The n2-standard-2 is a general purpose instance in the n2 family with 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Cascade Lake. It costs $70.90 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 $1,021 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.
3.1g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
2.3 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $70.90 | $42.53 | 40% | 3 | |
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| $70.90 | $42.54 | 40% | 6 | |
| $77.99 | $46.77 | 40% | 7 | |
| $77.99 | $22.15 | 72% | 9 | |
| $77.99 | $17.66 | 77% | 3 | |
| $78.05 | $21.69 | 72% | 6 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n2-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