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

Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) is $10.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $40.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

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

Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $10.00/mo.

Vultr Cloud Compute 2 GB ($10/mo) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute 8 GB, 4 Cores ($40/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! 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 all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:52 GMT	Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-117-generic	6.8.0-117-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	$10.00	$40.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	1	4
Storage (TB)	50	160
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,792.00	2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,583.99	5,187.80
Events per Second	1,570.19	1,100.82
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.88
Average Latency (ms)	0.64	0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.42	1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.68	0.97

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,754,811.85	3,685,781.23
Mebibytes per second	7,573.06	3,599.40
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.15	1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,660,018.80	3,590,629.63
Mebibytes per second	7,480.49	3,506.47
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.16	1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,923.75	4,999.39
Writes per Second	3,282.50	3,332.93
Fsyncs per Second	10,516.60	10,670.47
Read Mebibytes per Second	76.93	78.12
Written Mebibytes per Second	51.29	52.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.71	37.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.18

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,097.77	369.37
Average Latency (ms)	1,106.88	416.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,113.46	441.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,109.09	442.73

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,573.00	5,144.00
Queries per second	105,730.00	51,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	1.72
Average Latency (ms)	0.94	1.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.44	7.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.01	2.35

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,479.00	5,108.00
Queries per second	94,790.00	51,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.68	1.15
Average Latency (ms)	1.05	1.96
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.67	12.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.42	2.71

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,345.00	2,247.00
Queries per second	43,450.00	22,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.81	3.08
Average Latency (ms)	2.3	4.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.56	29.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	5.28

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,503.00	7,630.00
Queries per second	165,030.00	76,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.71
Average Latency (ms)	0.6	1.31
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.13	29.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.78	1.55

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,103,967.00	898,571.00
Queries per second	21,039,670.00	8,985,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	228.8	505.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	231,690.00	149,465.00
Queries per second	2,316,900.00	1,494,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.93	1.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,866.00	4,249.00
Queries per second	108,660.00	42,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.32	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.92	2.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.21	6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.18	3.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,969.00	2,637.00
Queries per second	109,690.00	26,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.23	0.94
Average Latency (ms)	0.91	3.79
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.54	6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.18	5.09

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,225.00	7,166.00
Queries per second	152,250.00	71,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	0.66	1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.32	28.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.92	1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,166.00	7,661.00
Queries per second	161,660.00	76,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.03	33.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.81	1.58

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	141,631.00	69,690.00
Queries per second	1,416,310.00	696,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.27	27.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.87

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,083.29	54,436.58
PING_MBULK per Second	54,854.64	48,828.12
SET per Second	54,734.54	51,572.98
GET per Second	55,157.20	48,239.27
INCR per Second	55,218.11	52,328.62
LPUSH per Second	54,495.91	45,454.54
RPUSH per Second	53,276.50	49,751.24
LPOP per Second	52,994.17	53,390.28
RPOP per Second	53,022.27	53,648.07
SADD per Second	53,533.19	48,285.85
HSET per Second	53,219.80	51,493.30
SPOP per Second	53,333.33	52,910.05
ZADD per Second	54,585.15	53,504.55
ZPOPMIN per Second	55,340.34	53,590.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	37,202.38	28,645.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	20,316.95	13,131.98
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	14,148.27	8,529.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	12,487.51	7,479.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second	51,308.36	49,212.60

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.61	0.47
PING_MBULK	0.59	0.53
SET	0.60	0.50
GET	0.59	0.54
INCR	0.59	0.49
LPUSH	0.60	0.58
RPUSH	0.62	0.52
LPOP	0.62	0.49
RPOP	0.62	0.48
SADD	0.61	0.54
HSET	0.62	0.53
SPOP	0.61	0.49
ZADD	0.60	0.48
ZPOPMIN	0.59	0.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.92	0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.71	1.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.54	3.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.89	3.43
MSET (10 keys)	0.67	0.77

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmarks from both Vultr instances, it is evident that the Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance significantly outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance across various metrics. The 8 GB instance demonstrates much higher performance in Redis operations, achieving substantially higher requests per second and lower average latencies for most commands, alongside better CPU performance and greater I/O throughput. While the 2 GB instance has competitive I/O and memory performance metrics, its single CPU core and lower RAM limit its throughput and responsiveness, especially in CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads. Therefore, the Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance is recommended for use cases requiring high concurrency, intensive computation, or large datasets, such as high-traffic web applications, database servers, or large-scale caching solutions.

From the friendly human:

If you found this VPS Showdown helpful in your search for a hosting provider, please consider supporting my efforts by signing up using my referral link for Vultr.

You can also support me directly by buying me a coffee.

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