Compare GCP Instances
| e2-highcpu-4 | c3-highmem-4 |
| Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs | High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 3 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM |
| 4 | 4 |
| 4 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Sapphire Rapids |
| 51937 | 80742 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 12000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 2.54x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-highcpu-4 | c3-highmem-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0989 | 0.2646 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1089 | 0.3122 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1114 | 0.3122 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1114 | 0.3181 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1146 | 0.3181 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1148 | 0.3215 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1148 | 0.3265 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1167 | 0.3398 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1168 | 0.3558 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1188 | 0.4234 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1188 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1039 | 0.2646 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1188 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1188 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1193 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1197 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1202 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1221 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1271 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1271 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1271 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1275 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1078 | 0.2752 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1275 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1275 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.1276 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.1296 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.1330 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.1384 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.1404 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.1415 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.1571 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.1583 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1088 | 0.2752 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1088 | 0.2778 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1088 | 0.2914 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1089 | 0.2980 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1089 | 0.3017 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1089 | 0.3122 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0989 | 0.2646 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.0989 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0989 | 0.2646 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.2646 |