The n1-standard-2 is a general purpose instance in the n1 family with 2 vCPU and 7.5 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $69.35 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 $1,213 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 277% across sizes.
3.2g 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.
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| $69.35 | $35.65 | 49% | 3 | |
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| $76.28 | $41.95 | 45% | 8 | |
| $76.29 | $6.86 | 91% | 9 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n1-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