n1-highmem-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n1-highmem-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 26 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 26 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0518 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
26 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
2,914
(All-cores)
1,110
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
5004
Name
n1-highmem-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 26 GB RAM
Family
n1
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
21.5
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-13T20:18:35.808456

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1276 USD/h 0.2366 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1276 USD/h 0.2366 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1276 USD/h 0.2366 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.1246 USD/h 0.2603 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.1434 USD/h 0.2603 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0598 USD/h 0.2605 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.1151 USD/h 0.2605 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.1411 USD/h 0.2605 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.1485 USD/h 0.2605 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.0901 USD/h 0.2665 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.0955 USD/h 0.2665 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0588 USD/h 0.274 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0714 USD/h 0.2842 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.083 USD/h 0.2842 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.099 USD/h 0.2842 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1253 USD/h 0.2842 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.0899 USD/h 0.2863 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.0743 USD/h 0.2919 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.1281 USD/h 0.3034 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.156 USD/h 0.3034 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.156 USD/h 0.3034 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.105 USD/h 0.3048 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1427 USD/h 0.3048 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1125 USD/h 0.3099 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0518 USD/h 0.3181 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0523 USD/h 0.3311 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.067 USD/h 0.3357 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1584 USD/h 0.3357 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.1039 USD/h 0.3756 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
130

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
26 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
26 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

      An x86_64 virtual machine offering high memory density relative to compute resources for memory-intensive, low-intensity workloads.

      Memory OptimizedGeneral Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n1-highmem-4 is an x86_64 virtual machine from the N1 family, configured with 4 vCPUs and 26.0 GB of RAM. Powered by an Intel Xeon processor running at 2.3 GHz across 2 physical cores, this instance provides a high memory-to-core ratio of 6.5 GB per vCPU. It features no bundled local storage or GPU accelerators. Performance benchmarks place this instance in the lower tiers, with a Geekbench multi-core score of 2032.0 and a stress-ng multi-core score of 2914.17. Memory bandwidth is measured at 25.86 GB/sec for large uncached blocks, and Redis SET operations reach 2.75 million operations per second. Given its high memory allocation relative to its modest compute capabilities, the n1-highmem-4 is best suited for memory-intensive, compute-light workloads such as caching, small database hosting, and basic web serving.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.205Score
      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) 255,567 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.133 50.00% 50.00% -63.50%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 1,739,155 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.149 20.00% 20.00% -31.70%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,763 2,418 0.729 10.00% 10.00% -3.11%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 30,363 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.281 10.00% 10.00% -11.90%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 1,626 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 0.687 10.00% 10.00% -3.68%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 924

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 2,032

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 3478
      Compression
      		 43761
      Encryption
      		 1343
      Extended Instructions
      		 2368
      Floating Point Maths
      		 5993
      Integer Maths
      		 9732
      Physics
      		 446
      Prime Numbers
      		 21
      Single Threaded
      		 1626
      String Sorting
      		 5177

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1763
      Database Operations
      		 1173
      Memory Latency
      		 68
      Memory Read Cached
      		 19260
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 8775
      Memory Write
      		 8952

      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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      n1-highcpu-4 44 GiB0
      n1-standard-4 415 GiB0
      n1-highcpu-8 87 GiB0

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