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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
1077
(All-cores)
1077
(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
2026-07-23T09:39:00.114896

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
0.0043 USD/h 0.0283 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0032 USD/h 0.0285 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0026 USD/h 0.0289 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0035 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
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0028 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0029 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0039 USD/h 0.0308 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0038 USD/h 0.0311 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0029 USD/h 0.0322 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0059 USD/h 0.0322 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0084 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
0.003 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
0.0035 USD/h 0.0357 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0032 USD/h 0.0359 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0033 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
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, shared-core virtual machine designed for lightweight development, basic testing, and low-intensity background tasks.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform g1-small is a shared-core virtual machine designed for entry-level, budget-conscious workloads. It features 1 vCPU on a shared Intel Xeon physical core running at 2.3 GHz, paired with 2.0 GB of RAM. Operating on the x86_64 architecture, the instance lacks local storage and dedicated GPUs. Benchmark results indicate limited performance, with a Passmark CPU score of 1263.03 and a static web serving throughput of 0.54 GB/sec. Memory bandwidth is constrained, reaching 10.49 GB/sec for uncached large block reads. Given these resource constraints and its shared-core architecture, the g1-small is best suited for low-intensity applications, including lightweight web serving, microservices, software development testing, and basic administrative scripting.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.073Score
      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 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0416 50.00% 50.00% -79.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 357,491 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.031 20.00% 20.00% -50.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 792.9 2,411 0.329 10.00% 10.00% -10.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,669 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.165 10.00% 10.00% -16.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,487 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.629 10.00% 10.00% -4.53%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1263
      Compression
      		 15405
      Encryption
      		 402
      Extended Instructions
      		 1074
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2626
      Integer Maths
      		 3146
      Physics
      		 161
      Prime Numbers
      		 8
      Single Threaded
      		 1487
      String Sorting
      		 1813

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 793
      Database Operations
      		 565
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18573
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8443
      Memory Write
      		 8420

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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