n4d-standard-8 by Google Compute Engine
Specifications and performance for Google Compute Engine - n4d-standard-8
Instance Type: N4D Standard
This plan belongs to the Google Compute Engine N4D Standard server line (General Purpose).
Instance Type Description
N4D standard general-purpose instances with 4 GiB of memory per vCPU. Storage and network usage are billed separately.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | $0.04 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | 4GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | AMD |
| Shared CPU | no |
| Storage included | no |
See also all Google Compute Engine instance types.
"n4d-standard-8" Plan Specifications
| Provider | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose |
| Price per month |
$247.32
Compute only; excludes all storage and network charges. Google Cloud published Iowa (us-central1) on-demand rate, USD 0.3388/hour; monthly equivalent based on 730 hours. Warning: storage costs are not included in this price.
Warning: network bandwidth costs are not included in this price.
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| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes: $0.3388/hour |
| Disk GB | 0 |
| Num Cores | 8 |
| Memory GB | 32 |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 0 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | Yes |
Badges of Quality
Badges are awards granted to VPS plans that meet certain quality criteria.
| Twenty Requests Per Core | Google Compute Engine - n4d-standard-8 serves more than 20 HTTP requests per second per vCPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Over 1300 Geekbench6 Score | Google Compute Engine - n4d-standard-8 serves got a Geekbench6 single core score over 1300 | |
| Stable Performance | Google Compute Engine - n4d-standard-8 performance is very stable over long periods of time |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst. The grades below are from the latest public performance trial run on this plan, started on Oct 20 2026.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 62
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Google Compute Engine - n4d-standard-8. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Yabs | Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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| Review | Review | Review | Review | Review |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
Performance trials run on the n4d-standard-8 plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the n4d-standard-8 plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20 2026 | AMD EPYC 9B45 | South Carolina, USA | C |