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 0.0133 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
2026-09-11T21:48:36.986195

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0552 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0552 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0552 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0552 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0578 USD/h 0.0969 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0332 USD/h 0.1007 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0441 USD/h 0.1007 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0267 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0346 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0404 USD/h 0.1017 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0362 USD/h 0.1056 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0133 USD/h 0.1066 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0157 USD/h 0.1067 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0285 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
0.0467 USD/h 0.1104 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0637 USD/h 0.1122 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0184 USD/h 0.1124 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0326 USD/h 0.1124 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.028 USD/h 0.1143 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0319 USD/h 0.1143 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0428 USD/h 0.1143 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0291 USD/h 0.1164 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0365 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
0.0524 USD/h 0.1195 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0387 USD/h 0.1211 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0484 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0518 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0714 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0203 USD/h 0.125 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0556 USD/h 0.1259 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0689 USD/h 0.1269 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0234 USD/h 0.1303 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0519 USD/h 0.1355 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0457 USD/h 0.1385 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0519 USD/h 0.1538 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0167 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
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
7 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
7 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    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 compute instance featuring strong single-core performance and advanced Intel instruction sets for lightweight workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-standard-2 is an entry-level, compute-focused instance featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs and 7.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor at 2.3 GHz, it delivers strong single-core performance, as evidenced by a Geekbench single-core score of 2081.0 and high single-threaded compression speeds. However, its dual-vCPU configuration and 3.5 GB of memory per core limit its multi-threaded and memory-intensive capabilities, with uncached memory read bandwidth reaching only 15.64 GB/sec. Lacking local storage and GPUs, this instance is highly specialized. It offers a cost-effective entry point for workloads requiring dedicated CPU allocation and advanced instruction sets like AVX-512 and AMX, but is constrained by its low resource density. The c4-standard-2 is best suited for single-threaded tasks, lightweight text processing, and basic background utility services.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.276Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.223 50.00% 50.00% -52.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,115,998 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.181 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 941.7 2,418 0.389 10.00% 10.00% -9.01%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 36,669 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.339 10.00% 10.00% -10.30%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,547 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.08 10.00% 10.00% +0.77%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,081

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,627

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3324
      Compression
      		 32459
      Encryption
      		 1880
      Extended Instructions
      		 2240
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6005
      Integer Maths
      		 8395
      Physics
      		 426
      Prime Numbers
      		 19
      Single Threaded
      		 2547
      String Sorting
      		 4340

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 942
      Database Operations
      		 1325
      Memory Latency
      		 67
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23017
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7876
      Memory Write
      		 7404

      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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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      c4-standard-4 415 GiB0
      c4-standard-4-lssd 415 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4 431 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4-lssd 431 GiB0

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