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n1-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-standard-2 is a 2 vCPUs, 7.5 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0191 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1451
(All-cores)
1104
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
3002
Name
n1-standard-2
Description
2 vCPUs, 7.5 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
19
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-21T22:45:10.251328

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0335 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0335 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0335 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0394 USD/h 0.1045 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0436 USD/h 0.1045 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0327 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0402 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0572 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0608 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0274 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0304 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0215 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.025 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0275 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0401 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0462 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0273 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0235 USD/h 0.1172 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0405 USD/h 0.1219 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0429 USD/h 0.1219 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0474 USD/h 0.1219 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0319 USD/h 0.1224 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.043 USD/h 0.1224 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0393 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0191 USD/h 0.1277 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0286 USD/h 0.1329 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0271 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0436 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0316 USD/h 0.1508 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
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 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, general-purpose virtual machine with dedicated Intel Xeon resources for lightweight workloads and development environments.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-standard-2 is an entry-level general-purpose virtual machine featuring 2 vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon x86_64 processor running at 2.3 GHz, this instance allocates 2 threads per physical core with dedicated CPU resources. It does not include local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks indicate that the n1-standard-2 resides in the lower tiers, with a Geekbench single-core score of 936.0 and a multi-core score of 1106.0, both placing in the bottom 10% to 25% of tested hardware. Memory bandwidth is similarly constrained, reaching 13.5 GB/sec for large-block reads. Given its qualitative cost efficiency as an older-generation dedicated resource, this instance is best suited for lightweight workloads such as static web serving, development environments, small-scale Redis caching, and basic database operations.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.113Score
      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) 124,515 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0657 50.00% 50.00% -74.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 842,336 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.073 20.00% 20.00% -40.80%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 870.2 2,411 0.361 10.00% 10.00% -9.69%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,970 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.205 10.00% 10.00% -14.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,666 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.705 10.00% 10.00% -3.44%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 936

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,106

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		1899
      Compression
      		24346
      Encryption
      		704
      Extended Instructions
      		1195
      Floating Point Maths
      		3286
      Integer Maths
      		5356
      Physics
      		247
      Prime Numbers
      		12
      Single Threaded
      		1666
      String Sorting
      		2812

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		870
      Database Operations
      		641
      Memory Latency
      		57
      Memory Read Cached
      		20944
      Memory Read Uncached
      		10471
      Memory Write
      		9550

      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
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      n1-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      n1-highmem-2 213 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-8 87 GiB0

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