The e2-standard-2 is a general purpose instance in the e2 family with 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $48.92 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 42 regions.
The list price has not changed in this window. Spot moves with demand and is read every few minutes.
First year, 3 instances
Spot saves $704.28 a year
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU varies by 979% across sizes.
3.3g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
2.4 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $48.92 | $25.97 | 47% | 6 | |
| $48.92 | $29.35 | 40% | 3 | |
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| $48.92 | $29.35 | 40% | 4 | |
| $51.36 | $13.74 | 73% | 6 | |
| $53.32 | $19.22 | 64% | 6 | |
| $53.81 | $28.94 | 46% | 8 | |
| $53.81 | $19.02 | 65% | 10 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/e2-standard-2?region=us-central1"
List prices from Google Cloud in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. Google Cloud pricing page