Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:41:06 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-27-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
50
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
3
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.
CPU
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,394.45
2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,788.90
5,786.33
Events per Second
704.30
1,021.39
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.23
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.04
2.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.73
1.12
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,595,908.88
4,986,398.08
Mebibytes per second
3,511.63
4,869.53
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.61
0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,455,305.83
5,001,584.28
Mebibytes per second
3,374.32
4,884.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.29
0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,878.82
5,577.48
Writes per Second
1,252.51
3,718.32
Fsyncs per Second
4,014.75
11,911.32
Read Mebibytes per Second
29.36
87.15
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.57
58.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.08
5.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.4
0.15
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,084.67
1,709.06
Average Latency (ms)
2,093.52
1,721.94
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,098.38
1,728.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,082.91
1,739.68
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,684.00
7,873.00
Queries per second
46,840.00
78,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.71
1.05
Average Latency (ms)
2.13
1.27
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.23
3.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
1.55
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,785.00
9,331.00
Queries per second
37,850.00
93,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.46
0.77
Average Latency (ms)
2.64
1.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.7
6.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
1.47
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,104.00
3,770.00
Queries per second
21,040.00
37,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
2.02
Average Latency (ms)
4.75
2.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.72
13.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
3.3
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,970.00
16,828.00
Queries per second
79,700.00
168,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.8
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.25
0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.57
3.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
0.78
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
1,201,092.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
700.22
343.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
107,531.00
197,771.00
Queries per second
1,075,310.00
1,977,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.09
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.82
2.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.13
0.08
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,796.00
5,632.00
Queries per second
37,960.00
56,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.93
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
2.63
1.77
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.47
5.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
2.35
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,117.00
7,779.00
Queries per second
51,170.00
77,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
1.95
1.28
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.04
3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
1.73
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,164.00
17,005.00
Queries per second
71,640.00
170,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0.43
Average Latency (ms)
1.39
0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.24
4.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
0.81
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,738.00
17,369.00
Queries per second
77,380.00
173,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.78
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
1.29
0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.75
3.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
0.75
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
52,919.00
137,403.00
Queries per second
529,190.00
1,374,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.33
1.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.04
0.14
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
28,835.06
44,563.28
PING_MBULK per Second
30,778.70
44,014.08
SET per Second
28,918.45
44,782.80
GET per Second
28,669.72
43,440.48
INCR per Second
30,656.04
42,553.19
LPUSH per Second
30,911.90
44,702.73
RPUSH per Second
26,968.72
44,014.08
LPOP per Second
30,618.49
42,863.27
RPOP per Second
31,123.56
43,047.79
SADD per Second
30,358.23
44,345.89
HSET per Second
29,299.74
43,917.44
SPOP per Second
30,627.87
43,554.01
ZADD per Second
30,358.23
44,052.86
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,367.63
44,523.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
22,138.59
29,239.77
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
11,909.01
16,025.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
7,708.32
11,116.05
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,203.57
9,961.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,312.21
40,783.04
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.68
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.67
SET
1.05
0.68
GET
1.05
0.69
INCR
0.98
0.71
LPUSH
0.98
0.68
RPUSH
1.15
0.70
LPOP
1.00
0.72
RPOP
0.98
0.72
SADD
0.99
0.69
HSET
1.03
0.70
SPOP
0.97
0.70
ZADD
1.00
0.70
ZPOPMIN
0.95
0.68
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.44
1.08
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.62
1.96
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.84
2.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.05
3.15
MSET (10 keys)
1.07
0.80
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance from Vultr outperforms the Cloud Compute (1 GB) in nearly every benchmark category, most notably in Redis benchmarks where it achieves significantly higher requests per second (e.g., LPUSH with 44,702.73 rps compared to 30,911.9 rps) and lower latencies. This instance also excels in CPU, file IO, and memory benchmarks, demonstrating superior throughput and lower latencies. For users needing higher performance and more RAM, especially for CPU-intensive tasks or high-demand databases, the High Performance Intel (2 GB) is the clear winner.
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