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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running 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 (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:33:36 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:06 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 $10.00 $6.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 32
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

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

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,791.94 3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,583.88 7,583.94
Events per Second 1,435.42 1,438.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.15 4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 0.75

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,568,455.18 7,522,138.15
Mebibytes per second 7,391.07 7,345.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,598,419.58 7,678,825.83
Mebibytes per second 7,420.33 7,498.85
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.68 0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 4,001.75 4,258.17
Writes per Second 2,667.80 2,838.78
Fsyncs per Second 8,546.24 9,093.60
Read Mebibytes per Second 62.53 66.53
Written Mebibytes per Second 41.68 44.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.03 9.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,145.72 1,111.88
Average Latency (ms) 1,154.58 1,119.47
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,160.32 1,123.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,170.65 1,129.24

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,706.00 10,279.00
Queries per second 97,060.00 102,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 1.03 0.97
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.49 11.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.18 1.06

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,666.00 10,923.00
Queries per second 76,660.00 109,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 158.72 14.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.42 1.18

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,938.00 4,879.00
Queries per second 39,380.00 48,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.82 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 2.54 2.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 51.37 8.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 2.35

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 18,012.00 18,630.00
Queries per second 180,120.00 186,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.55 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 44.86 14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.73 0.69

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,870,967.00 1,900,092.00
Queries per second 18,709,670.00 19,000,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 225.74 218.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 213,062.00 216,614.00
Queries per second 2,130,620.00 2,166,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.04 4.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,351.00 8,497.00
Queries per second 73,510.00 84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 1.36 1.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.95 3.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 1.5

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,954.00 11,456.00
Queries per second 99,540.00 114,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.27 0.3
Average Latency (ms) 1 0.87
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.46 3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.58 1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 16,749.00 18,358.00
Queries per second 167,490.00 183,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.6 0.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 83.31 7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.72

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 17,638.00 18,692.00
Queries per second 176,380.00 186,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.37
Average Latency (ms) 0.57 0.53
Maximum Latency (ms) 77.2 9.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.75 0.69

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 145,888.00 158,377.00
Queries per second 1,458,880.00 1,583,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.51 4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.09

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 50,838.84 54,259.36
PING_MBULK per Second 50,761.42 53,504.55
SET per Second 52,192.07 54,854.64
GET per Second 52,383.45 54,288.82
INCR per Second 52,938.06 54,704.60
LPUSH per Second 51,813.47 53,050.40
RPUSH per Second 51,572.98 53,908.36
LPOP per Second 50,968.40 53,333.33
RPOP per Second 50,479.56 52,521.01
SADD per Second 51,308.36 52,994.17
HSET per Second 49,925.11 52,410.90
SPOP per Second 50,890.59 50,761.42
ZADD per Second 50,505.05 47,528.52
ZPOPMIN per Second 50,968.40 50,075.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 34,399.72 32,992.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 20,016.01 21,404.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 14,332.81 15,762.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,966.80 13,661.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,603.17 51,519.84

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.610.56
PING_MBULK0.600.56
SET0.590.56
GET0.590.57
INCR0.590.56
LPUSH0.600.58
RPUSH0.600.57
LPOP0.610.58
RPOP0.610.59
SADD0.600.58
HSET0.620.59
SPOP0.600.60
ZADD0.610.65
ZPOPMIN0.600.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.910.96
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.611.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.252.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.522.40
MSET (10 keys)0.670.64

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instance outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance on both Redis benchmarks and MySQL bulk insert operations, showing higher requests per second and lower latencies. The High Frequency instance handles Redis PING_INLINE requests at 54,259 RPS compared to the Cloud Compute instance's 50,839 RPS, and bulk MySQL inserts at 189,867 TPS versus 186,460 TPS. For use-cases requiring high throughput and low latency, like real-time data processing or high-frequency trading platforms, the High Frequency Intel instance is more suitable, despite having less RAM.

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