Compare GCP Instances
| e2-highmem-16 | c4-standard-16 |
| Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – 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 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 16 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM | 16 vCPUs, 60 GB RAM |
| 16 | 16 |
| 128 GiB | 60 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids |
| 208433 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 524288 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 18000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.07x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-highmem-16 | c4-standard-16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.7232 | 0.7907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.7962 | 0.8706 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.8145 | 0.8706 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.8145 | 0.8706 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.8374 | 0.8706 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.8389 | 0.8706 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.8389 | 0.8905 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.8534 | 0.9014 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.8534 | 0.9155 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.8686 | 0.9172 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.8686 | 0.9172 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.7594 | 0.7907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.8686 | 0.9330 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.8686 | 0.9330 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.8721 | 0.9330 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.8751 | 0.9505 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.8787 | 0.9505 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.8921 | 0.9567 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.9270 | 0.9607 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.9270 | 0.9755 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.9270 | 0.9884 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.9317 | 1.0154 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.7883 | 0.8223 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.9317 | 1.0154 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.9317 | 1.0154 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.9329 | 1.0279 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.9474 | 1.0358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.9724 | 1.0632 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 1.0119 | 1.1061 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 1.0261 | 1.1307 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 1.0342 | 1.2555 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 1.1479 | 1.2651 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 1.1571 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.7955 | 0.8223 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.7956 | 0.8302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.7956 | 0.8302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.7961 | 0.8302 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.7961 | 0.8618 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.7961 | 0.8697 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.7232 | 0.7907 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.7232 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.7232 | 0.7907 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.7907 |