Compare GCP Instances
| e2-standard-4 | g2-standard-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 standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs | Accelerator Optimized for Graphics-intensive workloads, Video streaming and transcoding, remote virtual workstations, digital twins Inference. g – Graphics-intensive workloads 2 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| Cost optimized | Accelerator optimized |
| Efficient Instance, 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM | Graphics Optimized: 1 NVIDIA L4 GPU, 4 vCPUs, 16GB RAM |
| 4 | 4 |
| 16 GiB | 16 GiB |
| x86_64 | x86_64 |
| Intel Skylake, Broadwell, and Haswell, AMD EPYC Rome and EPYC Milan | Intel Cascade Lake |
| 52043 | 56273 |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| 1 | |
| nvidia-l4 | |
| 24 | |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| no | yes |
| yes | yes |
| no | no |
| 128 | 128 |
| 263168 GB | 263168 GB |
| SCSI | NVMe |
| no | yes |
| 3000 GB | |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | yes |
| gVNIC, VirtIO-Net | gVNIC, VirtIO-Net |
| 1.00x | 5.08x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | e2-standard-4 | g2-standard-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1340 | 0.7358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.1476 | 0.8720 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.1509 | 0.9077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.1509 | 0.9077 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.1552 | 0.9757 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.1555 | 1.1309 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.1555 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.1581 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.1582 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.1610 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.1610 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1407 | 0.7429 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.1610 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.1610 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.1616 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.1622 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.1628 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.1653 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.1719 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.1719 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.1719 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.1727 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.1461 | 0.7783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.1727 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.1727 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.1729 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.1756 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.1802 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.1875 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.1902 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.1917 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.2127 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-39) | 0.2144 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.1474 | 0.7783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.1474 | 0.7783 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.1474 | 0.7961 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.1475 | 0.8048 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.1475 | 0.8184 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.1475 | 0.8330 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1340 | n/a |
| North America | Ohio (us-east5) | 0.1340 | n/a |
| North America | Oregon (us-west1) | n/a | 0.7068 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1340 | 0.7068 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | n/a | 0.7045 |
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