Instances Azure VM Standard_FX4mds Standard_FX4mds
Standard_FX4mds is an Azure VM size with 4 vCPUs, 84 GiB memory (Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake)). In East US it costs $0.372 per hour on demand ($271.56 per month) for Linux; a 1-year reserved instance with no upfront costs $0.2195 per hour, 41% less. Spot capacity is about $0.0687 per hour. It is sold in 21 regions.
USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.
Region On-demand Spot 1-yr reserved 3-yr reserved 1-yr savings plan 3-yr savings plan East US eastus $0.372 $0.0687 $0.2195 $0.1339 $0.2567 $0.1748 East US 2 eastus2 $0.372 $0.0687 $0.2195 $0.1339 $0.2567 $0.1748 West US 2 westus2 $0.372 $0.0687 $0.2195 $0.1339 $0.2567 $0.1748 Canada Central canadacentral $0.384 $0.071 $0.2266 $0.1459 $0.2842 $0.1997 Canada East canadaeast $0.384 $0.071 $0.2266 $0.1459 $0.2842 $0.1997 Central India centralindia $0.392 $0.0724 $0.2313 $0.1411 $0.2666 $0.1686 North Europe northeurope $0.416 $0.0769 $0.2454 $0.1539 $0.287 $0.183 West US 3 westus3 $0.422 $0.078 $0.249 $0.1519 $0.2862 $0.1815 UK South uksouth $0.44 $0.0813 $0.2596 $0.1628 $0.2992 $0.1936 South Central US southcentralus $0.446 $0.0824 $0.2634 $0.1607 $0.3077 $0.2096 Germany West Central germanywestcentral $0.45 $0.0832 $0.2655 $0.1665 $0.3105 $0.198 Korea Central koreacentral $0.45 $0.0832 $0.2655 $0.162 $0.342 $0.2475 West Europe westeurope $0.45 $0.0832 $0.2655 $0.162 $0.342 $0.2475 Australia East australiaeast $0.452 $0.0835 $0.2667 $0.1627 $0.3074 $0.1944 Southeast Asia southeastasia $0.452 $0.0835 $0.2667 $0.1718 $0.3074 $0.2079 Japan East japaneast $0.454 $0.0839 $0.2678 $0.1634 $0.345 $0.2497 US Gov Arizona usgovarizona $0.465 $0.0859 $0.2743 $0.1674 – – US Gov Texas usgovtexas $0.465 $0.0859 $0.2743 $0.1674 – – US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia $0.465 $0.0859 $0.2743 $0.1674 – – Brazil South brazilsouth $0.556 $0.1027 $0.3281 $0.2113 $0.4114 $0.2836 Brazil Southeast brazilsoutheast $0.723 $0.1336 $0.4265 $0.2747 $0.535 $0.3687
Prices by operating system in East US Operating system On-demand /hr 1-yr reserved /hr 3-yr reserved /hr Linux $0.372 $0.2195 $0.1339 Windows $0.556 $0.4035 $0.3179
Compute Value vCPUs 4 Physical cores 2 Threads per core 2 Architecture x86_64 Processor Intel Xeon Gold 6246R (Cascade Lake) ACU (compute units) 310
Memory Value Memory (GiB) 84
Networking Value Network 4 Gbps Accelerated networking Yes Max network interfaces 2
Storage Value Storage 168 GiB temp SSD Temp disk 168 GiB Max data disks 8 Premium SSD Yes Max disk IOPS (uncached) 6,700 Max disk throughput (uncached) 105 MB/s Ephemeral OS disk Yes
Instance details Value Instance type Standard_FX4mds Family FXmds Category Compute optimized VM generations V2 Encryption at host Yes
Other Value Series fx-series Specs source Azure Resource SKUs API
Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes .