e2-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

e2-standard-4 is a Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0199 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,907
(All-cores)
1,106
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
335004
Name
e2-standard-4
Description
Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
e2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-24T15:52:24.385501

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0711 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0804 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0804 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0804 USD/h 0.134 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0377 USD/h 0.1407 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0526 USD/h 0.1461 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0521 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0756 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0793 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0322 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0478 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0885 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0405 USD/h 0.1476 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0199 USD/h 0.1509 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0901 USD/h 0.1509 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0722 USD/h 0.1552 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0769 USD/h 0.1555 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0836 USD/h 0.1555 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0502 USD/h 0.1581 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0732 USD/h 0.1582 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0485 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0512 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0831 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0966 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.088 USD/h 0.1616 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0751 USD/h 0.1622 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0767 USD/h 0.1628 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0992 USD/h 0.1653 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0541 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0857 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1032 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0315 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0654 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1036 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0404 USD/h 0.1729 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0825 USD/h 0.1756 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0432 USD/h 0.1802 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0537 USD/h 0.1875 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1011 USD/h 0.1902 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0969 USD/h 0.1917 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0422 USD/h 0.2127 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1286 USD/h 0.2144 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.2 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
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
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
16 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, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 general-purpose instance offering a balanced ratio of 4 vCPUs to 16 GB memory for lightweight services and dev environments.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-standard-4 is a general-purpose x86_64 cloud server featuring an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2 GHz. The instance offers 4 dedicated vCPUs from 2 physical cores with hyperthreading and is paired with 16.0 GB of memory (4.0 GB per vCPU). CPU cache features 16 MB L3 cache with support for AVX, AES, and FMA instruction sets, but omits AVX-512. The instance contains no bundled local storage or discrete GPU acceleration. Benchmarks indicate entry-level compute performance, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 1906.0, Redis SET operations reaching 4.02 million per second, and static web serving throughput measuring 4.19 GB/sec. Small LLM inference using a 135M model generates 104.71 tokens per second. The e2-standard-4 offers a cost-effective, balanced resource ratio suitable for lightweight microservices, web applications, dev/test environments, and low-traffic backends where high memory or computational throughput is not required.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.23Score
      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) 296,406 ops/sec 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.16 50.00% 50.00% -60.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,187,787 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.18 20.00% 20.00% -29.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,798 2,416 0.75 10.00% 10.00% -2.80%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 24,340 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.22 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,626 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 847

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,906

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,414
      Compression
      		 43,972
      Encryption
      		 1,345
      Extended Instructions
      		 2,372
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5,947
      Integer Maths
      		 9,673
      Physics
      		 408
      Prime Numbers
      		 15
      Single Threaded
      		 1,626
      String Sorting
      		 5,133

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1,798
      Database Operations
      		 1,214
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19,223
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9,174
      Memory Write
      		 8,874

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 289.85 295.84 1.02×
      bitops
      		 138,477 318,494 2.30×
      branch
      		 162,265 589,715 3.63×
      funccall
      		 531.2 1,385 2.61×
      funcret
      		 16,890 42,868 2.54×
      hash
      		 130,500 402,391 3.08×
      intmath
      		 57,483 149,674 2.60×
      nop
      		 277,217 557,465 2.01×
      prime
      		 384,279 936,797 2.44×
      rotate
      		 75,707 152,437 2.01×
      str
      		 789,009 1,960,089 2.48×
      wcs
      		 536,924 1,272,150 2.37×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 3,165 6,230 1.97×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 716.94 2,006 2.80×
      zlib
      		 48.56 199.89 4.12×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 19,646 55,842 2.84×
      clone
      		 161.35 377.08 2.34×
      context
      		 3,498 11,424 3.27×
      cpu-sched
      		 79 251.04 3.18×
      eventfd
      		 30,875 214,399 6.94×
      fault
      		 7,205 22,447 3.12×
      fork
      		 2,238 11,127 4.97×
      getrandom
      		 43,087 109,971 2.55×
      hrtimers
      		 126,228 264,973 2.10×
      mprotect
      		 515,922 663,135 1.29×
      mtx
      		 31,585,542 223,005,327 7.06×
      munmap
      		 1,292 6,502 5.03×
      null
      		 442,557 1,411,978 3.19×
      pipe
      		 562,654 1,379,148 2.45×
      priv-instr
      		 374,034 1,163,892 3.11×
      resched
      		 530,275 287,052 0.54×
      switch
      		 60,362 532,927 8.83×
      timermix
      		 145,686 450,006 3.09×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 7,546 9,456 1.25×
      tsc
      		 657,872 2,496,713 3.80×
      usersyscall
      		 301,186 935,408 3.11×
      vdso
      		 77,404,487 253,016,875 3.27×
      vfork
      		 15,837 47,794 3.02×
      x86syscall
      		 5,678,102 16,307,222 2.87×
      yield
      		 1,555,542 1,879,014 1.21×
      zero
      		 2,791,618 7,867,120 2.82×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 13,879 29,390 2.12×
      expmath
      		 2,436 7,736 3.18×
      fma
      		 768,954 2,401,343 3.12×
      fp
      		 224.14 658.13 2.94×
      fractal
      		 6.6 22 3.33×
      hyperbolic
      		 3,204 9,795 3.06×
      logmath
      		 3,810 10,920 2.87×
      matrix
      		 2,589 8,007 3.09×
      matrix-3d
      		 579.33 1,089 1.88×
      monte-carlo
      		 204.18 632.29 3.10×
      mpfr
      		 1,354 3,329 2.46×
      powmath
      		 1,196 3,879 3.24×
      trig
      		 1,471 4,479 3.05×
      veccmp
      		 15,796 41,280 2.61×
      vecfp
      		 1,453 4,240 2.92×
      vecmath
      		 3,358 10,736 3.20×
      vecshuf
      		 523.58 1,217 2.32×
      vecwide
      		 23,328 59,290 2.54×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 8.2 17.6 2.15×
      bsearch
      		 262.03 656.97 2.51×
      bubblesort
      		 0.8 2.4 3.00×
      fibsearch
      		 308.26 701.13 2.27×
      heapsort
      		 8.99 23.2 2.58×
      hsearch
      		 7,225 17,200 2.38×
      insertionsort
      		 11 22.2 2.02×
      malloc
      		 1,597,819 6,173,245 3.86×
      mcontend
      		 133.93 438.68 3.28×
      mergesort
      		 27.2 79.4 2.92×
      qsort
      		 18.2 50.2 2.76×
      skiplist
      		 5,914 18,323 3.10×
      tree
      		 0.8 2.4 3.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 446,280 613,096 1.37×
      cachehammer
      		 184,140 715,766 3.89×
      cacheline
      		 31.34 129.12 4.12×
      l1cache
      		 149.19 322.43 2.16×
      memcpy
      		 244.29 444.88 1.82×
      memrate
      		 1.16 2.27 1.96×
      memthrash
      		 32.36 132.25 4.09×
      ptr-chase
      		 6,209,984 23,335,661 3.76×
      spinmem
      		 227.78 154.37 0.68×
      stream
      		 104.04 1,108 10.65×
      vm
      		 58,476 227,838 3.90×

      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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