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 Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe 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 High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running 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 – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 30 May 2026 03:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,791.92	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	7,583.84	5,799.98
Events per Second	1,473.75	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.63	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.68	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.12	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.75	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	6,820,350.62	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	6,660.50	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.31	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	6,454,818.09	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	6,303.53	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.66	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,389.79	5,114.79
Writes per Second	2,926.52	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	9,376.39	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	68.59	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	45.73	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	31.02	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.12

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,262.77	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	1,272.88	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,285.30	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,280.93	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,122.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	91,220.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.92	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.09	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.36	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.5	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,552.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	65,520.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.68	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.52	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	263.27	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.61	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,107.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	31,070.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.29	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	3.22	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	47.81	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.18	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	15,510.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	155,100.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.39	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.64	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.42	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,463,217.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	14,632,170.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	376.55	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	210,316.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	2,103,160.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.67	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,048.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	80,480.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.24	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.78	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.96	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,555.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	85,550.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.32	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	1.17	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.25	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.48	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,650.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	116,500.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.86	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	39.27	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,004.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	130,040.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.4	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	0.77	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.05	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.1	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	110,717.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	1,107,170.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.09	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	25.53	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.13	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	52,882.07	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	55,218.11	57,903.88
SET per Second	53,191.49	57,703.40
GET per Second	53,705.69	57,703.40
INCR per Second	52,273.91	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	46,904.32	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	52,002.08	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	53,078.56	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	52,742.62	58,343.06
SADD per Second	52,938.06	58,241.12
HSET per Second	53,106.74	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	50,403.23	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	49,726.51	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	53,504.55	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	34,770.52	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	17,091.10	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	11,966.02	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	10,231.23	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	49,358.34	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.62	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.58	0.44
SET	0.62	0.45
GET	0.61	0.45
INCR	0.63	0.45
LPUSH	0.71	0.44
RPUSH	0.63	0.44
LPOP	0.63	0.44
RPOP	0.63	0.44
SADD	0.62	0.44
HSET	0.62	0.44
SPOP	0.65	0.44
ZADD	0.67	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.62	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.98	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.06	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.98	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.47	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.70	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark performance of the Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) and Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) instances, it is clear that the AMD instance excels in multi-core performance metrics, demonstrating higher throughput in Redis operations, CPU event handling, file I/O, and MySQL operations compared to the single-core Intel instance. The AMD instance offers significantly better performance in handling concurrent operations and data-intensive tasks due to its dual-core architecture, resulting in lower latency and higher requests per second in various benchmarks. Conversely, the Cloud Compute instance, while still competent, lags in multi-threaded tasks, showcasing higher latencies in certain benchmarks. The AMD instance is ideal for workloads that benefit from multiple cores and higher throughput, such as data processing, web servers with high concurrency, or databases, while the Cloud Compute instance might be more suitable for simpler, less data-intensive tasks or for cost-sensitive applications where a single core suffices.

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