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Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:03:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:02 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-28-generic 7.0.0-28-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
Location Newark, NJ Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $5.00 $10.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 50
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS) Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,400.00 2,593.91
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,799.99 5,187.82
Events per Second 763.23 929.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.11 0.95
Average Latency (ms) 1.31 1.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.63 2.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.44 1.39

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,905,870.09 3,441,276.65
Mebibytes per second 3,814.33 3,360.62
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.72 1.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,886,921.83 3,505,662.23
Mebibytes per second 3,795.82 3,423.50
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,890.03 2,556.83
Writes per Second 1,259.95 1,704.52
Fsyncs per Second 4,040.16 5,461.18
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.53 39.95
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.69 26.63
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.59 36.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 0.24

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,141.87 1,783.52
Average Latency (ms) 2,158.92 1,799.40
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,165.16 1,810.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,159.29 1,803.47

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,168.00 5,535.00
Queries per second 51,680.00 55,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.65 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 1.93 1.8
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.8 4.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 2.07

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,072.00 5,739.00
Queries per second 30,720.00 57,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.58 1.19
Average Latency (ms) 3.71 1.74
Maximum Latency (ms) 3416.63 29.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 2.35

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,195.00 2,265.00
Queries per second 21,950.00 22,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.59 3.24
Average Latency (ms) 4.55 4.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.62 30.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.28 5.67

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,793.00 11,053.00
Queries per second 67,930.00 110,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.03 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 0.9
Maximum Latency (ms) 42.94 17.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 1.16

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 931,337.00 701,975.00
Queries per second 9,313,370.00 7,019,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 595.92 625.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 112,159.00 152,246.00
Queries per second 1,121,590.00 1,522,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.1 1.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.13 0.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,115.00 3,020.00
Queries per second 41,150.00 30,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.76
Average Latency (ms) 2.43 3.31
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.44 8.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 4.33

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,698.00 2,424.00
Queries per second 56,980.00 24,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 1.46
Average Latency (ms) 1.75 4.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.36 7.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.35 5.47

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,594.00 10,298.00
Queries per second 65,940.00 102,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1 0.64
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 0.97
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.54 20.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 1.39

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,477.00 10,146.00
Queries per second 64,770.00 101,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.02 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 1.54 0.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.4 16.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 1.34

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second 48,339.00 87,018.00
Queries per second 483,390.00 870,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.11
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.17 112.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.23

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 33,288.95 31,908.10
PING_MBULK per Second 33,704.08 33,014.20
SET per Second 33,456.00 32,237.27
GET per Second 32,010.24 32,404.41
INCR per Second 30,147.72 33,300.03
LPUSH per Second 28,232.64 32,722.51
RPUSH per Second 32,552.08 32,404.41
LPOP per Second 32,414.91 32,206.12
RPOP per Second 32,195.75 35,063.11
SADD per Second 32,278.89 34,746.35
HSET per Second 32,776.14 35,001.75
SPOP per Second 30,147.72 35,701.54
ZADD per Second 25,412.96 34,602.07
ZPOPMIN per Second 25,920.17 33,898.30
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 19,098.55 16,764.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 11,506.16 7,578.63
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,970.67 4,631.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,017.05 4,000.80
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,165.91 25,297.24

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.920.96
PING_MBULK0.900.92
SET0.920.97
GET0.940.95
INCR1.010.94
LPUSH1.080.95
RPUSH0.940.96
LPOP0.950.97
RPOP0.960.90
SADD0.940.89
HSET0.930.90
SPOP1.010.87
ZADD1.210.91
ZPOPMIN1.160.91
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.651.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.643.87
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.646.03
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.126.91
MSET (10 keys)1.101.53

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The 2 GB instance clearly outperforms the 1 GB instance in almost all benchmarks, particularly evident in Redis operations like LRANGE_500 with 7971 RPS for the 1 GB instance versus 4632 RPS for the 2 GB instance, and in MySQL bulk insert with 92501 TPS for the 1 GB instance versus 68809 TPS for the 2 GB instance. This suggests that the 2 GB instance is significantly better for CPU-intensive tasks and large memory operations, making it ideal for applications requiring higher performance and more resources.

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