g1-small by Google Cloud Platform

g1-small is a 1 vCPU (shared physical core) and 1.7 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 1 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0023 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,077
(All-cores)
1,077
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
2000
Name
g1-small
Description
1 vCPU (shared physical core) and 1.7 GB RAM
Family
g1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
23
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-21T18:39:37.277361

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0023 USD/h 0.0257 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0023 USD/h 0.0257 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0023 USD/h 0.0257 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0025 USD/h 0.0283 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0025 USD/h 0.0283 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0026 USD/h 0.0283 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.003 USD/h 0.0283 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0026 USD/h 0.0285 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0026 USD/h 0.0289 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0026 USD/h 0.0289 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0027 USD/h 0.03 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0028 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0028 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0028 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0028 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0031 USD/h 0.0311 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0029 USD/h 0.0322 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0032 USD/h 0.0322 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0076 USD/h 0.0322 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0029 USD/h 0.0324 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0029 USD/h 0.0324 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0029 USD/h 0.0324 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.003 USD/h 0.0337 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0031 USD/h 0.0339 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0032 USD/h 0.0357 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0032 USD/h 0.0359 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0036 USD/h 0.0365 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0036 USD/h 0.04 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 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, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 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

      An entry-level shared-core instance providing minimal compute resources and memory for lightweight background tasks and simple microservice hosting.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform g1-small is a budget-oriented virtual machine powered by 1 vCPU from a shared Intel Xeon processor operating at 2.3 GHz with 2.0 GB of RAM. Operating on x86_64 architecture, it includes hardware flags such as AVX, AES, and FMA, while omitting attached local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmark evaluations place its compute and memory capabilities in lower performance tiers, recording a PassMark CPU score of 1263.03, stress-ng multi-core performance of 1076.89, and uncached memory read bandwidth of 10.49 GB/sec. Task-specific execution metrics demonstrate a static web serving throughput of 0.54 GB/sec and a Redis SET rate of 0.59 million operations per second. The instance presents high qualitative cost efficiency for intermittent tasks, balanced against limited sustained execution capacity. It is best suited for lightweight background services, low-traffic microservices, and development environments.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.072Score
      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) 78,975 ops/sec 1,918,343 ops/sec 0.042 50.00% 50.00% -80.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 357,491 ops/sec 11,704,734 ops/sec 0.03 20.00% 20.00% -50.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 790 2,416 0.33 10.00% 10.00% -10.00%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,669 MB/sec 108,420 MB/sec 0.16 10.00% 10.00% -17.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,487 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.62 10.00% 10.00% -4.70%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1,263
      Compression
      		 15,405
      Encryption
      		 402
      Extended Instructions
      		 1,074
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2,626
      Integer Maths
      		 3,146
      Physics
      		 161
      Prime Numbers
      		 8
      Single Threaded
      		 1,487
      String Sorting
      		 1,813

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 793
      Database Operations
      		 565
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18,573
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8,443
      Memory Write
      		 8,420

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 506.94 506.94 1.00×
      bitops
      		 83,427 83,427 1.00×
      branch
      		 118,791 118,791 1.00×
      funccall
      		 227.59 227.59 1.00×
      funcret
      		 4,263 4,263 1.00×
      hash
      		 47,146 47,146 1.00×
      intmath
      		 8,464 8,464 1.00×
      nop
      		 72,841 72,841 1.00×
      prime
      		 129,066 129,066 1.00×
      rotate
      		 36,093 36,093 1.00×
      str
      		 255,403 255,403 1.00×
      wcs
      		 179,998 179,998 1.00×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,876 1,876 1.00×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 220.12 220.12 1.00×
      zlib
      		 13.13 13.13 1.00×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 13,773 13,773 1.00×
      clone
      		 158.47 158.47 1.00×
      context
      		 953.38 953.38 1.00×
      cpu-sched
      		 63.83 63.83 1.00×
      eventfd
      		 53,562 53,562 1.00×
      fault
      		 6,867 6,867 1.00×
      fork
      		 3,193 3,193 1.00×
      getrandom
      		 16,909 16,909 1.00×
      hrtimers
      		 44,250 44,250 1.00×
      mprotect
      		 66,282 66,282 1.00×
      mtx
      		 18,769,480 18,769,480 1.00×
      munmap
      		 1,001 1,001 1.00×
      null
      		 46,599 46,599 1.00×
      pipe
      		 147,486 147,486 1.00×
      priv-instr
      		 124,331 124,331 1.00×
      resched
      		 13,755 13,755 1.00×
      switch
      		 66,717 66,717 1.00×
      timermix
      		 62,723 62,723 1.00×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 1,161 1,161 1.00×
      tsc
      		 377,534 377,534 1.00×
      usersyscall
      		 82,146 82,146 1.00×
      vdso
      		 30,847,348 30,847,348 1.00×
      vfork
      		 14,218 14,218 1.00×
      x86syscall
      		 521,277 521,277 1.00×
      yield
      		 350,311 350,311 1.00×
      zero
      		 408,776 408,776 1.00×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,438 12,438 1.00×
      expmath
      		 2,075 2,075 1.00×
      fma
      		 437,311 437,311 1.00×
      fp
      		 98.4 98.4 1.00×
      fractal
      		 3.8 3.8 1.00×
      hyperbolic
      		 1,067 1,067 1.00×
      logmath
      		 1,722 1,722 1.00×
      matrix
      		 1,273 1,273 1.00×
      matrix-3d
      		 244.27 244.27 1.00×
      monte-carlo
      		 30.92 30.92 1.00×
      mpfr
      		 458.56 458.56 1.00×
      powmath
      		 603.64 603.64 1.00×
      trig
      		 642.02 642.02 1.00×
      veccmp
      		 5,729 5,729 1.00×
      vecfp
      		 508.72 508.72 1.00×
      vecmath
      		 844.91 844.91 1.00×
      vecshuf
      		 215.55 215.55 1.00×
      vecwide
      		 8,955 8,955 1.00×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 5.6 1.00×
      bsearch
      		 185.98 185.98 1.00×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 0.6 1.00×
      fibsearch
      		 187.04 187.04 1.00×
      heapsort
      		 3 3 1.00×
      hsearch
      		 1,865 1,865 1.00×
      insertionsort
      		 3 3 1.00×
      malloc
      		 517,561 517,561 1.00×
      mcontend
      		 58.94 58.94 1.00×
      mergesort
      		 8.8 8.8 1.00×
      qsort
      		 5.6 5.6 1.00×
      skiplist
      		 1,834 1,834 1.00×
      tree
      		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 270,398 270,398 1.00×
      cachehammer
      		 453,580 453,580 1.00×
      cacheline
      		 12.91 12.91 1.00×
      l1cache
      		 82.57 82.57 1.00×
      memcpy
      		 132.54 132.54 1.00×
      memrate
      		 0.55 0.55 1.00×
      memthrash
      		 19.84 19.84 1.00×
      ptr-chase
      		 4,835,177 4,835,177 1.00×
      stream
      		 9.82 9.82 1.00×
      vm
      		 9,333 9,333 1.00×

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

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