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Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:03:02 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:02 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 $12.00
RAM (GB) 1 2
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 64
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS) Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,400.00 3,696.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,799.99 7,391.99
Events per Second 763.23 1,429.28
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.11 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.31 0.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.63 3.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.44 0.8

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,905,870.09 7,573,259.47
Mebibytes per second 3,814.33 7,395.76
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.72 0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,886,921.83 7,520,809.77
Mebibytes per second 3,795.82 7,344.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second 1,890.03 4,743.82
Writes per Second 1,259.95 3,162.54
Fsyncs per Second 4,040.16 10,128.84
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.53 74.12
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.69 49.41
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.59 2.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 0.16

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,141.87 1,135.02
Average Latency (ms) 2,158.92 1,145.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,165.16 1,150.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,159.29 1,149.76

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,168.00 10,014.00
Queries per second 51,680.00 100,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.65 0.91
Average Latency (ms) 1.93 1
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.8 2.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 1.14

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,072.00 11,181.00
Queries per second 30,720.00 111,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.58 0.58
Average Latency (ms) 3.71 0.89
Maximum Latency (ms) 3416.63 7.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.07 1.16

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,195.00 4,056.00
Queries per second 21,950.00 40,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.59 1.7
Average Latency (ms) 4.55 2.46
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.62 19.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.28 3.82

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,793.00 20,663.00
Queries per second 67,930.00 206,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.03 0.32
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 42.94 5.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.89 0.64

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 931,337.00 1,870,967.00
Queries per second 9,313,370.00 18,709,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 595.92 227.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 112,159.00 229,513.00
Queries per second 1,121,590.00 2,295,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.1 1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.13 0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 4,115.00 7,697.00
Queries per second 41,150.00 76,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 2.43 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.44 4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 1.67

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,698.00 10,600.00
Queries per second 56,980.00 106,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 1.75 0.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.36 2.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.35 1.25

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,594.00 19,067.00
Queries per second 65,940.00 190,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1 0.32
Average Latency (ms) 1.51 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.54 3.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 0.73

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 6,477.00 20,161.00
Queries per second 64,770.00 201,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.02 0.32
Average Latency (ms) 1.54 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.4 11.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 0.67

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second 48,339.00 155,087.00
Queries per second 483,390.00 1,550,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.21 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.17 3.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.09

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 33,288.95 57,937.43
PING_MBULK per Second 33,704.08 57,670.13
SET per Second 33,456.00 60,096.15
GET per Second 32,010.24 60,938.45
INCR per Second 30,147.72 58,105.75
LPUSH per Second 28,232.64 59,453.03
RPUSH per Second 32,552.08 60,827.25
LPOP per Second 32,414.91 60,864.27
RPOP per Second 32,195.75 61,312.08
SADD per Second 32,278.89 59,066.75
HSET per Second 32,776.14 59,066.75
SPOP per Second 30,147.72 59,276.82
ZADD per Second 25,412.96 58,105.75
ZPOPMIN per Second 25,920.17 59,594.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 19,098.55 38,986.36
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 11,506.16 22,753.13
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,970.67 15,583.61
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,017.05 14,130.28
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,165.91 54,674.69

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.920.52
PING_MBULK0.900.51
SET0.920.51
GET0.940.49
INCR1.010.51
LPUSH1.080.51
RPUSH0.940.50
LPOP0.950.51
RPOP0.960.50
SADD0.940.51
HSET0.930.51
SPOP1.010.50
ZADD1.210.52
ZPOPMIN1.160.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.650.81
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.641.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.642.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.122.35
MSET (10 keys)1.100.59

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance clearly outperforms the Cloud Compute (1 GB) in most benchmarks, especially in Redis benchmarks where the former achieves significantly higher request rates per second (rps) like 57937.43 rps for PING_INLINE compared to 33288.95 rps in the 1 GB instance. For MySQL bulk inserts, the 2 GB instance sustains 184521.71 transactions per second (tps) against the 1 GB instance's 92501.24 tps. For budget-conscious users needing a balance of performance and headroom, the 2 GB instance provides superior throughput and lower latency across most metrics, making it ideal for CPU-heavy and I/O-intensive workloads.

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