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 0.0216 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
2026-11-10T08:44:10.258185

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0763 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0763 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0763 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0796 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0935 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0288 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0751 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.093 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0934 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0559 USD/h 0.1596 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0746 USD/h 0.1596 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0366 USD/h 0.1641 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0443 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0598 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0646 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0818 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0531 USD/h 0.1715 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0438 USD/h 0.1748 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0723 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0881 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0931 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0649 USD/h 0.1826 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.0882 USD/h 0.1826 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0664 USD/h 0.1856 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0216 USD/h 0.1905 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0307 USD/h 0.1983 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0324 USD/h 0.2011 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.0935 USD/h 0.2011 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.071 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
ACCELERATORS
Accelerator Count
0
Accelerator Memory Min
0 MiB
Accelerator Memory Total
0 MiB
Accelerators
    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

      Compute-oriented cloud instance offering four dedicated vCPUs with minimal memory allocation for lightweight CPU-bound workloads and utility processing.

      Compute OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highcpu-4 is an entry-tier x86_64 compute-optimized server equipped with 4 dedicated vCPUs across 2 physical Intel Xeon cores at 2.3 GHz and 4.0 GB of RAM. Lacking bundled local storage and GPU accelerators, it provides a 1:1 vCPU-to-RAM ratio tailored for memory-light execution. Benchmark results place its compute and memory capabilities in lower performance brackets, recording a Geekbench multi-core score of 1979.0, a PassMark CPU score of 3374.03, and uncached memory read bandwidth of 25.58 GB/sec. Operational throughput reaches 2.8 million Redis SET operations per second and 2.92 GB/sec for static web serving. While offering dedicated core allocation without credit-based throttling, its legacy architecture limits high-throughput scaling. The instance is best matched for lightweight CI/CD tasks, simple batch jobs, basic web serving, and utility processing workloads that demand continuous CPU access with low memory overhead.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

      Lowest Prices

      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.2Score
      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 1,921,522 ops/sec 0.14 50.00% 50.00% -63.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,776,617 ops/sec 11,803,344 ops/sec 0.15 20.00% 20.00% -32.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 990 2,406 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 31,772 MB/sec 108,665 MB/sec 0.29 10.00% 10.00% -12.00%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,614 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.67 10.00% 10.00% -3.90%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 926

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 1,979

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3,374
      Compression
      		 43,154
      Encryption
      		 1,339
      Extended Instructions
      		 2,148
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5,970
      Integer Maths
      		 9,704
      Physics
      		 370
      Prime Numbers
      		 18
      Single Threaded
      		 1,614
      String Sorting
      		 5,158

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 987
      Database Operations
      		 1,132
      Memory Latency
      		 61
      Memory Read Cached
      		 18,974
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8,528
      Memory Write
      		 8,439

      Stress-ng Stressors

      CPU integerSingleMultiScaling
      atomic
      		 206.8 228 1.10×
      bitops
      		 84,267 193,402 2.30×
      branch
      		 120,200 365,153 3.04×
      funccall
      		 422.13 875.47 2.07×
      funcret
      		 8,869 25,199 2.84×
      hash
      		 96,139 280,521 2.92×
      intmath
      		 17,285 51,511 2.98×
      nop
      		 148,683 258,320 1.74×
      prime
      		 249,156 557,019 2.24×
      rotate
      		 75,420 209,427 2.78×
      str
      		 553,880 1,134,142 2.05×
      wcs
      		 367,217 767,221 2.09×
      CryptographySingleMultiScaling
      crypt
      		 1,890 3,710 1.96×
      CompressionSingleMultiScaling
      jpeg
      		 437.41 1,060 2.42×
      zlib
      		 48.55 132.07 2.72×
      HypervisorSingleMultiScaling
      clock
      		 13,428 31,746 2.36×
      clone
      		 130.41 295.61 2.27×
      context
      		 981.37 2,502 2.55×
      cpu-sched
      		 56.9 245.61 4.32×
      eventfd
      		 24,525 123,536 5.04×
      fault
      		 6,695 17,794 2.66×
      fork
      		 1,793 6,901 3.85×
      getrandom
      		 34,440 82,987 2.41×
      hrtimers
      		 108,608 192,380 1.77×
      mprotect
      		 274,000 313,234 1.14×
      mtx
      		 11,530,908 65,644,738 5.69×
      munmap
      		 1,358 4,426 3.26×
      null
      		 94,773 235,085 2.48×
      pipe
      		 299,379 708,582 2.37×
      priv-instr
      		 253,726 599,731 2.36×
      resched
      		 308,972 170,603 0.55×
      switch
      		 50,619 369,335 7.30×
      timermix
      		 126,183 304,023 2.41×
      tlb-shootdown
      		 3,444 5,632 1.64×
      tsc
      		 780,429 2,171,020 2.78×
      usersyscall
      		 167,465 405,924 2.42×
      vdso
      		 64,509,655 181,093,958 2.81×
      vfork
      		 13,924 38,048 2.73×
      x86syscall
      		 1,079,811 2,672,953 2.48×
      yield
      		 1,076,194 1,183,330 1.10×
      zero
      		 841,482 2,096,752 2.49×
      CPU float/SIMDSingleMultiScaling
      eigen
      		 12,537 30,412 2.43×
      expmath
      		 2,096 6,379 3.04×
      fma
      		 447,452 1,443,839 3.23×
      fp
      		 93.6 243.63 2.60×
      fractal
      		 3.8 11.2 2.95×
      hyperbolic
      		 2,182 6,770 3.10×
      logmath
      		 3,512 10,323 2.94×
      matrix
      		 2,502 7,763 3.10×
      matrix-3d
      		 351.71 785.37 2.23×
      monte-carlo
      		 53.77 139 2.59×
      mpfr
      		 933.98 2,021 2.16×
      powmath
      		 1,244 3,784 3.04×
      trig
      		 1,334 3,545 2.66×
      veccmp
      		 11,999 25,401 2.12×
      vecfp
      		 1,043 2,646 2.54×
      vecmath
      		 1,739 5,371 3.09×
      vecshuf
      		 440.66 965.27 2.19×
      vecwide
      		 18,507 41,790 2.26×
      AlgorithmsSingleMultiScaling
      bitonicsort
      		 5.6 12.8 2.29×
      bsearch
      		 187.85 429.5 2.29×
      bubblesort
      		 0.6 0.8 1.33×
      fibsearch
      		 188.64 434.44 2.30×
      heapsort
      		 6.4 16 2.50×
      hsearch
      		 3,683 9,367 2.54×
      insertionsort
      		 6.4 12.8 2.00×
      malloc
      		 862,516 4,514,258 5.23×
      mcontend
      		 211.81 469 2.21×
      mergesort
      		 18 48 2.67×
      qsort
      		 11.4 26.2 2.30×
      skiplist
      		 3,818 10,782 2.82×
      tree
      		 0.6 2 3.33×
      MemorySingleMultiScaling
      cache
      		 217,693 273,922 1.26×
      cachehammer
      		 317,669 1,240,575 3.91×
      cacheline
      		 13.51 57.21 4.23×
      l1cache
      		 175.26 380.84 2.17×
      memcpy
      		 271.79 585.57 2.15×
      memrate
      		 0.95 2.21 2.33×
      memthrash
      		 47.04 125.04 2.66×
      ptr-chase
      		 6,250,460 29,814,005 4.77×
      spinmem
      		 84.19 42.99 0.51×
      stream
      		 22.65 205.41 9.07×
      vm
      		 15,974 174,827 10.94×

      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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