Compare GCP Instances
| e2-standard-2 | n4-standard-2 |
| Cost optimized with burstable capabilities. Low-traffic web servers, Small databases, Development and test environments. e – Economic general purpose with burstable capabilities 2 – Generation standard – 4x 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. n – General purpose 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 2 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | General-purpose |
| Efficient Instance, 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM | 2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM |
| 2 | 2 |
| 8 GiB | 8 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Emerald Rapids |
| 26255 | 44377 |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC |
| 1.00x | 1.32x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-standard-2 | n4-standard-2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.0670 | 0.0907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.0738 | 0.0999 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.0755 | 0.0999 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.0755 | 0.0999 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.0776 | 0.0999 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.0777 | 0.0999 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.0777 | 0.1022 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.0791 | 0.1034 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.0791 | 0.1050 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.0805 | 0.1052 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.0805 | 0.1052 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.0704 | 0.0907 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.0805 | 0.1070 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.0805 | 0.1070 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.0808 | 0.1070 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.0811 | 0.1090 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.0814 | 0.1090 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.0827 | 0.1097 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.0860 | 0.1102 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.0860 | 0.1119 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.0860 | 0.1134 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.0863 | 0.1165 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.0730 | 0.0943 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.0863 | 0.1165 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.0863 | 0.1165 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.0864 | 0.1179 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.0878 | 0.1188 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.0901 | 0.1220 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.0938 | 0.1269 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.0951 | 0.1297 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.0958 | 0.1440 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.1064 | 0.1451 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.1072 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.0737 | 0.0943 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.0737 | 0.0952 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.0737 | 0.0952 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.0738 | 0.0952 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.0738 | 0.0989 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.0738 | 0.0998 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.0670 | 0.0907 |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.0670 | n/a |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.0670 | 0.0907 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.0907 |