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 0.019 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
2026-09-09T10:47:04.806219

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.056 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
0.0343 USD/h 0.1407 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0501 USD/h 0.1461 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0502 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0723 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.084 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0294 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0436 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.07 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.039 USD/h 0.1476 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.019 USD/h 0.1509 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0821 USD/h 0.1509 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0729 USD/h 0.1552 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0774 USD/h 0.1555 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0842 USD/h 0.1555 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0559 USD/h 0.1581 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0901 USD/h 0.1582 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0442 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0493 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0758 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0966 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0802 USD/h 0.1616 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.062 USD/h 0.1622 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0668 USD/h 0.1628 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0992 USD/h 0.1653 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0572 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0824 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1032 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0317 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0728 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0982 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0497 USD/h 0.1729 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0751 USD/h 0.1756 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0394 USD/h 0.1802 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0385 USD/h 0.1875 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0972 USD/h 0.1902 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.069 USD/h 0.1917 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0426 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 cost-efficient general-purpose virtual machine featuring a balanced resource profile for lightweight utility workloads and basic web serving.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-standard-4 is an x86_64 general-purpose instance within the E2 family, featuring 4 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.2 GHz, it provides 2 physical cores with hyper-threading and a dedicated CPU allocation. The instance does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate that the e2-standard-4 is positioned in the lower tiers, with weak to poor results in CPU compute, memory bandwidth, and compression tasks. However, it maintains average performance in text generation for small language models. This instance offers a cost-efficient profile for resource-light applications, making it suitable for general-purpose workloads, lightweight web serving, small database operations, and background utility tasks that do not demand high-performance compute.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.227Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.155 50.00% 50.00% -60.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,187,787 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.187 20.00% 20.00% -28.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,798 2,418 0.744 10.00% 10.00% -2.91%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 24,340 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.225 10.00% 10.00% -13.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,626 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.688 10.00% 10.00% -3.67%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 847

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,906

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3414
      Compression
      		 43972
      Encryption
      		 1345
      Extended Instructions
      		 2372
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5947
      Integer Maths
      		 9673
      Physics
      		 408
      Prime Numbers
      		 15
      Single Threaded
      		 1626
      String Sorting
      		 5133

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1798
      Database Operations
      		 1214
      Memory Latency
      		 55
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19223
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9174
      Memory Write
      		 8874

      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

      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-highcpu-4 44 GiB0

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