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) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 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 vs Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB: $10 VPS Benchmarks (2026)

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:02 GMT	Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:12:02 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	7.0.0-28-generic	7.0.0-28-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	$12.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	50	50
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

Category	Winner
CPU (events/sec)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.91	2,900.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	5,187.82	5,800.00
Events per Second	929.36	4,289.74
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.95	0.22
Average Latency (ms)	1.07	0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.29	3.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	0.25

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,441,276.65	7,477,695.15
Mebibytes per second	3,360.62	7,302.44
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.05	0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,505,662.23	7,480,195.03
Mebibytes per second	3,423.50	7,304.88
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.71	0.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second	2,556.83	3,878.89
Writes per Second	1,704.52	2,585.89
Fsyncs per Second	5,461.18	8,276.45
Read Mebibytes per Second	39.95	60.61
Written Mebibytes per Second	26.63	40.40
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	36.01	2.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.24	0.19

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,783.52	1,267.92
Average Latency (ms)	1,799.40	1,275.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,810.68	1,281.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,803.47	1,280.93

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,535.00	14,172.00
Queries per second	55,350.00	141,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.57	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	1.8	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.09	3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.78

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,739.00	12,730.00
Queries per second	57,390.00	127,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.19	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	1.74	0.78
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.45	4.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	0.94

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,265.00	6,314.00
Queries per second	22,650.00	63,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.24	1.39
Average Latency (ms)	4.41	1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.01	7.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.67	1.76

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	11,053.00	20,594.00
Queries per second	110,530.00	205,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	0.9	0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)	17.38	3.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	0.57

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	701,975.00	2,395,217.00
Queries per second	7,019,750.00	23,952,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	625.32	192.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	152,246.00	364,617.00
Queries per second	1,522,460.00	3,646,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.38	0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,020.00	11,020.00
Queries per second	30,200.00	110,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.76	0.31
Average Latency (ms)	3.31	0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.79	3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.33	1.18

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,424.00	14,569.00
Queries per second	24,240.00	145,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.46	0.22
Average Latency (ms)	4.12	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.2	2.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.47	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	10,298.00	19,450.00
Queries per second	102,980.00	194,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.64	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	0.97	0.51
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.63	10.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	0.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	10,146.00	19,900.00
Queries per second	101,460.00	199,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.18	10.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.34	0.59

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	87,018.00	265,546.00
Queries per second	870,180.00	2,655,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.11	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	112.3	2.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.23	0.06

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	31,908.10	48,146.37
PING_MBULK per Second	33,014.20	47,460.84
SET per Second	32,237.27	49,140.05
GET per Second	32,404.41	48,332.53
INCR per Second	33,300.03	47,080.98
LPUSH per Second	32,722.51	48,449.61
RPUSH per Second	32,404.41	47,961.63
LPOP per Second	32,206.12	46,794.57
RPOP per Second	35,063.11	47,103.16
SADD per Second	34,746.35	47,984.64
HSET per Second	35,001.75	47,961.63
SPOP per Second	35,701.54	46,838.41
ZADD per Second	34,602.07	48,947.62
ZPOPMIN per Second	33,898.30	47,619.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	16,764.46	38,226.30
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,578.63	24,906.60
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,631.56	18,073.38
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,000.80	16,404.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second	25,297.24	48,262.55

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.96	0.63
PING_MBULK	0.92	0.63
SET	0.97	0.63
GET	0.95	0.62
INCR	0.94	0.65
LPUSH	0.95	0.64
RPUSH	0.96	0.65
LPOP	0.97	0.68
RPOP	0.90	0.66
SADD	0.89	0.64
HSET	0.90	0.65
SPOP	0.87	0.64
ZADD	0.91	0.64
ZPOPMIN	0.91	0.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.84	0.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	3.87	1.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	6.03	1.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	6.91	1.95
MSET (10 keys)	1.53	0.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) in almost all benchmarks, especially in CPU operations where it achieves significantly higher events per second (4289.74 vs. 929.36) and better Redis throughput, with remarkable peak performance seen in operations like "SET" (49140.05 rps vs. 32237.27 rps). For users requiring high CPU efficiency and throughput, such as those running CPU-intensive applications or databases, this instance is superior. Conversely, the Cloud Compute (2 GB) is more budget-friendly but lacks the headroom for demanding workloads.

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