Compare GCP Instances
| c4-standard-4 | c4a-highmem-4 |
| High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 4 – Generation standard – 4x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs | High-performance web servers, scientific modeling, batch processing, distributed analytics, HPC, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. c – Compute optimized 4 – Generation highmem – 8x RAM/CPU ratio 4 – Number of CPUs |
| General-purpose | General-purpose |
| 4 vCPUs, 15 GB RAM | 4 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM |
| 4 | 4 |
| 15 GiB | 32 GiB |
| x86_64 | arm64 |
| Intel Emerald Rapids and Granite Rapids | Google Axion |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | no |
| no | no |
| no | no |
| 128 | 16 |
| 524288 GB | 263168 GB |
| NVMe | NVMe |
| yes | yes |
| 18000 GB | 6000 GB |
| no | no |
| yes | yes |
| yes | yes |
| gVNIC, IDPF | gVNIC, IDPF |
| 1.00x | 1.15x |
Regional Prices
Geography | Region | c4-standard-4 | c4a-highmem-4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-1) | 0.1977 | 0.2358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-10) | 0.2177 | 0.2655 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-11) | 0.2177 | 0.2688 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-12) | 0.2177 | 0.2730 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-13) | 0.2177 | 0.2782 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-14) | 0.2177 | 0.2782 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-15) | 0.2226 | 0.2834 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-16) | 0.2253 | 0.2853 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-17) | 0.2289 | 0.2909 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-18) | 0.2293 | 0.2947 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-19) | 0.2293 | 0.3028 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-2) | 0.1977 | 0.2358 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-20) | 0.2333 | 0.3064 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-21) | 0.2333 | 0.3371 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-22) | 0.2333 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-23) | 0.2376 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-24) | 0.2376 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-25) | 0.2392 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-26) | 0.2402 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-27) | 0.2439 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-28) | 0.2471 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-29) | 0.2538 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-3) | 0.2056 | 0.2452 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-30) | 0.2538 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-31) | 0.2538 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-32) | 0.2570 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-33) | 0.2590 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-34) | 0.2658 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-35) | 0.2765 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-36) | 0.2827 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-37) | 0.3139 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-38) | 0.3163 | n/a |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-4) | 0.2056 | 0.2476 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-5) | 0.2075 | 0.2570 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-6) | 0.2076 | 0.2596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-7) | 0.2076 | 0.2596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-8) | 0.2155 | 0.2596 |
| Hidden | Hidden (hidden-9) | 0.2174 | 0.2596 |
| North America | Iowa (us-central1) | 0.1977 | 0.2358 |
| North America | South Carolina (us-east1) | 0.1977 | 0.2358 |
| North America | Virginia (us-east4) | 0.1977 | 0.2358 |