n2-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-highcpu-4 is a 4 vCPUs 4 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0148 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,700
(All-cores)
1,404
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
903004
Name
n2-highcpu-4
Description
4 vCPUs 4 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T01:45:00.077722

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0817 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0817 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0817 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.086 USD/h 0.1434 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0358 USD/h 0.1577 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0449 USD/h 0.1577 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0848 USD/h 0.1577 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0148 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.044 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0656 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0769 USD/h 0.1579 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0404 USD/h 0.1615 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0898 USD/h 0.1615 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.055 USD/h 0.166 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0164 USD/h 0.1663 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0466 USD/h 0.1663 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0288 USD/h 0.1692 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0438 USD/h 0.1692 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0155 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0542 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0582 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0631 USD/h 0.1722 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.089 USD/h 0.1729 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0543 USD/h 0.1735 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0329 USD/h 0.1742 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0675 USD/h 0.1769 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0514 USD/h 0.1841 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0533 USD/h 0.1841 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0591 USD/h 0.1841 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0248 USD/h 0.1848 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0369 USD/h 0.1848 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.102 USD/h 0.1848 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0344 USD/h 0.185 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0687 USD/h 0.1878 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0989 USD/h 0.1928 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0627 USD/h 0.2006 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0934 USD/h 0.2035 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0527 USD/h 0.2051 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0501 USD/h 0.2276 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.038 USD/h 0.2294 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.8 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
2 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 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, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, arat, avx512_vnni, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 dedicated compute instance featuring a low memory-to-core ratio, designed for lightweight, single-threaded processing and basic utility workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-highcpu-4 is an x86_64 server instance within the n2 family, featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical Intel Xeon cores running at 2.8 GHz. It is configured with 4.0 GB of RAM, representing a low memory-to-vCPU ratio of 1.0 GB per core, and contains no local storage or GPU hardware. Performance benchmarks place this instance primarily in the bottom 25% tier, with notable bottlenecks in memory bandwidth and multi-threaded decompression, which ranks in the bottom 10%. However, it achieves average performance in single-threaded bzip3 decompression and text processing. Due to the strict memory constraint of 1.0 GB per vCPU, this instance is appropriate for lightweight compute tasks, basic text processing, and low-memory utility workloads rather than memory-intensive database operations or large-scale compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.25Score
      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) 364,046 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.19 50.00% 50.00% -56.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,304,103 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.19 20.00% 20.00% -28.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,053 2,417 0.46 10.00% 10.00% -7.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 34,824 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,977 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.83 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,156

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,529

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4325
      Compression
      		 55716
      Encryption
      		 1700
      Extended Instructions
      		 3154
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6651
      Integer Maths
      		 12358
      Physics
      		 509
      Prime Numbers
      		 26
      Single Threaded
      		 1977
      String Sorting
      		 6542

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1053
      Database Operations
      		 1419
      Memory Latency
      		 53
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23959
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9876
      Memory Write
      		 9564

      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

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      n2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      n2-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n2-standard-4 416 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0
      n2-standard-8 832 GiB0

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