The n4a-standard-2 is a general purpose instance in the n4a family with 2 vCPU and 8 GiB of memory on Intel Skylake. It costs $56.21 a month on-demand in us-central1 (Iowa) and is offered in 10 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 $1,257 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.
3.4g CO₂ an hour in us-central1
2.5 kg a month. Grid 243 g per kWh.
Lowest-carbon regions for this type. The dirtiest emits 4× the cleanest.
| $56.21 | $21.29 | 62% | 3 | |
| $56.21 | $22.34 | 60% | 3 | |
| $56.21 | $22.34 | 60% | 4 | |
| $56.21 | $28.55 | 49% | 5 | |
| $59.01 | $28.63 | 51% | 7 | |
| $61.87 | $37.10 | 40% | 3 | |
| $61.87 | $22.37 | 64% | 10 | |
| $64.06 | $34.13 | 47% | 4 |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/gcp/n4a-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