F1 by Microsoft Azure

F1 is a F family [Intel processor] 1 vCPU server offered by Microsoft Azure with 1 vCPUs, 2 GiB of memory and 16 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0065 USD per hour.
1 vCPU
2 GiB Memory
16 GB Storage
Spare SCore
804
(All-cores)
804
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F1
Name
F1
API Reference
Standard_F1
Description
F family [Intel processor] 1 vCPU
Family
F
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
27
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-09-13T16:46:12.310262

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.01 USD/h 0.049 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.049 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.049 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0101 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0101 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0102 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0107 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0306 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0102 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0104 USD/h 0.051 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0104 USD/h 0.051 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0252 USD/h 0.0519 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0106 USD/h 0.052 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0106 USD/h 0.052 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0111 USD/h 0.0546 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0106 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0111 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0111 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0111 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0112 USD/h 0.0549 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0115 USD/h 0.0566 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0116 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0116 USD/h 0.057 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0116 USD/h 0.057 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.0118 USD/h 0.0577 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.012 USD/h 0.059 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0122 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0122 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0122 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0122 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0126 USD/h 0.062 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0127 USD/h 0.0625 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0127 USD/h 0.0625 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0128 USD/h 0.063 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0128 USD/h 0.063 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0065 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0132 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0132 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0132 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0134 USD/h 0.0656 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0136 USD/h 0.0667 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0139 USD/h 0.0684 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0142 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0146 USD/h 0.0718 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0147 USD/h 0.072 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.015 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0151 USD/h 0.0741 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0165 USD/h 0.0812 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0165 USD/h 0.0812 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0171 USD/h 0.0836 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.019 USD/h 0.0933 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
1
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
1
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
E5-2673 v4
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
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
256 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
50 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
50 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, syscall, nx, pdpe1gb, rdtscp, lm, constant_tsc, rep_good, nopl, xtopology, cpuid, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, pti, fsgsbase, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, rdseed, adx, smap, xsaveopt, md_clear
Ecpus
1
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
2 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
2 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    16 GB
    Storages
    • 16 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    A single-core, low-resource virtual machine with dedicated Intel Xeon processing and local storage for basic utility and testing workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F1 is an entry-level virtual machine in the F-family, utilizing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. It is equipped with a single dedicated Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 core running at 2.3 GHz on the x86_64 architecture. The hardware configuration includes 2.0 GB of RAM and 16 GB of local storage, with no integrated GPU or complimentary public IPv4 addresses. Across synthetic benchmarks, the F1 consistently ranks in the bottom 10% of tested instances, with a stress-ng CPU score of 804.38 and a Passmark CPU score of 1187.46. Memory performance is also modest, yielding a large-block read bandwidth of 6.86 GB/sec. This instance provides a low-cost, minimal-resource environment suitable for basic utility tasks, lightweight static web serving, or simple development and testing workloads that do not demand high memory or parallel processing capabilities.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.093Score
    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) 96,434 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.0503 50.00% 50.00% -77.60%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 661,137 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.0566 20.00% 20.00% -43.70%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 762.5 2,418 0.315 10.00% 10.00% -10.90%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 25,004 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.231 10.00% 10.00% -13.60%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,574 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.665 10.00% 10.00% -4.00%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1187
    Compression
    		 15734
    Encryption
    		 288
    Extended Instructions
    		 877
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2903
    Integer Maths
    		 3386
    Physics
    		 167
    Prime Numbers
    		 11
    Single Threaded
    		 1574
    String Sorting
    		 2119

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 762
    Database Operations
    		 499
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18440
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6524
    Memory Write
    		 5716

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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