c4-standard-32 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-standard-32 is a 32 vCPUs, 120 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 32 vCPUs, 120 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.2204 USD per hour.
32 vCPU
120 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
29,874
(All-cores)
2,095
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1762032
Name
c4-standard-32
Description
32 vCPUs, 120 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-30T16:26:45.176780Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.944 USD/h 1.5814 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.9446 USD/h 1.5814 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.9465 USD/h 1.5814 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.9465 USD/h 1.5814 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.9465 USD/h 1.5814 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.5427 USD/h 1.6446 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.6837 USD/h 1.6447 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.4322 USD/h 1.6604 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.5646 USD/h 1.6604 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.7248 USD/h 1.6604 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.5614 USD/h 1.7237 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.2893 USD/h 1.7395 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.2204 USD/h 1.7412 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.4869 USD/h 1.7412 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.5573 USD/h 1.7412 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.627 USD/h 1.7412 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.644 USD/h 1.7412 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.6056 USD/h 1.7811 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.7562 USD/h 1.8028 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
1.0888 USD/h 1.8311 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.257 USD/h 1.8344 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.5318 USD/h 1.8344 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.5798 USD/h 1.866 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.6613 USD/h 1.866 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.8885 USD/h 1.866 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4508 USD/h 1.901 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.6239 USD/h 1.901 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.4592 USD/h 1.9133 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.5189 USD/h 1.9214 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.9412 USD/h 1.9509 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.6325 USD/h 1.9767 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.9582 USD/h 2.0308 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
1.0748 USD/h 2.0308 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
1.2153 USD/h 2.0308 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.4212 USD/h 2.04 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.7786 USD/h 2.0558 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
1.2336 USD/h 2.0717 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.4194 USD/h 2.1265 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
1.0754 USD/h 2.2122 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.7462 USD/h 2.2613 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.8032 USD/h 2.511 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.27 USD/h 2.5302 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
32
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
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
768 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 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
14.3
Scalability
44.69

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
120 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
120 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 32-vCPU compute instance featuring Intel Xeon processors, optimized for text processing, compression, and lightweight machine learning workloads.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform c4-standard-32 is a compute-focused server featuring 32 dedicated vCPUs and 120 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor on the x86_64 architecture. Lacking local storage and GPU accelerators, this instance relies on its 16 physical cores and advanced instruction sets, including Intel AMX and AVX-512, to drive performance. Benchmark results show top-tier capabilities in text processing and small-model LLM text generation, alongside strong performance in compression and static web serving. Conversely, heavy workloads like large-scale LLM generation perform poorly without dedicated GPU hardware. This server provides a cost-effective profile for compute-heavy tasks, making it highly suitable for web serving, text processing pipelines, and lightweight CPU-based machine learning inference.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      2.34Score
      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) 6,280,355 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 3.28 50.00% 50.00% +81.10%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 30,270,236 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 2.6 20.00% 20.00% +21.10%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 2,316 2,418 0.958 10.00% 10.00% -0.43%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 198,735 MB/sec 108,322 MB/sec 1.83 10.00% 10.00% +6.23%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,650 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.12 10.00% 10.00% +1.14%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 2,164

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 16,691

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 42435
      Compression
      		 499444
      Encryption
      		 30249
      Extended Instructions
      		 37866
      Floating Point Maths
      		 97870
      Integer Maths
      		 138898
      Physics
      		 5950
      Prime Numbers
      		 299
      Single Threaded
      		 2650
      String Sorting
      		 69678

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 2316
      Database Operations
      		 15954
      Memory Latency
      		 58
      Memory Read Cached
      		 23531
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8044
      Memory Write
      		 7918

      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

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

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