c4a-standard-16-lssd by Google Cloud Platform

c4a-standard-16-lssd is a 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 4 local SSD server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 16 vCPUs, 64 GiB of memory and 1.61 TB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.142 USD per hour.
16 vCPU
64 GiB Memory
1.61 TB Storage
Spare SCore
29,085
(All-cores)
1,819
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1765222
Name
c4a-standard-16-lssd
Description
16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 4 local SSD
Family
c4a
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
28.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-14T21:59:05.777534

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.217 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.4783 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.4783 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.4783 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.5748 USD/h 0.965 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.367 USD/h 1.0035 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.142 USD/h 1.0132 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.5212 USD/h 1.0132 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.2733 USD/h 1.0518 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.2742 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.4314 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.4437 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.5044 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.5139 USD/h 1.0625 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.5523 USD/h 1.0869 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.54 USD/h 1.1 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.3686 USD/h 1.1173 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.403 USD/h 1.1387 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.4213 USD/h 1.1387 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.5072 USD/h 1.1387 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.4644 USD/h 1.16 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.3037 USD/h 1.1676 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.4686 USD/h 1.1724 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.7142 USD/h 1.1905 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.2534 USD/h 1.2063 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.5856 USD/h 1.2392 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.2636 USD/h 1.2543 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.5395 USD/h 1.2641 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.5186 USD/h 1.2976 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.5763 USD/h 1.3799 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.6124 USD/h 1.5323 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.699 USD/h 1.5443 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
16
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
16
CPU Speed
3 GHz
CPU Architecture
arm64
CPU Family
ARMv8
CPU Model
Neoverse-V2
CPU L1D Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L1I Cache
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
1 MiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
32 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
80 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
80 MiB
CPU Flags
fp, asimd, evtstrm, aes, pmull, sha1, sha2, crc32, atomics, fphp, asimdhp, cpuid, asimdrdm, jscvt, fcma, lrcpc, dcpop, sha3, sm3, sm4, asimddp, sha512, sve, asimdfhm, dit, uscat, ilrcpc, flagm, sb, paca, pacg, dcpodp, sve2, sveaes, svepmull, svebitperm, svesha3, svesm4, flagm2, frint, svei8mm, svebf16, i8mm, bf16, dgh, rng, bti
Ecpus
16
Scalability
100

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
64 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
64 GiB
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    STORAGE
    Storage Size
    1608 GB
    Storage Type
    nvme ssd
    Storages
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    • 402 GB nvme ssd
    NETWORK
    Inbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    Outbound Traffic
    0 GB/month
    IPv4
    0

    CPU and System Topology

    Server Description

    An ARM64 server combining dedicated physical cores with high-speed bundled NVMe storage and top-tier memory subsystem performance.

    General PurposeStorage & Database

    Google Cloud Platform c4a-standard-16-lssd is an ARM64 server featuring 16 dedicated physical cores on the 3.0 GHz ARMv8 Neoverse-V2 architecture, paired with 64.0 GB of RAM and 1608 GB of local NVMe SSD storage. It operates without hyperthreading, allocating one thread per core, and lacks GPU resources. Benchmarks indicate top-tier memory performance, with Passmark memory scores in the top 10% and strong large-block memory bandwidth in the top 25%. Multi-core Geekbench scaling, text processing, and database operations also demonstrate strong performance. While it lacks x86 vector extensions like AVX-512, its bundled high-speed local storage and strong memory subsystem make it highly efficient for database management, text processing, multi-threaded decompression, and general-purpose workloads requiring high-speed local disk access.

    Economics

    Average Price per Region

    Prices per Zone

    Lowest Prices

    Performance

    Workload Profiles

    1.6Score
    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) 2,992,369 ops/sec 1,917,050 ops/sec 1.6 50.00% 50.00% +26.00%
    Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 19,879,584 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 1.7 20.00% 20.00% +11.00%
    PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 3,248 2,417 1.3 10.00% 10.00% +2.70%
    Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 371,374 MB/sec 108,361 MB/sec 3.4 10.00% 10.00% +13.00%
    PassMark single-thread CPU 2,076 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.88 10.00% 10.00% -1.30%

    Memory Bandwidth

    Compression

    OpenSSL

    Geekbench Single-Core

    Score: 1,961

    Geekbench Multi-Core

    Score: 17,040

    Passmark CPU Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Mark
    		 16148
    Compression
    		 113145
    Encryption
    		 3355
    Extended Instructions
    		 20787
    Floating Point Maths
    		 103198
    Integer Maths
    		 89344
    Physics
    		 5506
    Prime Numbers
    		 273
    Single Threaded
    		 2076
    String Sorting
    		 79797

    Passmark Memory Scores

    BENCHMARKSCORE
    Memory Mark
    		 3248
    Database Operations
    		 26262
    Memory Latency
    		 50
    Memory Read Cached
    		 22587
    Memory Read Uncached
    		 18775
    Memory Write
    		 22761

    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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    c4a-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
    c4a-standard-2 28 GiB0
    c4a-highmem-2 216 GiB0
    c4a-highcpu-4 48 GiB0

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