B16pls_v2 by Microsoft Azure

B16pls_v2 is a Bpsv2 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 16 vCPUs, 32 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2853 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
32 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
28,891
(All-cores)
1,823
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_B16pls_v2
Name
B16pls_v2
API Reference
Standard_B16pls_v2
Description
Bpsv2 family [ARM processor] [Low Memory] [Premium Storage capable] 16 vCPUs
Family
Bpsv2
Hw Virt
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-06T14:47:08.888569

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.2853 USD/h 0.317 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.317 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.317 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.3825 USD/h 0.425 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.4284 USD/h 0.476 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.4284 USD/h 0.476 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.4284 USD/h 0.476 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.4284 USD/h 0.476 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.4383 USD/h 0.487 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.4689 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.4689 USD/h 0.521 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.4797 USD/h 0.533 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.4268 USD/h 0.538 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.4896 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.4896 USD/h 0.544 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.5103 USD/h 0.567 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.5139 USD/h 0.571 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.5139 USD/h 0.571 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.5382 USD/h 0.598 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.5409 USD/h 0.601 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.5409 USD/h 0.601 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.5508 USD/h 0.612 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.5913 USD/h 0.657 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Burstable
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Manufacturer
Ampere
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-N1
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
16 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, lrcpc, dcpop, asimddp
Ecpus
15.9
Scalability
99.38

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
32 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
32 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      Server Description

      A burstable ARM64 virtual machine offering sixteen cores and balanced multi-threaded performance for variable, cost-conscious workloads.

      Burstable & BudgetCompute Optimized

      Microsoft Azure B16pls_v2 is an ARM-based burstable virtual machine from the Bpsv2 family, utilizing 16 vCPUs and 16 physical cores powered by an Ampere Neoverse-N1 processor at 3.0 GHz. It features 32.0 GB of RAM, translating to 2.0 GB per core, with no local storage or GPU hardware. Operating on the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, this instance provides average multi-core performance, as shown by a Geekbench multi-core score of 9532.0 and a Passmark CPU score of 11631.0. While single-threaded tasks like bzip3 decompression and text processing show weaker benchmark results, the server performs reliably in multi-threaded operations, static web serving, and Redis database transactions. Its burstable CPU allocation model offers a cost-effective solution for variable workloads such as software compilation and web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.99Score
      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) 2,013,773 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 1.1 50.00% 50.00% +4.90%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 12,343,674 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 1 20.00% 20.00% 0.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,921 2,417 0.79 10.00% 10.00% -2.30%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 140,686 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,334 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,102

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 9,532

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 11631
      Compression
      		 90378
      Encryption
      		 2593
      Extended Instructions
      		 11876
      Floating Point Maths
      		 57178
      Integer Maths
      		 75135
      Physics
      		 1995
      Prime Numbers
      		 121
      Single Threaded
      		 1334
      String Sorting
      		 54436

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1921
      Database Operations
      		 11350
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 11379
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9150
      Memory Write
      		 15021

      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

      Alternatives

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      B2pls_v2 24 GiB0
      B2ps_v2 28 GiB0
      B4pls_v2 48 GiB0
      B4ps_v2 416 GiB0
      B8pls_v2 816 GiB0
      B8ps_v2 832 GiB0

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