m4.large

Custom Intel Xeon E5-2676 (2.4 GHz) or Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) processors, specifically optimized for EC2 General purpose instance type, offering a balance of compute, memory, and network resources. They are EBS-optimized by default and support Enhanced Networking

available for self-hosted runners on RunsOn

cpu speed · passmark single-thread

1,547pts

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz (x86_64)
averaged over many days · higher is faster

vcpus

physical threads

memory

7.7 GiB

ram

clock speed

2.4 GHz

max frequency

architecture

x86_64

EC2 instance family: m4

What the family is built for, the silicon underneath, and how to ask RunsOn for it.

m4 general purpose

cpu type

Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell) — Custom Intel Xeon E5-2676 (2.4 GHz) or Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) processors, specifically optimized for EC2

architecture

x86_64 · x86_64

highlights

General purpose instance type, offering a balance of compute, memory, and network resources. They are EBS-optimized by default and support Enhanced Networking

released

June 2015. Status: Considered a Previous Generation Instance. Although AWS still supports it, users are encouraged to upgrade to the current generation for better performance. The instance type is scheduled for end-of-life for various Amazon RDS database services

.github/workflows/ci.yml yaml

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on:
      - runs-on=${{ github.run_id }}
      - family=m4
      - cpu=2

the label is a query — each line one constraint, resolved at launch. job labels →

Availability & price by region

Spot is the average price RunsOn pays in your own AWS account — no per-minute markup. The bar shows how far under on-demand each region runs; the badge is the observed spot-interruption frequency.

N. Virginia

us-east-1

spot · avg $0.0542/hr

on-demand$0.1000

savings vs on-demand52%

spot interrupt freq >20%

Oregon

us-west-2

spot · avg $0.0423/hr

on-demand$0.1000

savings vs on-demand56%

spot interrupt freq 5-10%

Ireland

eu-west-1

spot · avg $0.0489/hr

on-demand$0.1110

savings vs on-demand40%

spot interrupt freq <5%

Frankfurt

eu-central-1

best spot

spot · avg $0.0513/hr

on-demand$0.1200

savings vs on-demand59%

spot interrupt freq 15-20%

Spot prices are trailing averages per region and move with the market. On-demand is the list reference. Interrupt frequency is AWS's published spot-advisor band for this instance type.

About these benchmarks

CPU is the Passmark single-thread metric, run on a live m4.large instance and averaged over many days so a single noisy run can't skew the score.

Pricing is normalized to the hourly rate AWS bills, then shown per region. Spot is the trailing average; savings is measured against the same region's on-demand list price.

This instance is launched the exact same way any RunsOn job launches it — ephemeral EC2 in your account, one CloudFormation stack, nothing to babysit.

metricpassmark · single-thread

samples21 runs

regions4 · us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-central-1

last updatedSeptember 2, 2026

Run m4.large in your own account.

The benchmark runs on the same RunsOn anyone can deploy. One CloudFormation stack, your AWS account, ~10 minutes.

self-host → ← all ec2 instances