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 0.0189 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1,451
(All-cores)
1,104
(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
2026-09-03T17:19:49.505083

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0539 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0539 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0539 USD/h 0.095 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0476 USD/h 0.1045 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0606 USD/h 0.1045 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0253 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0486 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0596 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0627 USD/h 0.1046 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0381 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0403 USD/h 0.107 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0225 USD/h 0.11 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0273 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0351 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0418 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0479 USD/h 0.1141 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.038 USD/h 0.115 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0314 USD/h 0.1172 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0542 USD/h 0.1219 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.066 USD/h 0.1219 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.066 USD/h 0.1219 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0444 USD/h 0.1224 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0603 USD/h 0.1224 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0475 USD/h 0.1244 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0189 USD/h 0.1277 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0221 USD/h 0.1329 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0256 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.067 USD/h 0.1348 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0439 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

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.112Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0649 50.00% 50.00% -74.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 842,336 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0721 20.00% 20.00% -40.90%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 870.2 2,418 0.36 10.00% 10.00% -9.71%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 21,970 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.203 10.00% 10.00% -14.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,666 Mops/s 2,365 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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      Alternatives

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      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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