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
2026-10-28T23:37:32.091217

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.011 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
0.0112 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0112 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0112 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0116 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0245 USD/h 0.0497 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0112 USD/h 0.05 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0115 USD/h 0.051 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0115 USD/h 0.051 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0202 USD/h 0.0519 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0117 USD/h 0.052 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0117 USD/h 0.052 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0123 USD/h 0.0546 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0101 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0123 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0123 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0123 USD/h 0.0547 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0123 USD/h 0.0549 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0127 USD/h 0.0566 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.0128 USD/h 0.0568 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0128 USD/h 0.057 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0128 USD/h 0.057 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.013 USD/h 0.0577 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0132 USD/h 0.059 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0134 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0134 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0134 USD/h 0.0597 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0135 USD/h 0.06 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0139 USD/h 0.062 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.014 USD/h 0.0625 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.014 USD/h 0.0625 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0141 USD/h 0.063 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0141 USD/h 0.063 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.0065 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0146 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0146 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0146 USD/h 0.065 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0147 USD/h 0.0656 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.015 USD/h 0.0667 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0153 USD/h 0.0684 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0156 USD/h 0.0696 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0161 USD/h 0.0718 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0162 USD/h 0.072 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0166 USD/h 0.0738 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0166 USD/h 0.0741 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0182 USD/h 0.0812 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0182 USD/h 0.0812 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0188 USD/h 0.0836 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0209 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    16 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    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

    0.094Score
    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 1,919,289 ops/sec 0.051 50.00% 50.00% -77.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 661,137 ops/sec 11,728,058 ops/sec 0.055 20.00% 20.00% -44.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 760 2,416 0.32 10.00% 10.00% -11.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 25,004 MB/sec 108,466 MB/sec 0.23 10.00% 10.00% -14.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,574 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 1,187
    Compression
    		 15,734
    Encryption
    		 288
    Extended Instructions
    		 877
    Floating Point Maths
    		 2,903
    Integer Maths
    		 3,386
    Physics
    		 167
    Prime Numbers
    		 11
    Single Threaded
    		 1,574
    String Sorting
    		 2,119

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 762
    Database Operations
    		 499
    Memory Latency
    		 73
    Memory Read Cached
    		 18,440
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 6,524
    Memory Write
    		 5,716

    Stress-ng Stressors

    CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
    atomic
    		 418.18 418.18 1.00×
    bitops
    		 81,351 81,351 1.00×
    branch
    		 105,390 105,390 1.00×
    funccall
    		 358.59 358.59 1.00×
    funcret
    		 7,198 7,198 1.00×
    hash
    		 84,443 84,443 1.00×
    intmath
    		 14,062 14,062 1.00×
    nop
    		 119,226 119,226 1.00×
    prime
    		 211,095 211,095 1.00×
    rotate
    		 63,946 63,946 1.00×
    str
    		 475,448 475,448 1.00×
    wcs
    		 293,197 293,197 1.00×
    CryptographySingleMultiScaling
    crypt
    		 1,557 1,557 1.00×
    CompressionSingleMultiScaling
    jpeg
    		 351.52 351.52 1.00×
    zlib
    		 37.51 37.51 1.00×
    HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
    clock
    		 12,876 12,876 1.00×
    clone
    		 380.59 380.59 1.00×
    context
    		 1,318 1,318 1.00×
    cpu-sched
    		 57.6 57.6 1.00×
    eventfd
    		 55,303 55,303 1.00×
    fault
    		 5,168 5,168 1.00×
    fork
    		 3,206 3,206 1.00×
    getrandom
    		 29,608 29,608 1.00×
    hrtimers
    		 97,172 97,172 1.00×
    mprotect
    		 175,253 175,253 1.00×
    mtx
    		 35,960,757 35,960,757 1.00×
    munmap
    		 1,999 1,999 1.00×
    null
    		 139,443 139,443 1.00×
    pipe
    		 359,693 359,693 1.00×
    priv-instr
    		 322,894 322,894 1.00×
    resched
    		 15,105 15,105 1.00×
    switch
    		 145,545 145,545 1.00×
    timermix
    		 159,695 159,695 1.00×
    tlb-shootdown
    		 2,613 2,613 1.00×
    tsc
    		 675,959 675,959 1.00×
    usersyscall
    		 214,695 214,695 1.00×
    vdso
    		 52,783,033 52,783,033 1.00×
    vfork
    		 24,668 24,668 1.00×
    x86syscall
    		 1,521,019 1,521,019 1.00×
    yield
    		 491,093 491,093 1.00×
    zero
    		 1,044,277 1,044,277 1.00×
    CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
    eigen
    		 10,065 10,065 1.00×
    expmath
    		 1,768 1,768 1.00×
    fma
    		 416,148 416,148 1.00×
    fp
    		 81.39 81.39 1.00×
    fractal
    		 3.6 3.6 1.00×
    hyperbolic
    		 1,930 1,930 1.00×
    logmath
    		 3,069 3,069 1.00×
    matrix
    		 2,522 2,522 1.00×
    matrix-3d
    		 463.7 463.7 1.00×
    monte-carlo
    		 74.68 74.68 1.00×
    mpfr
    		 770.21 770.21 1.00×
    powmath
    		 1,052 1,052 1.00×
    trig
    		 1,257 1,257 1.00×
    veccmp
    		 9,322 9,322 1.00×
    vecfp
    		 581.79 581.79 1.00×
    vecmath
    		 1,467 1,467 1.00×
    vecshuf
    		 361.91 361.91 1.00×
    vecwide
    		 16,704 16,704 1.00×
    AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
    bitonicsort
    		 4.8 4.8 1.00×
    bsearch
    		 152.77 152.77 1.00×
    bubblesort
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    fibsearch
    		 183.04 183.04 1.00×
    heapsort
    		 5.4 5.4 1.00×
    hsearch
    		 2,943 2,943 1.00×
    insertionsort
    		 5.2 5.2 1.00×
    malloc
    		 1,049,605 1,049,605 1.00×
    mcontend
    		 221.41 221.41 1.00×
    mergesort
    		 17.2 17.2 1.00×
    qsort
    		 12.2 12.2 1.00×
    skiplist
    		 3,964 3,964 1.00×
    tree
    		 0.8 0.8 1.00×
    MemorySingleMultiScaling
    cache
    		 147,346 147,346 1.00×
    cachehammer
    		 315,315 315,315 1.00×
    cacheline
    		 10.29 10.29 1.00×
    l1cache
    		 128.79 128.79 1.00×
    memcpy
    		 281.86 281.86 1.00×
    memrate
    		 0.78 0.78 1.00×
    memthrash
    		 42.18 42.18 1.00×
    ptr-chase
    		 10,556,827 10,556,827 1.00×
    spinmem
    		 0.4 0.4 1.00×
    stream
    		 23.44 23.44 1.00×
    vm
    		 29,690 29,690 1.00×

    LLM Inference Speed for Prompt Processing

    LLM Inference Speed for Text Generation

    Static Web Server

    Redis

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