How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $15.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 65 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)?

Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 65 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for $15.00/mo.

Vultr Cloud Compute 2 GB, 2 Cores ($15/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 03:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-111-generic	6.8.0-111-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	Newark, NJ	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$15.00	$48.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	2	4
Storage (TB)	65	180
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	6

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,792.00	2,900.01
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	7,583.99	5,800.01
Events per Second	1,481.60	4,660.86
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.63	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.95	0.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.77	0.22

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	6,401,389.08	7,566,222.56
Mebibytes per second	6,251.36	7,388.89
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.23	0.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	6,411,085.35	7,552,490.67
Mebibytes per second	6,260.83	7,375.48
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.18	0.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,345.71	8,517.51
Writes per Second	2,897.07	5,678.37
Fsyncs per Second	9,273.19	18,177.50
Read Mebibytes per Second	67.90	133.09
Written Mebibytes per Second	45.27	88.72
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.92	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.1

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	214.63	165.23
Average Latency (ms)	569.72	285.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	636.55	342.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	634.66	344.08

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,015.00	10,922.00
Queries per second	80,150.00	109,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.92	0.75
Average Latency (ms)	1.25	0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.5	1.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,497.00	9,482.00
Queries per second	84,970.00	94,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.76	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.17	1.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.04	2.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,726.00	4,832.00
Queries per second	37,260.00	48,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.78	1.55
Average Latency (ms)	2.68	2.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.82	3.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.43	2.35

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,028.00	15,179.00
Queries per second	150,280.00	151,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.66	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.42	13.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	0.81

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,696,217.00	3,006,842.00
Queries per second	16,962,170.00	30,068,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	283.37	190.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	201,989.00	235,314.00
Queries per second	2,019,890.00	2,353,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.51	0.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,025.00	15,165.00
Queries per second	80,250.00	151,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.35	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.24	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.55	2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.84

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,336.00	14,400.00
Queries per second	83,360.00	144,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.17
Average Latency (ms)	1.2	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.25	1.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.22	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,858.00	14,535.00
Queries per second	138,580.00	145,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.72	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.33	2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.95	0.86

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,587.00	14,543.00
Queries per second	145,870.00	145,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	0.68	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.69	1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.9	0.84

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	129,013.00	154,046.00
Queries per second	1,290,130.00	1,540,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.61	3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	78,247.26	62,695.92
PING_MBULK per Second	74,738.41	65,274.15
SET per Second	77,041.60	58,343.06
GET per Second	83,333.33	58,616.65
INCR per Second	80,971.66	57,803.47
LPUSH per Second	79,113.92	57,636.89
RPUSH per Second	77,160.49	58,616.65
LPOP per Second	81,499.59	57,504.31
RPOP per Second	82,440.23	57,670.13
SADD per Second	80,192.46	58,173.36
HSET per Second	83,612.04	58,513.75
SPOP per Second	85,034.02	58,445.36
ZADD per Second	83,263.95	58,513.75
ZPOPMIN per Second	82,987.55	57,438.25
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	55,555.56	48,123.20
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	28,851.70	33,806.62
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	19,391.12	26,109.66
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	17,211.71	23,369.95
MSET (10 keys) per Second	80,256.82	59,488.40

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.34	0.41
PING_MBULK	0.35	0.39
SET	0.34	0.44
GET	0.32	0.44
INCR	0.32	0.45
LPUSH	0.34	0.45
RPUSH	0.34	0.44
LPOP	0.32	0.45
RPOP	0.32	0.45
SADD	0.32	0.44
HSET	0.31	0.44
SPOP	0.30	0.44
ZADD	0.31	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.31	0.45
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.54	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.11	0.76
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.62	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.84	1.08
MSET (10 keys)	0.38	0.43

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark results, it's evident that the Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) in almost all metrics. The High Performance instance provides superior CPU performance, with significantly higher requests per second and lower latency for Redis commands like PING_INLINE, SET, and LPUSH. It also excels in memory operations, delivering higher throughput and lower latencies. The file I/O operations and MySQL benchmarks show marked improvements in the High Performance instance, making it better suited for I/O-heavy and database-intensive workloads. Conversely, the Cloud Compute instance, though adequate for lighter workloads, lags behind in CPU, memory, and I/O performance. Ideal use cases for the Cloud Compute instance would include basic web hosting or low-demand applications, whereas the High Performance instance is ideal for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy, or database-heavy applications requiring high throughput and low latency.

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Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)