n4-standard-4 by Google Cloud Platform

n4-standard-4 is a 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM server offered by Google Cloud Platform with 4 vCPUs, 16 GiB of memory and 0 GB of storage. The pricing starts at 0.0282 USD per hour.
4 vCPU
16 GiB Memory
Spare SCore
3,213
(All-cores)
1,562
(Single-core)

Specifications

Server Metadata

Vendor ID
gcp
Server ID
1750002
Name
n4-standard-4
Description
4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM
Family
n4
Hw Virt
Average Time To Start
17
Status
active
Observed At
2026-09-07T22:44:15.563316

Availability

REGION / IDSPOTONDEMAND
Columbus (US) / us-east5
0.0555 USD/h 0.1814 USD/h
Ashburn (US) / us-east4
0.1026 USD/h 0.1814 USD/h
Council Bluffs (US) / us-central1
0.1029 USD/h 0.1814 USD/h
The Dalles (US) / us-west1
0.1029 USD/h 0.1814 USD/h
Moncks Corner (US) / us-east1
0.1029 USD/h 0.1814 USD/h
Delhi (IN) / asia-south2
0.0458 USD/h 0.1887 USD/h
Mumbai (IN) / asia-south1
0.0558 USD/h 0.1887 USD/h
Eemshaven (NL) / europe-west4
0.0424 USD/h 0.1905 USD/h
Bangkok (TH) / asia-southeast3
0.0445 USD/h 0.1905 USD/h
Stockholm (SE) / europe-north2
0.0791 USD/h 0.1905 USD/h
Queretaro (MX) / northamerica-south1
0.08 USD/h 0.1977 USD/h
Tel Aviv (IL) / me-west1
0.0681 USD/h 0.1995 USD/h
St. Ghislain (BE) / europe-west1
0.0306 USD/h 0.1997 USD/h
Montréal (CA) / northamerica-northeast1
0.0398 USD/h 0.1997 USD/h
Johannesburg (ZA) / africa-south1
0.0479 USD/h 0.1997 USD/h
Toronto (CA) / northamerica-northeast2
0.071 USD/h 0.1997 USD/h
Hamina (FI) / europe-north1
0.0918 USD/h 0.1997 USD/h
Las Vegas (US) / us-west4
0.1004 USD/h 0.2043 USD/h
London (GB) / europe-west2
0.0801 USD/h 0.2068 USD/h
Changhua County (TW) / asia-east1
0.0798 USD/h 0.21 USD/h
Milan (IT) / europe-west8
0.046 USD/h 0.2104 USD/h
Paris (FR) / europe-west9
0.0688 USD/h 0.2104 USD/h
Dallas (US) / us-south1
0.042 USD/h 0.2141 USD/h
Madrid (ES) / europe-southwest1
0.0463 USD/h 0.2141 USD/h
Frankfurt (DE) / europe-west3
0.1159 USD/h 0.2141 USD/h
Salt Lake City (US) / us-west3
0.0386 USD/h 0.2181 USD/h
Los Angeles (US) / us-west2
0.1245 USD/h 0.2181 USD/h
Warsaw (PL) / europe-central2
0.097 USD/h 0.2195 USD/h
Doha (QA) / me-central1
0.0966 USD/h 0.2204 USD/h
Jurong West (SG) / asia-southeast1
0.1225 USD/h 0.2238 USD/h
Sydney (AU) / australia-southeast1
0.1046 USD/h 0.2268 USD/h
Osaka (JP) / asia-northeast2
0.0813 USD/h 0.233 USD/h
Seoul (KR) / asia-northeast3
0.1111 USD/h 0.233 USD/h
Tokyo (JP) / asia-northeast1
0.121 USD/h 0.233 USD/h
Melbourne (AU) / australia-southeast2
0.0759 USD/h 0.2358 USD/h
Zurich (CH) / europe-west6
0.1104 USD/h 0.2376 USD/h
Jakarta (ID) / asia-southeast2
0.0707 USD/h 0.2439 USD/h
Hong Kong / asia-east2
0.0282 USD/h 0.2538 USD/h
Santiago (CL) / southamerica-west1
0.0724 USD/h 0.2594 USD/h
Osasco (BR) / southamerica-east1
0.0469 USD/h 0.288 USD/h
Dammam (SA) / me-central2
0.0532 USD/h 0.2902 USD/h

