2,240
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6,005
      Integer Maths
      		 8,395
      Physics
      		 426
      Prime Numbers
      		 19
      Single Threaded
      		 2,547
      String Sorting
      		 4,340

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 942
      Database Operations
      		 1,325
      Memory Latency
      		 67
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23,017
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7,876
      Memory Write
      		 7,404

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 658.73 653.09 0.99×
      bitops
      		 132,188 160,448 1.21×
      branch
      		 124,528 192,324 1.54×
      funccall
      		 682.09 900.37 1.32×
      funcret
      		 11,231 17,781 1.58×
      hash
      		 159,928 232,544 1.45×
      intmath
      		 58,228 65,836 1.13×
      nop
      		 236,439 190,523 0.81×
      prime
      		 430,993 523,514 1.21×
      rotate
      		 89,291 96,479 1.08×
      str
      		 841,820 1,128,824 1.34×
      wcs
      		 612,084 754,497 1.23×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,047 3,531 1.16×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 759.91 1,044 1.37×
      zlib
      		 39.7 67.95 1.71×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 39,838 59,388 1.49×
      clone
      		 437.64 481.22 1.10×
      context
      		 4,673 7,723 1.65×
      cpu-sched
      		 58.9 127.34 2.16×
      eventfd
      		 105,304 192,558 1.83×
      fault
      		 26,714 34,330 1.29×
      fork
      		 7,657 11,867 1.55×
      getrandom
      		 53,698 78,230 1.46×
      hrtimers
      		 147,102 239,384 1.63×
      mprotect
      		 674,658 679,613 1.01×
      mtx
      		 12,135,430 62,853,788 5.18×
      munmap
      		 5,529 7,760 1.40×
      null
      		 810,811 1,272,882 1.57×
      pipe
      		 3,290,866 1,521,368 0.46×
      priv-instr
      		 758,477 1,093,072 1.44×
      resched
      		 397,384 275,870 0.69×
      switch
      		 272,111 609,231 2.24×
      timermix
      		 202,968 314,706 1.55×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,783 6,631 0.85×
      tsc
      		 518,688 875,373 1.69×
      usersyscall
      		 640,811 923,242 1.44×
      vdso
      		 81,045,029 126,061,398 1.56×
      vfork
      		 48,613 73,995 1.52×
      x86syscall
      		 8,747,531 14,682,065 1.68×
      yield
      		 1,743,195 1,819,519 1.04×
      zero
      		 5,634,510 9,145,763 1.62×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 14,464 19,036 1.32×
      expmath
      		 3,169 4,610 1.45×
      fma
      		 1,179,116 1,531,564 1.30×
      fp
      		 196.37 287.05 1.46×
      fractal
      		 6 8.6 1.43×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,659 5,266 1.44×
      logmath
      		 4,682 7,425 1.59×
      matrix
      		 4,746 5,241 1.10×
      matrix-3d
      		 790.44 927.63 1.17×
      monte-carlo
      		 258.95 429.97 1.66×
      mpfr
      		 1,580 1,852 1.17×
      powmath
      		 1,760 2,685 1.53×
      trig
      		 2,413 3,159 1.31×
      veccmp
      		 22,007 25,773 1.17×
      vecfp
      		 1,351 1,701 1.26×
      vecmath
      		 3,443 4,818 1.40×
      vecshuf
      		 720.08 828.78 1.15×
      vecwide
      		 30,237 36,849 1.22×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 7.8 9.6 1.23×
      bsearch
      		 257.85 313.06 1.21×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 1.2 1.50×
      fibsearch
      		 294.67 366.12 1.24×
      heapsort
      		 9 12.4 1.38×
      hsearch
      		 7,328 9,013 1.23×
      insertionsort
      		 11.4 10.4 0.91×
      malloc
      		 2,642,263 4,965,904 1.88×
      mcontend
      		 414.04 447.53 1.08×
      mergesort
      		 27.4 39.8 1.45×
      qsort
      		 19.8 27.6 1.39×
      skiplist
      		 4,905 7,778 1.59×
      tree
      		 1.6 2.4 1.50×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 237,298 267,365 1.13×
      cachehammer
      		 214,504 357,726 1.67×
      cacheline
      		 29.73 61.24 2.06×
      l1cache
      		 984.63 377.38 0.38×
      memcpy
      		 397.98 403.47 1.01×
      memrate
      		 0.13 0.24 1.85×
      memthrash
      		 73.37 95.14 1.30×
      ptr-chase
      		 32,359,042 55,977,676 1.73×
      spinmem
      		 199.59 104.58 0.52×
      stream
      		 5.8 15.86 2.73×
      vm
      		 109,244 196,368 1.80×

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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