c4-standard-4 by Google Compute Engine
Specifications and performance for Google Compute Engine - c4-standard-4
Instance Type: C4 Standard
This plan belongs to the Google Compute Engine C4 Standard server line (General Purpose).
Instance Type Description
C4 is powered by the 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (code-named Emerald Rapids). C4 offers a sustained, all-core turbo frequency of 3.1 GHz, 1.5 TB of DDR5 memory, and supports up to 200 Gbps of per VM Tier_1 networking performance.
Instance Type Specifications
| Approximate Cost per vCPU | $0.05 |
| Approximate RAM per vCPU | 4GB |
| Hourly billing | yes |
| CPU type | INTEL |
| Shared CPU | no |
| Storage included | no |
See also all Google Compute Engine instance types.
"c4-standard-4" Plan Specifications
| Provider | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|
| Plan URL | https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines |
| Price per month |
$144.30
Google Compute Engine lets you deduct $3.60 from this price if you don't need an IPv4 address. |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes: $0.1977/hour |
| Disk GB | 0 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 15 |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 0 |
| Maximum Network Speed | 23000 Mbps |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | Yes |
Badges of Quality
Badges are awards granted to VPS plans that meet certain quality criteria.
| Twenty Requests Per Core | Google Compute Engine - c4-standard-4 serves more than 20 HTTP requests per second per vCPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Over 1300 Geekbench6 Score | Google Compute Engine - c4-standard-4 serves got a Geekbench6 single core score over 1300 |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst. The grades below are those of the most recent trial run for this plan.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 45
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Google Compute Engine - c4-standard-4. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
| Yabs | Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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| Review | Review | Review | Review | Review |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
Performance trials run on the c4-standard-4 plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the c4-standard-4 plan with its grade and CPU type.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 07 2026 | INTEL(R) XEON(R) PLATINUM 8581C CPU @ 2.30GHz | Iowa, USA | D |