n1-standard-8 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-standard-8 is a 8 vCPUs, 30 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 8 vCPUs, 30 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0757 USD per hour.
8 vCPU
30 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
5,835
(All-cores)
1,113
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
3008
Name
n1-standard-8
Description
8 vCPUs, 30 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-03T09:00:32.054150

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.2158 USD/h 0.38 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.2158 USD/h 0.38 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.2158 USD/h 0.38 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1906 USD/h 0.418 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.2424 USD/h 0.418 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1946 USD/h 0.4183 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2385 USD/h 0.4183 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.251 USD/h 0.4183 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1011 USD/h 0.4184 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1522 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1614 USD/h 0.428 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.09 USD/h 0.44 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1093 USD/h 0.4564 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.1402 USD/h 0.4564 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1674 USD/h 0.4564 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1917 USD/h 0.4564 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.152 USD/h 0.4598 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1255 USD/h 0.4688 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.2167 USD/h 0.4875 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.2638 USD/h 0.4875 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.2639 USD/h 0.4875 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1775 USD/h 0.4896 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.2412 USD/h 0.4896 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1902 USD/h 0.4978 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0757 USD/h 0.511 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0885 USD/h 0.5317 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1024 USD/h 0.5392 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2678 USD/h 0.5392 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1757 USD/h 0.6032 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
8
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
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
5.2
Scalability
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
30 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
30 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 balanced general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated Intel Xeon processors and a stable resource profile for standard enterprise workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-standard-8 is a general-purpose virtual machine instance featuring 8 vCPUs and 30.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.3 GHz on the x86_64 architecture, it provides 4 physical cores with hyperthreading enabled. The instance does not include bundled local storage or GPU accelerators. Benchmark data indicates that the server delivers modest compute performance, with stress-ng and Geekbench results placing it in the bottom 25% for processing power. However, it maintains average performance in large-block memory bandwidth, ray tracing, and small-model LLM text generation. Given its balanced resource profile and dedicated CPU allocation, the n1-standard-8 is qualitatively cost-effective for workloads that do not require high-speed local storage or intensive single-core performance. It is best suited for general-purpose applications, standard web serving, and moderate database operations.

      Economics

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      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.354Score
      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) 518,408 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.27 50.00% 50.00% -48.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,342,787 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.286 20.00% 20.00% -22.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,146 2,418 0.887 10.00% 10.00% -1.19%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 45,875 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.424 10.00% 10.00% -8.22%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,637 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.692 10.00% 10.00% -3.61%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 923

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,531

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6656
      Compression
      		 88351
      Encryption
      		 2705
      Extended Instructions
      		 4384
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12048
      Integer Maths
      		 19562
      Physics
      		 774
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 1637
      String Sorting
      		 10417

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2146
      Database Operations
      		 2418
      Memory Latency
      		 57
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19442
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10068
      Memory Write
      		 9291

      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-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n1-highmem-2 213 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0

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