Google Compute Engine Instance Types

GCE

Instance types offered by Google Compute Engine.

Note: This is not an exhaustive list of plans and instance types offered by Google Compute Engine. Only plans that have been tested by VPSBenchmarks or may be tested in the future are included.

General purpose

E2 Shared cores

Unlike predefined machine types and custom machine types, shared-core machine types are not billed on their individual resources. Each machine type has a defined price for both vCPUs and memory. E2 shared-core machines with committed use discount contracts consume cores in the following manner:
e2-micro: 0.25 cores
e2-small: 0.50 cores
e2-medium: 1.0 cores

Cost per vCPU: $6.11
RAM per vCPU: 1GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Mix
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing#general-purpose_machine_type_family
Plans: e2-medium, e2-small
E2 Standard

The E2 machine series has a predefined CPU platform, running either an Intel processor or the second generation AMD EPYC Rome processor. E2 offers 2 vCPUs for short periods of bursting.

Cost per vCPU: $24.45
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Mix
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types
N2 High memory

N2 machine series has 8 GB of memory per vCPU, up to 128 vCPUs, and is available on the Intel Ice Lake and Cascade Lake CPU platforms.

Cost per vCPU: $38.26
RAM per vCPU: 8GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: yes
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines#n2-high-mem
N2 Standard

N2 machine series has up to 128 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory per vCPU, and is available on the Intel Ice Lake and Cascade Lake CPU platforms.

Cost per vCPU: $28.36
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types
N2D Standard

N2D machine series has up to 224 vCPUs, 8 GB of memory per vCPU, and is available on second generation AMD EPYC Rome and third generation AMD EPYC Milan platforms.

Cost per vCPU: $24.67
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types
Plans: n2d-standard-2

Compute optimized

C2 Standard

The C2 series enables the highest performance per core and the highest frequency for compute-bound workloads using Intel 3.9 GHz Cascade Lake processors.

Cost per vCPU: $30.48
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/compute-optimized-machines
C2D Standard

The C2D machine series provides the largest VM sizes and are best-suited for high-performance computing (HPC). They use the third generation AMD EPYC Milan platform

Cost per vCPU: $33.14
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Amd
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/compute-optimized-machines
Plans: c2d-standard-2
C3 High CPU

The C3 high CPU instances are powered by the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor Sapphire Rapids CPU platform and feature 2GB RAM per vCPU.

Cost per vCPU: $31.50
RAM per vCPU: 2GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-c3-machines-with-googles-custom-intel-ipu
Plans: c3-highcpu-4
C4 High CPU

C4 VMs are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Emerald Rapids) and Titanium. The C4 machine series is designed to deliver price-performance and enterprise-grade reliability along with a maintenance experience for your most demanding workloads. Appropriate workloads include web and app serving, game servers, databases and caches, video streaming, data analytics, network appliances, and CPU-based ML inference.

Cost per vCPU: $31.00
RAM per vCPU: 2GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: yes
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines#c4_series
Plans: c4-highcpu-2

General Purpose

C4 Standard

C4 is powered by the 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (code-named Emerald Rapids). C4 offers a sustained, all-core turbo frequency of 3.1 GHz, 1.5 TB of DDR5 memory, and supports up to 200 Gbps of per VM Tier_1 networking performance.

Cost per vCPU: $0.05
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines
Plans: c4-standard-8
N4 Standard

N4 is powered by the 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (code-named Emerald Rapids). N4 offers a sustained, all-core turbo frequency of 2.9 GHz, 640 GB of DDR5 memory, and up to 50 Gbps of standard network bandwidth.

Cost per vCPU: $0.05
RAM per vCPU: 4GB
Hourly billing: yes
CPU type: Intel
Shared CPU: no
Storage included: no
Provider page for instance type: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines
Plans: n4-standard-8

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