n1-highcpu-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highcpu-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 3.6 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 4 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.028 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
4 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,942
(All-cores)
1,125
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
4004
Name
n1-highcpu-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 3.6 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-24T08:50:22.325246Z

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.085 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.085 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.085 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0823 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0935 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0374 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.072 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.093 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0936 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0652 USD/h 0.1596 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0691 USD/h 0.1596 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0351 USD/h 0.1641 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0426 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0548 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0685 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0784 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0594 USD/h 0.1715 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0464 USD/h 0.1748 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0694 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0845 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1092 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0726 USD/h 0.1826 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0987 USD/h 0.1826 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0743 USD/h 0.1856 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.028 USD/h 0.1905 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0327 USD/h 0.1983 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.04 USD/h 0.2011 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1096 USD/h 0.2011 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0753 USD/h 0.2249 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 L1D Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
256 KiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
512 KiB
CPU L3 Cache
45 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
45 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, pti, ssbd, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, xsaveopt, arat, md_clear, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2.6
Scalability
65

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
4 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
4 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 x86_64 compute instance with four vCPUs and low memory density, designed for lightweight processing and basic web serving.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-4 is an x86_64 compute-optimized instance featuring 4 dedicated vCPUs powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.3 GHz. It is configured with 4.0 GB of system memory, resulting in a low memory-to-vCPU ratio of 0.9 GB. The instance lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks consistently position the server in the lower tiers, with stress-ng CPU and Passmark CPU scores falling in the bottom 25%, and memory bandwidth and bzip3 decompression dropping into the bottom 10%. Due to the restricted memory capacity, this instance is not suitable for memory-heavy databases or large-scale data processing. Instead, it is qualitatively cost-efficient for lightweight, compute-focused workloads with small memory footprints, such as basic static web serving, simple text processing, and minor software compilation tasks.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.195Score
      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) 257,373 ops/sec 1,919,696 ops/sec 0.134 50.00% 50.00% -63.40%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,776,617 ops/sec 11,736,081 ops/sec 0.151 20.00% 20.00% -31.50%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 987.4 2,418 0.408 10.00% 10.00% -8.57%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 31,772 MB/sec 108,260 MB/sec 0.293 10.00% 10.00% -11.60%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,614 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.682 10.00% 10.00% -3.75%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 926

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,979

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3374
      Compression
      		 43154
      Encryption
      		 1339
      Extended Instructions
      		 2148
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5970
      Integer Maths
      		 9704
      Physics
      		 370
      Prime Numbers
      		 18
      Single Threaded
      		 1614
      String Sorting
      		 5158

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 987
      Database Operations
      		 1132
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18974
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8528
      Memory Write
      		 8439

      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

      Alternatives

      Servers of the Same Family

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYGPUs
      n1-standard-1 14 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-2 22 GiB0
      n1-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n1-highmem-2 213 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highmem-4 426 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-8 87 GiB0

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