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.
4 vCPU
8 GiB Memory
66 GB Storage
Spare SCore
4,313
(All-cores)
1,217
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
azure
Server ID
Standard_F4
Name
F4
API Reference
Standard_F4
Description
F family [Intel processor] 4 vCPUs
Family
F
Hw Virt
Status
planned-for-retirement
Observed At
2026-10-12T13:51:39.550969

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Central India (IN) / centralindia
0.0444 USD/h 0.198 USD/h
Jio India Central (IN) / jioindiacentral
- 0.198 USD/h
Jio India West (IN) / jioindiawest
- 0.198 USD/h
North Central US (US) / northcentralus
0.0447 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
West US 2 (US) / westus2
0.0447 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
West US 3 (US) / westus3
0.0448 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
East US (US) / eastus
0.0463 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
East US 2 (US) / eastus2
0.0979 USD/h 0.199 USD/h
France Central (FR) / francecentral
0.0453 USD/h 0.202 USD/h
Korea Central (KR) / koreacentral
0.0458 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Korea South (KR) / koreasouth
0.0458 USD/h 0.204 USD/h
Canada Central (CA) / canadacentral
0.0804 USD/h 0.207 USD/h
Indonesia Central (ID) / indonesiacentral
0.0467 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Malaysia West (MY) / malaysiawest
0.0467 USD/h 0.208 USD/h
Canada East (CA) / canadaeast
0.0489 USD/h 0.218 USD/h
Central US (US) / centralus
0.0404 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
Mexico Central (ZA) / mexicocentral
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
South Central US (US) / southcentralus
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
West Central US (US) / westcentralus
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
West India (IN) / westindia
0.0491 USD/h 0.219 USD/h
North Europe (IE) / northeurope
0.0507 USD/h 0.226 USD/h
Austria East (AT) / austriaeast
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Germany West Central (DE) / germanywestcentral
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Italy North (IT) / italynorth
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Spain Central (ES) / spaincentral
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Sweden Central (SE) / swedencentral
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
UK South (GB) / uksouth
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
West Europe (NL) / westeurope
0.051 USD/h 0.227 USD/h
Belgium Central (BE) / belgiumcentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.228 USD/h
Poland Central (PL) / polandcentral
0.0512 USD/h 0.228 USD/h
Southeast Asia (SG) / southeastasia
0.052 USD/h 0.231 USD/h
UK West (GB) / ukwest
0.0532 USD/h 0.237 USD/h
Israel Central (IL) / israelcentral
0.0536 USD/h 0.239 USD/h
Qatar Central (QA) / qatarcentral
0.0536 USD/h 0.239 USD/h
UAE North (AE) / uaenorth
0.0538 USD/h 0.239 USD/h
South India (IN) / southindia
0.0543 USD/h 0.242 USD/h
West US (US) / westus
0.0559 USD/h 0.249 USD/h
Switzerland North (CH) / switzerlandnorth
0.0561 USD/h 0.2497 USD/h
Norway East (NO) / norwayeast
0.0561 USD/h 0.25 USD/h
Japan East (JP) / japaneast
0.0566 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Japan West (JP) / japanwest
0.0566 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Australia Central 2 (AU) / australiacentral2
0.026 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Australia Central (AU) / australiacentral
0.0583 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Australia East (AU) / australiaeast
0.0583 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
Australia Southeast (AU) / australiasoutheast
0.0583 USD/h 0.26 USD/h
France South (FR) / francesouth
0.0588 USD/h 0.262 USD/h
South Africa North (ZA) / southafricanorth
0.0599 USD/h 0.267 USD/h
New Zealand North (NZ) / newzealandnorth
0.0615 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Chile Central (CL) / chilecentral
0.0624 USD/h 0.278 USD/h
Brazil South (BR) / brazilsouth
0.0644 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
East Asia (HK) / eastasia
0.0649 USD/h 0.289 USD/h
UAE Central (AE) / uaecentral
0.0662 USD/h 0.295 USD/h
Germany North (DE) / germanynorth
0.0665 USD/h 0.296 USD/h
Switzerland West (CH) / switzerlandwest
0.0728 USD/h 0.3244 USD/h
Norway West (NO) / norwaywest
0.0729 USD/h 0.325 USD/h
South Africa West (ZA) / southafricawest
0.0752 USD/h 0.334 USD/h
Brazil Southeast (US) / brazilsoutheast
0.0837 USD/h 0.373 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
4
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
128 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
128 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
1 MiB
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, ht, 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
3.5
Scalability
87.5

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
8 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
8 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    66 GB
    Storage Type
    ssd
    Storages
    • 66 GB ssd (temp disk)
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    Server Description

    A dedicated four-core compute instance with balanced local storage and memory for entry-level processing and utility workloads.

    Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

    Microsoft Azure F4 is an x86_64 compute-optimized virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated physical cores powered by an Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 processor running at 2.3 GHz. It is equipped with 8.0 GB of RAM, providing a 2.0 GB per vCPU ratio, and includes 66 GB of local storage. Operating under the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor, the instance supports AVX, AES, and FMA instruction sets. Benchmark data indicates modest overall performance, with CPU and memory bandwidth results generally falling in the bottom 25%, though it achieves average marks in database operations, gzip compression, and small-model LLM inference. Qualitatively, the F4 offers a dedicated, budget-friendly compute option for workloads requiring predictable CPU allocation without high memory demands. It is best suited for lightweight web serving, basic database tasks, and moderate software compilation.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    0.28Score
    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) 386,491 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.21 50.00% 50.00% -54.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 2,941,414 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.24 20.00% 20.00% -25.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,309 2,417 0.54 10.00% 10.00% -6.00%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 39,549 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.36 10.00% 10.00% -9.70%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 1,738 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.71 10.00% 10.00% -3.40%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 923

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 2,854

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 5733
    Compression
    		 64326
    Encryption
    		 1828
    Extended Instructions
    		 5560
    Floating Point Maths
    		 12336
    Integer Maths
    		 14973
    Physics
    		 820
    Prime Numbers
    		 49
    Single Threaded
    		 1738
    String Sorting
    		 8985

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 1309
    Database Operations
    		 3192
    Memory Latency
    		 54
    Memory Read Cached
    		 17470
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 10763
    Memory Write
    		 9770

    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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