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 High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 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 High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up 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. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:53 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	3

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,792.00	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,583.99	7,583.95
Events per Second	1,583.05	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.6	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	0.63	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.47	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.67	0.69

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,845,063.44	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	7,661.19	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,631,333.85	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	7,452.47	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,439.09	4,671.85
Writes per Second	3,626.06	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	11,608.88	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	84.99	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	56.66	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.72	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.16	0.17

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,137.66	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	1,150.20	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,156.48	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,149.76	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,458.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	104,580.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.9	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	0.96	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.72	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.03	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,453.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	94,530.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.66	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	1.06	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.97	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,003.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	40,030.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.86	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	2.5	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.15	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.19	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,926.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	159,260.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.63	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.51	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.84	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,958,342.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	19,583,420.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	247.36	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	211,764.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	2,117,640.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.71	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,600.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	106,000.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	0.94	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.98	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,141.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	111,410.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	0.9	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.25	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,677.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	156,770.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.39	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.64	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.64	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.92	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,119.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	161,190.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.08	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.84	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	143,360.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	1,433,600.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.7	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.07

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,764.51	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	55,340.34	89,605.73
SET per Second	54,347.82	90,171.33
GET per Second	55,493.89	90,579.71
INCR per Second	54,975.26	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	55,066.08	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	54,054.05	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	54,318.30	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	54,975.26	90,661.83
SADD per Second	55,432.37	90,252.70
HSET per Second	54,854.64	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	55,493.89	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	54,406.96	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	53,390.28	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	36,218.76	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	19,864.92	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	13,570.36	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	12,000.48	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	50,658.56	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.59	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.58	0.29
SET	0.60	0.29
GET	0.58	0.29
INCR	0.59	0.28
LPUSH	0.59	0.29
RPUSH	0.60	0.29
LPOP	0.60	0.28
RPOP	0.60	0.28
SADD	0.58	0.29
HSET	0.59	0.29
SPOP	0.58	0.29
ZADD	0.60	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.61	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.94	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.75	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.61	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.96	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.69	0.30

Conclusion

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After analyzing the benchmark results, the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance (2 GB, 2 Cores) clearly outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance in terms of overall performance metrics across different metrics, especially in CPU-intensive tasks and Redis operations where it shows significantly higher requests per second and lower latencies. The High Frequency Intel instance also demonstrates superior throughput in file I/O operations and MySQL OLTP benchmarks, indicating it is a better choice for demanding workloads that require high CPU speed, multi-threading capabilities, and fast I/O performance. Therefore, it would be the better option for developers and sysadmins running CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy applications or services.

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