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 0.024 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
API Reference Object
-
Description
4 vCPUs, 3.6 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
22
Status
active
Observed At
2026-10-17T04:44:18.152787

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.0767 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.0767 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.0767 USD/h 0.1417 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0844 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0902 USD/h 0.1559 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0355 USD/h 0.156 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.0683 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
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0647 USD/h 0.1596 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0686 USD/h 0.1596 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0368 USD/h 0.1641 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0446 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0574 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0649 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.0744 USD/h 0.1702 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.059 USD/h 0.1715 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0398 USD/h 0.1748 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.0726 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0801 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.0936 USD/h 0.182 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0721 USD/h 0.1826 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.098 USD/h 0.1826 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.0815 USD/h 0.1856 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.024 USD/h 0.1905 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0325 USD/h 0.1983 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0397 USD/h 0.2011 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1039 USD/h 0.2011 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0714 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 1,917,050 ops/sec 0.14 50.00% 50.00% -63.00%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,776,617 ops/sec 11,661,818 ops/sec 0.15 20.00% 20.00% -32.00%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 990 2,417 0.41 10.00% 10.00% -8.50%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 31,772 MB/sec 108,361 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
      		 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

      INSTANCEvCPUsMEMORYAccelerators
      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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