Processor

vCPUs
4
CPU Allocation
Dedicated
CPU Cores
2
CPU Architecture
x86_64
CPU Manufacturer
Intel
CPU L1D Cache
48 KiB
CPU L1D Cache Total
96 KiB
CPU L1I Cache
32 KiB
CPU L1I Cache Total
64 KiB
CPU L2 Cache
2 MiB
CPU L2 Cache Total
4 MiB
CPU L3 Cache
260 MiB
CPU L3 Cache Total
260 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, smx, est, ssse3, sdbg, fma, cx16, xtpr, pdcm, pcid, dca, sse4_1, sse4_2, x2apic, movbe, popcnt, aes, xsave, avx, f16c, rdrand, hypervisor, lahf_lm, abm, 3dnowprefetch, cat_l3, cat_l2, cdp_l3, cdp_l2, ssbd, mba, ibrs, ibpb, stibp, ibrs_enhanced, fsgsbase, tsc_adjust, bmi1, hle, avx2, smep, bmi2, erms, invpcid, rtm, avx512f, avx512dq, rdseed, adx, smap, avx512ifma, clflushopt, clwb, avx512cd, sha_ni, avx512bw, avx512vl, xsaveopt, xsavec, xgetbv1, xsaves, cqm_llc, cqm_occup_llc, cqm_mbm_total, cqm_mbm_local, avx_vnni, avx512_bf16, wbnoinvd, arat, avx512vbmi, umip, avx512_vbmi2, gfni, vaes, vpclmulqdq, avx512_vnni, avx512_bitalg, avx512_vpopcntdq, la57, rdpid, cldemote, movdiri, movdir64b, fsrm, md_clear, serialize, tsxldtrk, amx_bf16, avx512_fp16, amx_tile, amx_int8, arch_capabilities
Ecpus
2.1
Scalability
105

System Resources and Accelerators

MEMORY
Memory Amount
16 GiB
Memory Amount Actual
16 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 balanced general-purpose instance featuring dedicated Intel processors and advanced matrix extensions for entry-level workloads.

      General Purpose

      Google Cloud Platform n4-standard-4 is a general-purpose virtual machine instance configured with 4 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM, providing a balanced 4.0 GB of memory per core. Powered by an Intel x86_64 processor with 2 physical cores and 2 threads per core, it features a dedicated CPU allocation and a 260 MB L3 cache. The hardware supports advanced instruction sets including AVX-512 and Intel AMX for matrix operations, though it lacks local storage and GPU accelerators. Benchmark data shows average single-core performance, with a Geekbench single-core score of 1807.0, but weaker multi-core scaling and memory bandwidth. This instance is best suited for lightweight workloads such as static web serving, basic text processing, and single-threaded applications, offering a cost-efficient entry point for general-purpose computing where high-throughput multi-threading and local storage are not required.

      Economics

      Average Price per Region

      Prices per Zone

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      Performance

      Workload Profiles

      0.391Score
      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) 608,187 ops/sec 1,917,397 ops/sec 0.317 50.00% 50.00% -43.70%
      Redis RPS (pipeline=16, SET) 3,121,720 ops/sec 11,681,410 ops/sec 0.267 20.00% 20.00% -23.20%
      PassMark Memory Mark (composite) 1,558 2,418 0.644 10.00% 10.00% -4.31%
      Memory bandwidth (read, 16 MB ~ L3) 59,596 MB/sec 108,140 MB/sec 0.551 10.00% 10.00% -5.79%
      PassMark single-thread CPU 2,416 Mops/s 2,365 Mops/s 1.02 10.00% 10.00% +0.20%

      Memory Bandwidth

      Compression

      OpenSSL

      Geekbench Single-Core

      Score: 1,807

      Geekbench Multi-Core

      Score: 4,100

      Passmark CPU Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Mark
      		 6011
      Compression
      		 58988
      Encryption
      		 3441
      Extended Instructions
      		 4323
      Floating Point Maths
      		 10997
      Integer Maths
      		 15512
      Physics
      		 787
      Prime Numbers
      		 33
      Single Threaded
      		 2416
      String Sorting
      		 7894

      Passmark Memory Scores

      BENCHMARKSCORE
      Memory Mark
      		 1558
      Database Operations
      		 1865
      Memory Latency
      		 76
      Memory Read Cached
      		 21672
      Memory Read Uncached
      		 6875
      Memory Write
      		 6707

      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
      n4-highcpu-2 24 GiB0
      n4-standard-2 28 GiB0
      n4-highmem-2 216 GiB0
      n4-highcpu-4 48 GiB0
      n4-highmem-4 432 GiB0
      n4-highcpu-8 816 GiB0
      n4-standard-8 832 GiB0

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