n1-highcpu-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highcpu-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 1.8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0155 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,409
(All-cores)
1,086
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
4002
Name
n1-highcpu-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 1.8 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21.67
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-12T18:50:09.455853

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0382 USD/h 0.0708 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0382 USD/h 0.0708 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0382 USD/h 0.0708 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0373 USD/h 0.0779 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0429 USD/h 0.0779 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0179 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0345 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0422 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0445 USD/h 0.078 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.027 USD/h 0.0798 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0286 USD/h 0.0798 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0176 USD/h 0.082 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0214 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0249 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0296 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0375 USD/h 0.0851 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0269 USD/h 0.0857 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0222 USD/h 0.0874 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0384 USD/h 0.091 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0468 USD/h 0.091 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0468 USD/h 0.091 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0314 USD/h 0.0913 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0427 USD/h 0.0913 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0337 USD/h 0.0928 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0155 USD/h 0.0953 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0157 USD/h 0.0991 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0201 USD/h 0.1005 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0474 USD/h 0.1005 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0311 USD/h 0.1125 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
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
1.3
Scalability
130

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

      An entry-level, budget-friendly compute instance with dedicated vCPUs and minimal memory for lightweight utility workloads and basic web serving.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-2 is an entry-level, compute-focused virtual machine featuring 2 dedicated vCPUs and 2.0 GB of RAM on an Intel Xeon x86_64 platform. Running at 2.3 GHz, the single physical core utilizes hyper-threading but lacks bundled local storage or GPU acceleration. Benchmark results place this instance in the lower percentiles, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1086.39 and multi-core score of 1408.88. Memory bandwidth is constrained, reaching 13.22 GB/sec for large block reads. Given these hardware limitations, the server is best suited for low-resource, budget-conscious workloads. It is appropriate for basic web serving, lightweight background processes, and simple development tasks that do not require significant memory or high-performance multi-core processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.109Score
      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) 124,955 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0652 50.00% 50.00% -74.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 818,158 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.07 20.00% 20.00% -41.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 730.4 2,418 0.302 10.00% 10.00% -11.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,683 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.201 10.00% 10.00% -14.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,535 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.649 10.00% 10.00% -4.23%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 1639
      Compression
      		 21615
      Encryption
      		 653
      Extended Instructions
      		 1159
      Floating Point Maths
      		 2957
      Integer Maths
      		 4790
      Physics
      		 146
      Prime Numbers
      		 6
      Single Threaded
      		 1535
      String Sorting
      		 2328

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 730
      Database Operations
      		 451
      Memory Latency
      		 94
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18549
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 5857
      Memory Write
      		 6270

      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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      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0
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