c3-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c3-standard-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0227 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,316
(All-cores)
1,619
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1300004
Name
c3-standard-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
c3
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-09T10:47:04.798184

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0514 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0649 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0657 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0657 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0657 USD/h 0.2016 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0259 USD/h 0.2097 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0346 USD/h 0.2097 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.093 USD/h 0.2117 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.032 USD/h 0.2218 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0643 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0709 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0841 USD/h 0.222 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0985 USD/h 0.2271 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1379 USD/h 0.2298 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0537 USD/h 0.2339 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0227 USD/h 0.2379 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0837 USD/h 0.2379 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0643 USD/h 0.2424 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.1454 USD/h 0.2424 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1345 USD/h 0.2487 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0664 USD/h 0.252 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0688 USD/h 0.2589 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0508 USD/h 0.2621 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0354 USD/h 0.3201 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0528 USD/h 0.3226 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.7 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8481C
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
105 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
105 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, nonstop_tsc, cpuid, tsc_known_freq, pni, pclmulqdq, ssse3, fma, cx16, pcid, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 GiB
GPU
GPU Count
0
GPU Memory Min
0 MiB
GPU Memory Total
0 MiB
GPUs
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    0 GB
    Storages
      NETWORK
      Inbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      Outbound Traffic
      0 GB/month
      IPv4
      0

      CPU and System Topology

      Server Description

      A dedicated four-vCPU Intel Xeon virtual machine balancing average single-core execution with standard memory capacity for general-purpose workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      The Google Cloud Platform c3-standard-4 is an x86_64 virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon 8481C processor running at 2.7 GHz, paired with 16.0 GB of RAM. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators but includes advanced hardware features like Intel AMX and AVX-512. Benchmark data indicates average single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1713.0 and steady static web serving throughput of 6.68 GB/sec. However, multi-core performance and memory bandwidth are relatively weak, as shown by a multi-core Geekbench score of 3813.0 and uncached read speeds of 28.42 GB/sec. This resource profile makes the instance best suited for single-threaded applications, lightweight web serving, and basic text processing, while presenting a clear performance tradeoff for highly parallelized or memory-bound workloads.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.401Score
      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) 639,190 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.333 50.00% 50.00% -42.30%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,063,221 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.262 20.00% 20.00% -23.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,737 2,418 0.718 10.00% 10.00% -3.26%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 54,802 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.507 10.00% 10.00% -6.57%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,468 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.04 10.00% 10.00% +0.39%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,713

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 3,813

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6118
      Compression
      		 60803
      Encryption
      		 3507
      Extended Instructions
      		 4090
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11320
      Integer Maths
      		 15855
      Physics
      		 800
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2468
      String Sorting
      		 8136

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1737
      Database Operations
      		 2014
      Memory Latency
      		 72
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22174
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 9158
      Memory Write
      		 7957

      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

      PostgreSQL heavy read-only throughput

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
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      c3-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      c3-highcpu-8 816 GiB0
      c3-standard-8 832 GiB0
      c3-standard-8-lssd 832 GiB0
      c3-highmem-8 864 GiB0

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