The n4-standard-2 is a general purpose instance in the n4 family with 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Sapphire Rapids. It costs $66.21 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 41 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 $1,041 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 56% across sizes.
2.7g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
2 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 27× the cleanest.
| $66.21 | $37.30 | 44% | 3 | |
| $66.21 | $35.39 | 47% | 4 | |
| $66.21 | $37.30 | 44% | 2 | |
| $66.21 | $37.30 | 44% | 3 | |
| $66.21 | $22.24 | 66% | 5 | |
| $68.86 | $14.99 | 78% | 8 | |
| $68.86 | $21.11 | 69% | 8 | |
| $69.52 | $27.42 | 61% | 5 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n4-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