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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (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 Intel 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 15:00:51 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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,792.00	2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,583.99	5,786.33
Events per Second	1,481.60	1,059.70
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.63	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.67	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.95	3.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.77	1.14

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	6,401,389.08	4,705,509.24
Mebibytes per second	6,251.36	4,595.22
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.23	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	6,411,085.35	4,676,375.38
Mebibytes per second	6,260.83	4,566.77
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.18	3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,345.71	5,906.11
Writes per Second	2,897.07	3,937.40
Fsyncs per Second	9,273.19	12,611.69
Read Mebibytes per Second	67.90	92.28
Written Mebibytes per Second	45.27	61.52
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.92	82.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.14

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	214.63	408.47
Average Latency (ms)	569.72	478.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	636.55	528.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	634.66	530.08

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,015.00	5,148.00
Queries per second	80,150.00	51,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.92	1.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.25	1.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.5	16.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	2.66

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,497.00	4,781.00
Queries per second	84,970.00	47,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.76	1.01
Average Latency (ms)	1.17	2.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.04	9.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	3.07

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,726.00	2,243.00
Queries per second	37,260.00	22,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.78	2.88
Average Latency (ms)	2.68	4.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.82	24.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.43	6.09

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,028.00	6,381.00
Queries per second	150,280.00	63,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.61
Average Latency (ms)	0.66	1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.42	29.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	2.52

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,696,217.00	1,346,717.00
Queries per second	16,962,170.00	13,467,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	283.37	473.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	201,989.00	151,547.00
Queries per second	2,019,890.00	1,515,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.51	3.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,025.00	5,574.00
Queries per second	80,250.00	55,740.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.35	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	1.24	1.79
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.55	7.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	2.57

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,336.00	6,208.00
Queries per second	83,360.00	62,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.59
Average Latency (ms)	1.2	1.61
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.25	36.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.22	2.39

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,858.00	8,467.00
Queries per second	138,580.00	84,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.51
Average Latency (ms)	0.72	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.33	30.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.95	1.73

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,587.00	8,471.00
Queries per second	145,870.00	84,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.52
Average Latency (ms)	0.68	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.69	61.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.9	1.73

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	129,013.00	68,717.00
Queries per second	1,290,130.00	687,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.61	18.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.87

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	78,247.26	47,236.65
PING_MBULK per Second	74,738.41	49,067.71
SET per Second	77,041.60	45,641.26
GET per Second	83,333.33	45,495.91
INCR per Second	80,971.66	50,709.94
LPUSH per Second	79,113.92	47,505.94
RPUSH per Second	77,160.49	52,938.06
LPOP per Second	81,499.59	50,735.67
RPOP per Second	82,440.23	52,083.34
SADD per Second	80,192.46	46,232.08
HSET per Second	83,612.04	49,701.79
SPOP per Second	85,034.02	48,638.13
ZADD per Second	83,263.95	50,968.40
ZPOPMIN per Second	82,987.55	50,175.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	55,555.56	28,050.49
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	28,851.70	18,871.49
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	19,391.12	14,110.34
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	17,211.71	10,855.41
MSET (10 keys) per Second	80,256.82	46,274.87

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.34	0.56
PING_MBULK	0.35	0.56
SET	0.34	0.59
GET	0.32	0.59
INCR	0.32	0.52
LPUSH	0.34	0.56
RPUSH	0.34	0.50
LPOP	0.32	0.52
RPOP	0.32	0.52
SADD	0.32	0.61
HSET	0.31	0.53
SPOP	0.30	0.54
ZADD	0.31	0.53
ZPOPMIN	0.31	0.53
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.54	1.06
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.11	1.68
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.62	2.30
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.84	2.96
MSET (10 keys)	0.38	0.65

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the two Vultr instances, the High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance demonstrates superior overall performance across various metrics due to its higher CPU power, more RAM, and NVMe storage. It achieves higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies in Redis benchmarks like GET, SET, and LPUSH, as well as better CPU, file I/O, memory, and MySQL performance. However, the Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance still performs adequately for less demanding tasks and offers better price-performance for users prioritizing cost over raw performance, making it ideal for less CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads, or when budget constraints are a concern.

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