c4-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

c4-standard-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 15 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0276 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
15 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,747
(All-cores)
1,836
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1762004
Name
c4-standard-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM
Family
c4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
24
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-02T18:06:24.955859Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.118 USD/h 0.1977 USD/h
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.1181 USD/h 0.1977 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1183 USD/h 0.1977 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1183 USD/h 0.1977 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1183 USD/h 0.1977 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0678 USD/h 0.2056 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0855 USD/h 0.2056 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.054 USD/h 0.2075 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0706 USD/h 0.2076 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0906 USD/h 0.2076 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.0702 USD/h 0.2155 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0362 USD/h 0.2174 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0276 USD/h 0.2177 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0609 USD/h 0.2177 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0697 USD/h 0.2177 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0784 USD/h 0.2177 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0805 USD/h 0.2177 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0757 USD/h 0.2226 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0945 USD/h 0.2253 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.1361 USD/h 0.2289 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0321 USD/h 0.2293 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.0665 USD/h 0.2293 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.0725 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0827 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1111 USD/h 0.2333 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0563 USD/h 0.2376 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.078 USD/h 0.2376 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0574 USD/h 0.2392 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0649 USD/h 0.2402 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1177 USD/h 0.2439 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0791 USD/h 0.2471 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1198 USD/h 0.2538 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.1344 USD/h 0.2538 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1519 USD/h 0.2538 USD/h
Turin (IT) / europe-west12
0.0527 USD/h 0.255 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0973 USD/h 0.257 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1542 USD/h 0.259 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0524 USD/h 0.2658 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.1344 USD/h 0.2765 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0933 USD/h 0.2827 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1004 USD/h 0.3139 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0337 USD/h 0.3163 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
50

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
15 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
15 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 virtual machine featuring advanced Intel matrix extensions for predictable single-threaded execution and general-purpose workloads.

      General PurposeCompute Optimized

      The Google Cloud Platform c4-standard-4 is an x86_64 virtual machine featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs and 15 GB of RAM, powered by an Intel Xeon 8581C processor running at 2.3 GHz. Built on 2 physical cores with hyper-threading, it includes advanced hardware capabilities such as Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512. The instance does not include local storage or GPUs. In benchmark evaluations, the c4-standard-4 exhibits strong single-threaded performance in text processing and decompression, though its multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth fall into the lower performance quartiles. This resource profile makes it a qualitatively cost-efficient option for workloads requiring dedicated CPU resources but moderate memory capacity. It is best suited for static web serving, light text processing, small-scale LLM inference, and general-purpose application hosting.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.5Score
      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) 851,324 ops/sec 1,916,704 ops/sec 0.45 50.00% 50.00% -33.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 4,008,060 ops/sec 11,642,227 ops/sec 0.33 20.00% 20.00% -20.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,626 2,418 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 76,636 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 0.7 10.00% 10.00% -3.50%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,713 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.1 10.00% 10.00% +0.96%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,916

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,292

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6757
      Compression
      		 66066
      Encryption
      		 3872
      Extended Instructions
      		 4685
      Floating Point Maths
      		 12402
      Integer Maths
      		 17473
      Physics
      		 895
      Prime Numbers
      		 39
      Single Threaded
      		 2713
      String Sorting
      		 9014

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1626
      Database Operations
      		 2321
      Memory Latency
      		 70
      Memory Read Cached
      		 24444
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 7045
      Memory Write
      		 6604

      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

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      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      c4-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      c4-standard-2 27 GiB0
      c4-highmem-2 215 GiB0
      c4-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      c4-standard-4-lssd 415 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4 431 GiB0
      c4-highmem-4-lssd 431 GiB0

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