Host machine types

List of available Google Cloud Compute Engine machine types with their characteristics.

The following table shows the list of the available Google Cloud Compute Engine machine types that you can use to create a virtual machine sandbox host:

Name	Virtual CPUs	Memory (GB)
f1-micro	0.2	0.6
g1-small	0.5	1.7
e2-micro	0.25	1
e2-small	0.5	2
e2-medium	1	4
e2-standard-2	2	8
e2-standard-4	6	16
e2-standard-8	8	32
e2-standard-16	16	64
e2-standard-32	32	128
e2-highmem-2	2	16
e2-highmem-4	4	32
e2-highmem-8	8	64
e2-highmem-16	16	128
e2-highcpu-2	2	2
e2-highcpu-4	4	4
e2-highcpu-8	8	8
e2-highcpu-16	16	16
e2-highcpu-32	32	32
n1-standard-1	1	3.75
n1-standard-2	2	7.50
n1-standard-4	4	15
n1-standard-8	8	30
n1-highcpu-2	2	1.8
n1-highcpu-4	4	3.6
n1-highcpu-8	8	7.2
n1-highcpu-16	16	14.4
n1-highcpu-32	32	28.8
n1-highmem-2	2	13
n1-highmem-4	4	26
n1-highmem-8	8	52
n1-highmem-16	16	104
n1-highmem-32	32	208
n2-standard-2	2	8
n2-standard-4	4	16
n2-standard-8	8	32
n2-standard-16	16	64
n2-standard-32	32	128
n2-highmem-2	2	16
n2-highmem-4	4	32
n2-highmem-8	8	64
n2-highmem-16	16	128
n2-highmem-32	32	256
n2-highcpu-2	2	2
n2-highcpu-4	4	4
n2-highcpu-8	8	8
n2-highcpu-16	16	16
n2-highcpu-32	32	32
n2d-standard-2	2	8
n2d-standard-4	4	16
n2d-standard-8	8	32
n2d-standard-16	16	64
n2d-standard-32	32	128
n2d-highmem-2	2	16
n2d-highmem-4	4	32
n2d-highmem-8	8	64
n2d-highmem-16	16	128
n2d-highmem-32	32	256
n2d-highcpu-2	2	2
n2d-highcpu-4	4	4
n2d-highcpu-8	8	8
n2d-highcpu-16	16	16
n2d-highcpu-32	32	32

Choose your appropriate machine type

Instruqt charges based on resource usage, so make sure you choose the appropriate machine type for your workloads. An n1-standard-2 machine type is a good place to start for most use cases.

Use the free -m command on Linux hosts to view the current memory usage.