The n2-highcpu-2 is a general purpose instance in the n2 family with 2 vCPU and 2 GiB of memory on Intel Cascade Lake. It costs $52.34 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 40 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 $754.03 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 83% across sizes.
2.5g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
1.8 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $52.34 | $31.41 | 40% | 5 | |
| $52.34 | $31.39 | 40% | 3 | |
| $52.34 | $31.39 | 40% | 2 | |
| $52.34 | $31.39 | 40% | 3 | |
| $57.57 | $34.52 | 40% | 6 | |
| $57.57 | $16.35 | 72% | 7 | |
| $57.57 | $13.04 | 77% | 2 | |
| $57.62 | $26.41 | 54% | 1 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n2-highcpu-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