c4-highmem-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-highmem-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 31 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0358 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
31 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,485
(All-cores)
1,708
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1761004
Name
c4-highmem-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 31 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-08T08:50:53.181633

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1486 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1486 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1486 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1487 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1556 USD/h 0.2607 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0895 USD/h 0.2711 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.1187 USD/h 0.2711 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0718 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0931 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1086 USD/h 0.2737 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0974 USD/h 0.2841 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0358 USD/h 0.2867 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0424 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0766 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0919 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1034 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1062 USD/h 0.287 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0998 USD/h 0.2936 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.1255 USD/h 0.2972 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1714 USD/h 0.3018 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0494 USD/h 0.3024 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0877 USD/h 0.3024 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0752 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0858 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1153 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Berlin (DE) / europe-west10
0.1449 USD/h 0.3076 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0784 USD/h 0.3134 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0982 USD/h 0.3134 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0757 USD/h 0.3154 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0855 USD/h 0.3167 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1411 USD/h 0.3216 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1043 USD/h 0.3258 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1302 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1395 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1922 USD/h 0.3348 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0547 USD/h 0.3363 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.1497 USD/h 0.3389 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1854 USD/h 0.3415 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.063 USD/h 0.3505 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1395 USD/h 0.3647 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.123 USD/h 0.3728 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1397 USD/h 0.4139 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0448 USD/h 0.4171 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Speed
2.3 GHz
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU Family
Xeon
CPU Model
8581C
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
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, monitor, 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, hle, 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, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
31 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
31 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 memory-optimized virtual machine featuring strong single-core performance and advanced Intel instruction sets for memory-bound workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-highmem-4 is an x86_64 memory-optimized instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 31.0 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz. It lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmarks indicate exceptional single-core performance, with top-tier results in Geekbench single-core and text processing, alongside strong single-threaded compression speeds. However, multi-core CPU performance and memory bandwidth are relatively weak. The processor supports advanced instruction sets like Intel AMX and AVX-512, making it capable of moderate LLM inference tasks. With 7.75 GB of RAM per vCPU, this instance is qualitatively cost-efficient for memory-bound, single-threaded applications, text processing, and light database workloads that do not require high multi-core throughput.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.449Score
      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) 710,353 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.37 50.00% 50.00% -39.20%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,444,640 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.295 20.00% 20.00% -21.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,819 2,418 0.752 10.00% 10.00% -2.81%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 73,795 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.682 10.00% 10.00% -3.75%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,541 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.07 10.00% 10.00% +0.68%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,258

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 5,040

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6351
      Compression
      		 62439
      Encryption
      		 3653
      Extended Instructions
      		 4407
      Floating Point Maths
      		 11651
      Integer Maths
      		 16413
      Physics
      		 832
      Prime Numbers
      		 36
      Single Threaded
      		 2541
      String Sorting
      		 8433

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1819
      Database Operations
      		 2359
      Memory Latency
      		 66
      Memory Read Cached
      		 22963
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7310
      Memory Write
      		 6829

      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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      c4-standard-4-lssd 415 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4-lssd 431 GiB0

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