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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 0.0182 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2907
(All-cores)
1106
(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
2026-07-26T06:50:03.621657

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0465 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
0.0345 USD/h 0.1407 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0528 USD/h 0.1461 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0457 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0714 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0728 USD/h 0.1474 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0282 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0439 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0705 USD/h 0.1475 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0393 USD/h 0.1476 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0182 USD/h 0.1509 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0828 USD/h 0.1509 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0811 USD/h 0.1552 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0706 USD/h 0.1555 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0768 USD/h 0.1555 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.051 USD/h 0.1581 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0826 USD/h 0.1582 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0424 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0496 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0691 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0966 USD/h 0.161 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0809 USD/h 0.1616 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0465 USD/h 0.1622 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0613 USD/h 0.1628 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0863 USD/h 0.1653 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0451 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0615 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1032 USD/h 0.1719 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0278 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0547 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0839 USD/h 0.1727 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0436 USD/h 0.1729 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.069 USD/h 0.1756 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0379 USD/h 0.1802 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0388 USD/h 0.1875 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0886 USD/h 0.1902 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0664 USD/h 0.1917 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0389 USD/h 0.2127 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.1115 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 with balanced resources for lightweight web serving, development, and basic background utility tasks.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform e2-standard-4 is a general-purpose virtual machine configured with 4 vCPUs and 16.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.2 GHz, this instance features 2 physical cores with hyperthreading and a dedicated CPU allocation. It does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks position this instance in the lower tier, with a single-core Geekbench score of 847.0 and a multi-core stress-ng score of 2907.35. However, it maintains average capabilities in text generation for small LLM models, achieving 104.71 tokens/sec. The e2-standard-4 is a cost-efficient option for lightweight workloads, making it suitable for basic web serving, development environments, and small-scale background tasks that do not require high-performance compute or local NVMe storage.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.229Score
      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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.156 50.00% 50.00% -60.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,187,787 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.19 20.00% 20.00% -28.30%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,798 2,411 0.746 10.00% 10.00% -2.89%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 24,340 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.227 10.00% 10.00% -13.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,626 Mops/s 2,363 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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