Compare GCP Instances
| n1-highcpu-2 | c4a-standard-2 |
| High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. n – General purpose 1 – Generation highcpu – 1-2x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – 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 2 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 2 vCPUs, 1.8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 1.8 GiB | 8 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, Haswell, Sandy Bridge, and Ivy Bridge | Google Axion |
| 26348 | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | no |
| 0.8 | |
| 0.6 | |
| 0.4 | |
| yes | |
| yes | yes |
| yes | no |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 16 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI (PD, Local SSD) NVMe (Local SSD) | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 9000 GB | 6000 GB |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.20x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | n1-highcpu-2 | c4a-standard-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0779 | 0.0898 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0851 | 0.0989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0851 | 0.1011 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0851 | 0.1024 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0851 | 0.1040 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0857 | 0.1060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0874 | 0.1060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0910 | 0.1060 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.0910 | 0.1079 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.0910 | 0.1087 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.0913 | 0.1108 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0779 | 0.0898 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.0913 | 0.1153 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.0928 | 0.1167 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.0953 | 0.1284 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.0991 | 0.1437 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1005 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1005 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1125 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0780 | 0.0934 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0780 | 0.0943 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0780 | 0.0943 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0780 | 0.0979 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0798 | 0.0989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0798 | 0.0989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0820 | 0.0989 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0708 | 0.0898 |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | 0.0708 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0708 | 0.0898 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.0898 |