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
1,837
(All-cores)
1,398
(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
17.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-10T14:21:12.980322

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0583 USD/h 0.0971 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0269 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0306 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0551 USD/h 0.1068 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0096 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0331 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0471 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0473 USD/h 0.1069 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0275 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0584 USD/h 0.1094 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0414 USD/h 0.1125 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0123 USD/h 0.1127 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0351 USD/h 0.1127 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0217 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0269 USD/h 0.1146 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0105 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0408 USD/h 0.1166 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0389 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0397 USD/h 0.1167 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0477 USD/h 0.1171 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0409 USD/h 0.1175 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0273 USD/h 0.118 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0508 USD/h 0.1198 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0343 USD/h 0.1246 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.035 USD/h 0.1247 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0425 USD/h 0.1247 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0178 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0251 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0599 USD/h 0.1251 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0234 USD/h 0.1253 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0447 USD/h 0.1272 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0744 USD/h 0.1306 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0407 USD/h 0.1359 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0636 USD/h 0.1378 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0342 USD/h 0.1389 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0311 USD/h 0.1542 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0246 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

      An entry-level general-purpose virtual machine featuring dedicated dual-thread processing and balanced memory for lightweight, predictable workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-2 is an x86_64 general-purpose virtual machine configured with 2 dedicated vCPUs and 8.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.8 GHz, it features 1 physical core with hyper-threading, a 33 MB L3 cache, and no bundled local storage or GPUs. Performance benchmarks indicate that this instance occupies the lower tiers for compute and memory bandwidth, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1123.0 and a multi-core score of 1333.0. However, it achieves average performance in single-threaded gzip compression at 23.81 GB/sec. The n2-standard-2 is qualitatively positioned as an entry-level dedicated resource option. It is best suited for lightweight workloads such as basic web serving, small-scale text processing, and minor database operations that require predictable CPU allocation without demanding high-performance throughput.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.141Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0923 50.00% 50.00% -69.60%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,112,116 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0952 20.00% 20.00% -37.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 980.6 2,418 0.406 10.00% 10.00% -8.62%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 17,194 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.159 10.00% 10.00% -16.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,934 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.818 10.00% 10.00% -1.99%

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      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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