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n2-standard-2 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-standard-2 is a 2 vCPUs 8 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0096 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
1837
(All-cores)
1398
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
901002
Name
n2-standard-2
Description
2 vCPUs 8 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-27T12:07:44.691769

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.046 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0461 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0461 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0461 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0234 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.036 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.048 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0096 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0338 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0389 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0503 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.025 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0561 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0418 USD/h 0.1125 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0137 USD/h 0.1127 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0278 USD/h 0.1127 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0255 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0259 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0105 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0355 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0382 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0394 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0438 USD/h 0.1171 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.034 USD/h 0.1175 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0277 USD/h 0.118 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0467 USD/h 0.1198 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0327 USD/h 0.1246 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0307 USD/h 0.1247 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0408 USD/h 0.1247 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0242 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0253 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0498 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0213 USD/h 0.1253 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.041 USD/h 0.1272 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0682 USD/h 0.1306 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0433 USD/h 0.1359 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0528 USD/h 0.1378 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0329 USD/h 0.1389 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0313 USD/h 0.1542 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0235 USD/h 0.1554 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.8 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
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 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, vmx, 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, tpr_shadow, flexpriority, ept, vpid, ept_ad, 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, vnmi, avx512_vnni, 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 dedicated entry-level compute instance with balanced memory and processor resources for lightweight general-purpose workloads.

      General Purpose

      The Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-2 is an entry-level general-purpose instance featuring 2 vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.8 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. It provides dedicated CPU allocation with Hyper-Threading across a single physical core, alongside support for AVX-512 and AES instruction sets. This instance does not include local storage or GPUs. Benchmark results place the n2-standard-2 in the lower performance tiers, with weak single-core and poor multi-core compute metrics, as well as limited memory bandwidth. However, it maintains average performance in single-threaded gzip compression. Given its hardware profile, this instance offers a cost-effective option for workloads requiring dedicated but modest resources. It is best suited for lightweight applications, basic web serving, development environments, and low-intensity background processing.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.143Score
      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) 177,065 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.0934 50.00% 50.00% -69.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,112,116 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.0964 20.00% 20.00% -37.40%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 980.6 2,411 0.407 10.00% 10.00% -8.60%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,194 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.16 10.00% 10.00% -16.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,934 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.819 10.00% 10.00% -1.98%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,123

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,333

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2180
      Compression
      		 27345
      Encryption
      		 848
      Extended Instructions
      		 1522
      Floating Point Maths
      		 3307
      Integer Maths
      		 6163
      Physics
      		 276
      Prime Numbers
      		 13
      Single Threaded
      		 1934
      String Sorting
      		 3240

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 981
      Database Operations
      		 731
      Memory Latency
      		 51
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23879
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10725
      Memory Write
      		 9839

      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
      n2-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      n2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-4 44 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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