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 272 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 2010, headquartered in Washington, United States. For more information, visit the Microsoft Azure homepage.

The F4 server is available in 272 availability zones of the following 57 regions: Australia Central 2 (AU), UK South (GB), Central US (US), Central India (IN), East US (US), North Central US (US), West US 2 (US), West US 3 (US), France Central (FR), Korea Central (KR), Korea South (KR), Indonesia Central (ID), Malaysia West (MY), Canada East (CA), Mexico Central (ZA), South Central US (US), West Central US (US), West India (IN), Austria East (AT), Germany West Central (DE), Italy North (IT), Spain Central (ES), Sweden Central (SE), West Europe (NL), Belgium Central (BE), Poland Central (PL), Southeast Asia (SG), UK West (GB), Israel Central (IL), Qatar Central (QA), UAE North (AE), South India (IN), West US (US), Switzerland North (CH), Norway East (NO), Japan East (JP), Japan West (JP), Australia Central (AU), Australia East (AU), Australia Southeast (AU), France South (FR), South Africa North (ZA), New Zealand North (NZ), Chile Central (CL), North Europe (IE), Brazil South (BR), East Asia (HK), UAE Central (AE), Germany North (DE), Switzerland West (CH), Norway West (NO), South Africa West (ZA), Canada Central (CA), Brazil Southeast (US), East US 2 (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), cpx32 (hcloud), c2d-highcpu-4 (gcp), cx33 (hcloud), c3-highcpu-4 (gcp), c3d-highcpu-4 (gcp), n4-highcpu-4 (gcp).