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n2-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n2-standard-4 is a 4 vCPUs 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0193 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3676
(All-cores)
1405
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
901004
Name
n2-standard-4
Description
4 vCPUs 16 GB RAM
Family
n2
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
15
Status
active
Observed At
2026-07-26T14:42:55.218778

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0919 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0921 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0921 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0921 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0469 USD/h 0.2137 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.072 USD/h 0.2137 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0959 USD/h 0.2137 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0193 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0676 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0777 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.1007 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1122 USD/h 0.2187 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0501 USD/h 0.2188 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0836 USD/h 0.2249 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0274 USD/h 0.2253 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0557 USD/h 0.2253 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.051 USD/h 0.2292 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0518 USD/h 0.2292 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.021 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.071 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0763 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0789 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0875 USD/h 0.2343 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.068 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0554 USD/h 0.236 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0933 USD/h 0.2396 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0654 USD/h 0.2492 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0613 USD/h 0.2494 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0817 USD/h 0.2494 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0506 USD/h 0.2502 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0996 USD/h 0.2502 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0484 USD/h 0.2503 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0426 USD/h 0.2506 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.082 USD/h 0.2545 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1364 USD/h 0.2612 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0866 USD/h 0.2718 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1056 USD/h 0.2756 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0658 USD/h 0.2778 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0625 USD/h 0.3083 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0471 USD/h 0.3108 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 with dedicated Intel Xeon processors, configured for moderate utility workloads and basic web serving.

      General Purpose

      The Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-4 is an x86_64 general-purpose instance configured with 4 dedicated vCPUs, 2 physical Intel Xeon cores running at 2.8 GHz, and 16.0 GB of RAM. It lacks bundled local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks position the instance primarily in the lower tiers, with stress-ng single-core and multi-core CPU performance falling into the bottom 25%. Memory bandwidth is also limited, with large-block read speeds at 27.03 GB/sec. However, it achieves average results in single-threaded gzip compression and Geekbench text processing. Given these characteristics, the n2-standard-4 is best suited for moderate, non-parallel workloads such as basic web serving, text processing, and general utility tasks, rather than high-performance database operations or software compilation.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.256Score
      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) 336,958 ops/sec 1,896,415 ops/sec 0.178 50.00% 50.00% -57.80%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,148,949 ops/sec 11,539,523 ops/sec 0.186 20.00% 20.00% -28.60%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,979 2,411 0.821 10.00% 10.00% -1.95%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,957 MB/sec 107,368 MB/sec 0.288 10.00% 10.00% -11.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,973 Mops/s 2,363 Mops/s 0.835 10.00% 10.00% -1.79%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,147

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,501

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 4259
      Compression
      		 55212
      Encryption
      		 1694
      Extended Instructions
      		 3126
      Floating Point Maths
      		 6621
      Integer Maths
      		 12314
      Physics
      		 468
      Prime Numbers
      		 21
      Single Threaded
      		 1973
      String Sorting
      		 6542

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1979
      Database Operations
      		 1419
      Memory Latency
      		 52
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23959
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 10160
      Memory Write
      		 9701

      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-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n2-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n2-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n2-highcpu-8 88 GiB0
      n2-standard-8 832 GiB0

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