e2-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

e2-highcpu-4 is a Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.014 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,916
(All-cores)
1,110
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
337004
Name
e2-highcpu-4
Description
Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
20.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T10:47:04.805843

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0414 USD/h 0.0989 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0594 USD/h 0.0989 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0594 USD/h 0.0989 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0594 USD/h 0.0989 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0254 USD/h 0.1039 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.037 USD/h 0.1078 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.037 USD/h 0.1088 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0534 USD/h 0.1088 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.062 USD/h 0.1088 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0217 USD/h 0.1089 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0288 USD/h 0.1089 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0322 USD/h 0.1089 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0517 USD/h 0.1089 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.014 USD/h 0.1114 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0606 USD/h 0.1114 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0538 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0572 USD/h 0.1148 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0622 USD/h 0.1148 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0412 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0665 USD/h 0.1168 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0327 USD/h 0.1188 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0364 USD/h 0.1188 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0559 USD/h 0.1188 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0713 USD/h 0.1188 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0592 USD/h 0.1193 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0457 USD/h 0.1197 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0493 USD/h 0.1202 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0733 USD/h 0.1221 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0423 USD/h 0.1271 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0609 USD/h 0.1271 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0763 USD/h 0.1271 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0234 USD/h 0.1275 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0538 USD/h 0.1275 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0725 USD/h 0.1275 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0367 USD/h 0.1276 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0555 USD/h 0.1296 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.029 USD/h 0.133 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0284 USD/h 0.1384 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0718 USD/h 0.1404 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.051 USD/h 0.1415 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0315 USD/h 0.1571 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0949 USD/h 0.1583 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
AMD
CPU Family
EPYC
CPU Model
7B12
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
55 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
55 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, ht, syscall, nx, mmxext, fxsr_opt, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, extd_apicid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, cmp_legacy, cr8_legacy, abm, sse4a, misalignsse, 3dnowprefetch, osvw, topoext, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, vmmcall, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, sha_ni, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, clzero, xsaveerptr, arat, npt, nrip_save, umip, rdpid
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 budget-friendly, compute-skewed virtual machine featuring dedicated AMD EPYC cores and a compact memory footprint for lightweight processing.

      Compute OptimizedBurstable & Budget

      Google Cloud Platform e2-highcpu-4 is an x86_64 virtual machine configured with 4 vCPUs and 4.0 GB of RAM, powered by an AMD EPYC 7B12 processor. Featuring a dedicated CPU allocation with 2 physical cores and 2 threads per core, this instance lacks local storage and GPU acceleration. Performance benchmarks position the server primarily in the lower tiers, with weak single-core and multi-core CPU scores, alongside poor small-block memory bandwidth. However, it achieves average-tier results in large-block memory operations, single-threaded gzip compression, and text processing. With a low memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1.0 GB per core, the e2-highcpu-4 is a budget-friendly option designed for lightweight, CPU-focused workloads such as basic web serving, software compilation, and simple batch processing tasks that do not require substantial memory resources.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.213Score
      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) 253,369 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.132 50.00% 50.00% -63.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,741,358 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.149 20.00% 20.00% -31.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,072 2,418 0.443 10.00% 10.00% -7.82%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 51,476 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.476 10.00% 10.00% -7.15%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,364 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1 10.00% 10.00% 0.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,409

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,168

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6104
      Compression
      		 63814
      Encryption
      		 4269
      Extended Instructions
      		 3602
      Floating Point Maths
      		 9133
      Integer Maths
      		 16482
      Physics
      		 723
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2364
      String Sorting
      		 8987

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1072
      Database Operations
      		 1676
      Memory Latency
      		 74
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23867
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 14596
      Memory Write
      		 14542

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      e2-micro 21 GiB0
      e2-small 22 GiB0
      e2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      e2-medium 24 GiB0
      e2-standard-2 28 GiB0
      e2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      e2-standard-4 416 GiB0

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