ecs.n4.large by Alibaba Cloud

ecs.n4.large is a ecs.n4 family (2 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage) server offered by Alibaba Cloud with 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0085 USD per hour.
2 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,200
(All-cores)
1,108
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
alicloud
Name
ecs.n4.large
Description
ecs.n4 family (2 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM, 0 GB storage)
Family
ecs.n4
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-15T14:15:55.680939

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Virginia (US) / us-east-1
0.0085 USD/h 0.047 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / eu-central-1
0.0097 USD/h 0.054 USD/h
Singapore (SG) / ap-southeast-1
0.012 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
Hong Kong (HK) / cn-hongkong
- 0.06 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
2
Hypervisor
KVM
CPU Allocation
Shared
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.5 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8163
CPU L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
32 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
33 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
33 MiB
CPU Flags
fpu, vme, de, pse, tsc, msr, pae, mce, cx8, apic, sep, mtrr, pge, mca, cmov, pat, pse36, clflush, mmx, fxsr, sse, sse2, ss, ht, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, tsc_deadline_timer, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, mpx, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512cd, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, arat
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Network Speed Baseline
      0.5 Gbps
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A budget-friendly, shared-core virtual machine designed for lightweight utility workloads, development environments, and basic web serving tasks.

      Burstable & BudgetGeneral Purpose

      Alibaba Cloud ecs.n4.large is an entry-level, KVM-based virtual machine featuring 2 vCPUs and 4.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8163 processor running at 2.5 GHz. Built on the x86_64 architecture, this instance utilizes a shared CPU allocation model and does not include local storage or dedicated GPU resources. Benchmark data indicates modest performance, with a stress-ng single-core score of 1107.98 and a multi-core score of 2199.5, alongside a static web serving throughput of 1.82 GB/sec. The instance is a budget-friendly option for low-intensity workloads, but introduces tradeoffs in CPU consistency and network throughput. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, development environments, and basic background tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.156Score
      Precomputed compound score for Cache Intensive workloads. A weighted average (geometric mean) of benchmark scores compared to their medians: score = ∏ (x_i / m_i)^(w_i / Σw). The score of 1.0 represents a synthetic baseline server with the median performance of each component benchmark; 0.5 means roughly half the performance; and 2.0 means twice the performance of that reference profile. Component weights: 50% Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET), 20% Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET), 10% PassMark Memory Mark (composite), 10% Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3), 10% PassMark single-thread CPU. Rationale for component selection: In-memory key-value store workload, mixing direct Redis performance metrics with memory speed and latency benchmarks, and single-core CPU performance profiles.
      Component Score Weight Impact
      Raw Reference Normalized Target Actual
      Redis RPS (pipeline=1, SET) 178,420 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0931 50.00% 50.00% -69.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,440,758 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.123 20.00% 20.00% -34.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 975 2,418 0.403 10.00% 10.00% -8.69%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,970 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.286 10.00% 10.00% -11.80%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,688 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.714 10.00% 10.00% -3.31%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 957

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,719

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 2677
      Compression
      		 33843
      Encryption
      		 824
      Extended Instructions
      		 2566
      Floating Point Maths
      		 4856
      Integer Maths
      		 6393
      Physics
      		 363
      Prime Numbers
      		 22
      Single Threaded
      		 1688
      String Sorting
      		 4487

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 975
      Database Operations
      		 565
      Memory Latency
      		 79
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19595
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6513
      Memory Write
      		 7024

      Stress-ng Raw Scores

      Stress-ng Relative Multicore Performance

      LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

      LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

      Static Web Server

      Redis

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