Standard_L4s

Standard_L4s is an Azure VM size with 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB memory. In East US it costs $0.343 per hour on demand ($250.39 per month) for Linux. Spot capacity is about $0.0634 per hour. It is sold in 14 regions; the cheapest is West US 2 at $0.312 per hour.

Prices by region

USD per hour, Linux. Reserved prices are no upfront, standard. Cheapest on-demand first.

Region	On-demand	Spot	1-yr savings plan	3-yr savings plan
West US 2 westus2	$0.312	$0.0577	$0.2153	$0.1466
East US eastus	$0.343	$0.0634	$0.2971	$0.2344
East US 2 eastus2	$0.343	$0.1179	$0.2367	$0.1612
Canada Central canadacentral	$0.344	$0.0948	$0.2614	$0.1892
Canada East canadaeast	$0.344	$0.0636	$0.2614	$0.1892
West US westus	$0.344	$0.0636	$0.2374	$0.1617
UK South uksouth	$0.362	$0.0669	$0.2751	$0.1991
Japan East japaneast	$0.366	$0.0676	$0.2782	$0.2013
West Europe westeurope	$0.372	$0.0687	$0.2827	$0.2046
Australia East australiaeast	$0.374	$0.0692	$0.2842	$0.2057
Southeast Asia southeastasia	$0.374	$0.0691	$0.2842	$0.2057
US Gov Arizona usgovarizona	$0.376	$0.0695	–	–
US Gov Texas usgovtexas	$0.376	$0.0695	–	–
US Gov Virginia usgovvirginia	$0.376	$0.0695	–	–

Reserved and Savings Plans Spot prices by region Windows prices by region AWS equivalents

Prices by operating system in East US

Operating system	On-demand /hr	1-yr reserved /hr	3-yr reserved /hr
Linux	$0.343	–	–
Windows	$0.889	–	–

Specs

Compute	Value
vCPUs	4
Physical cores	4
Threads per core	1
Architecture	x86_64
ACU (compute units)	180

Memory	Value
Memory (GiB)	32

Networking	Value
Accelerated networking	No
Max network interfaces	2

Storage	Value
Temp disk	678 GiB
Max data disks	16
Premium SSD	Yes
Max disk IOPS (uncached)	5,000
Max disk throughput (uncached)	125 MB/s
Ephemeral OS disk	Yes

Instance details	Value
Instance type	Standard_L4s
Family	Ls
VM generations	V1, V2
Encryption at host	Yes
Retirement date	2028-05-01

Other	Value
Specs source	Azure Resource SKUs API

Compare Standard_L4s

Other generations

vs Standard_L4s_v4

Other Ls sizes

Size	vCPUs	Memory (GiB)	On-demand /hr
Standard_L4s	4	32	$0.343
Standard_L8s	8	64	$0.686

Prices updated 2026-11-12 from the Azure Retail Prices API. Compare all Azure VM sizes.