F4 by Microsoft Azure

F4 is a F family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs server offered by Microsoft Azure with 4 vCPUs, 8 GiB of memory and 66 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.026 USD per hour.

The F4 server is equipped with 4 logical CPU cores on 4 Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 physical CPU cores, 8 GiB of memory, 66 GB of storage, and no GPU. Additional block storage can be attached as needed.

We have run 53 frameworks on the F4 server, and collected 444 performance metrics. Depending on your use case, you might want to look at our Memory bandwidth, Compression algo, or OpenSSL speed benchmarks, among others. As a baseline example, the multi-core Geekbench6 compound score suggests that the F4 server is 1.1416x faster than the baseline Dell Precision 3460 with a Core i7-12700 processor.

The pricing for F4 servers starts at 0.026 USD per hour, but the actual price depends on the selected region, zone and server allocation method (e.g. on-demand versus spot pricing options): currently, we track the prices in 264 regions and zones every 5 minutes, and the maximum price stands at 0.373 USD.

The F4 server is offered by Microsoft Azure, founded in 2008, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The F4 server is available in 264 availability zones of the following 56 regions: Australia Central 2 (AU), UK South (GB), Central India (IN), North Central US (US), West US 3 (US), France Central (FR), Korea Central (KR), Korea South (KR), West US 2 (US), Indonesia Central (ID), Malaysia West (MY), Italy North (IT), Sweden Central (SE), West Europe (NL), Poland Central (PL), Southeast Asia (SG), Canada East (CA), Central US (US), Mexico Central (ZA), South Central US (US), West Central US (US), West India (IN), East US (US), Israel Central (IL), UAE North (AE), South India (IN), Austria East (AT), Germany West Central (DE), Switzerland North (CH), Japan West (JP), UK West (GB), Spain Central (ES), Qatar Central (QA), Australia Central (AU), France South (FR), Norway East (NO), Japan East (JP), Australia East (AU), Australia Southeast (AU), South Africa North (ZA), East Asia (HK), New Zealand North (NZ), Germany North (DE), Chile Central (CL), North Europe (IE), Canada Central (CA), UAE Central (AE), Brazil South (BR), East US 2 (US), South Africa West (ZA), Switzerland West (CH), Norway West (NO), Brazil Southeast (US), West US (US), Jio India Central (IN), Jio India West (IN).

Yes! In addition to the F4 server, the F server family includes 4 other sizes: F1 (azure), F2 (azure), F8 (azure), F16 (azure).

Looking at the number of GPU, vCPUs, and memory amount, the following top 10 servers come with similar specs: cx32 (hcloud), c2d-highcpu-4 (gcp), c3-highcpu-4 (gcp), c3d-highcpu-4 (gcp), n4-highcpu-4 (gcp), c4-highcpu-4 (gcp), c4a-highcpu-4 (gcp).