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 0.0192 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,676
(All-cores)
1,405
(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
16.25
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T15:49:46.408903

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1165 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1165 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1165 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1166 USD/h 0.1942 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0539 USD/h 0.2137 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0612 USD/h 0.2137 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1102 USD/h 0.2137 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0192 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0662 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0943 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0947 USD/h 0.2138 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1167 USD/h 0.2187 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.055 USD/h 0.2188 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0828 USD/h 0.2249 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0246 USD/h 0.2253 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0702 USD/h 0.2253 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0434 USD/h 0.2292 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0539 USD/h 0.2292 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.021 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0778 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0794 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0815 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0953 USD/h 0.2343 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0818 USD/h 0.235 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0546 USD/h 0.236 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1017 USD/h 0.2396 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0687 USD/h 0.2492 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.07 USD/h 0.2494 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0849 USD/h 0.2494 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0503 USD/h 0.2502 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1199 USD/h 0.2502 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.0356 USD/h 0.2503 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0468 USD/h 0.2506 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0893 USD/h 0.2545 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.1488 USD/h 0.2612 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0815 USD/h 0.2718 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1272 USD/h 0.2756 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0685 USD/h 0.2778 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0621 USD/h 0.3083 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0492 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 dedicated general-purpose virtual machine offering balanced memory-to-CPU ratios for standard development and light web serving workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n2-standard-4 is a general-purpose virtual machine featuring 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM, powered by a dedicated 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processor. Operating on the x86_64 architecture with 2 physical cores and hyper-threading, it includes 33 MB of L3 cache and supports AVX-512 instructions. The server does not bundle local storage, public IPv4 addresses, or GPU hardware. In benchmark testing, the instance generally performs in the bottom 25% for CPU and memory bandwidth tasks, though it achieves average results in single-threaded gzip compression. Conversely, multi-threaded decompression and image processing benchmarks rank in the bottom 10%. Given this performance profile, the n2-standard-4 is best utilized for light general-purpose workloads, basic web serving, and development environments where dedicated CPU allocation is required but extreme throughput is not critical.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.254Score
      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 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.176 50.00% 50.00% -58.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,148,949 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.184 20.00% 20.00% -28.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,979 2,418 0.818 10.00% 10.00% -1.99%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,957 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.286 10.00% 10.00% -11.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,973 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.834 10.00% 10.00% -1.80%

      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

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

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