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

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:33:36 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:21 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 25
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)

Evenly matched across 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX) Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz) 3,791.94 2,893.20
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 7,583.88 5,786.40
Events per Second 1,435.42 1,049.60
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.9
Average Latency (ms) 0.7 0.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.15 4.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.74 1.12

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,568,455.18 5,247,794.58
Mebibytes per second 7,391.07 5,124.80
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.36 2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second 7,598,419.58 5,230,407.37
Mebibytes per second 7,420.33 5,107.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.68 1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second 4,001.75 4,064.54
Writes per Second 2,667.80 2,709.66
Fsyncs per Second 8,546.24 8,672.51
Read Mebibytes per Second 62.53 63.51
Written Mebibytes per Second 41.68 42.34
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.03 6.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.19

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,145.72 1,611.76
Average Latency (ms) 1,154.58 1,623.75
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,160.32 1,635.20
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,170.65 1,648.20

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,706.00 8,324.00
Queries per second 97,060.00 83,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 1.06
Average Latency (ms) 1.03 1.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.49 5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.18 1.5

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,666.00 9,781.00
Queries per second 76,660.00 97,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.77
Average Latency (ms) 1.3 1.02
Maximum Latency (ms) 158.72 10.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.42 1.39

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,938.00 4,006.00
Queries per second 39,380.00 40,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.82 2.02
Average Latency (ms) 2.54 2.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 51.37 8.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 3.13

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 18,012.00 17,670.00
Queries per second 180,120.00 176,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 0.55 0.56
Maximum Latency (ms) 44.86 8.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.73 0.72

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,870,967.00 1,317,592.00
Queries per second 18,709,670.00 13,175,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 225.74 320.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 213,062.00 214,470.00
Queries per second 2,130,620.00 2,144,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.04 3.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,351.00 5,913.00
Queries per second 73,510.00 59,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.41 0.53
Average Latency (ms) 1.36 1.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.95 6.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 2.22

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,954.00 8,048.00
Queries per second 99,540.00 80,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.27 0.5
Average Latency (ms) 1 1.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.46 3.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.58 1.7

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 16,749.00 17,291.00
Queries per second 167,490.00 172,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.44
Average Latency (ms) 0.6 0.58
Maximum Latency (ms) 83.31 7.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.8 0.75

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 17,638.00 18,069.00
Queries per second 176,380.00 180,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.38 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 0.57 0.55
Maximum Latency (ms) 77.2 5.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.75 0.7

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second 145,888.00 154,947.00
Queries per second 1,458,880.00 1,549,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.51 9.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.11

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 50,838.84 45,766.59
PING_MBULK per Second 50,761.42 44,424.70
SET per Second 52,192.07 45,045.04
GET per Second 52,383.45 45,065.34
INCR per Second 52,938.06 46,663.56
LPUSH per Second 51,813.47 44,603.03
RPUSH per Second 51,572.98 46,146.75
LPOP per Second 50,968.40 44,903.46
RPOP per Second 50,479.56 44,523.60
SADD per Second 51,308.36 45,392.64
HSET per Second 49,925.11 46,468.40
SPOP per Second 50,890.59 47,036.69
ZADD per Second 50,505.05 45,682.96
ZPOPMIN per Second 50,968.40 45,871.56
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 34,399.72 31,387.32
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 20,016.01 17,470.30
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 14,332.81 12,192.15
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 12,966.80 10,672.36
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,603.17 44,503.79

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.610.67
PING_MBULK0.600.67
SET0.590.68
GET0.590.68
INCR0.590.66
LPUSH0.600.69
RPUSH0.600.67
LPOP0.610.69
RPOP0.610.70
SADD0.600.68
HSET0.620.67
SPOP0.600.65
ZADD0.610.68
ZPOPMIN0.600.67
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.910.99
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.611.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.252.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.522.99
MSET (10 keys)0.670.75

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance narrowly outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) in most benchmarks, especially in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second (rps) across various commands like SET, GET, and INCR, reaching up to 47036.69 rps for SPOP compared to 52192.07 rps by the 2 GB instance, though it lags slightly in memory throughput and MySQL bulk insert performance. It's best suited for CPU-intensive tasks and applications requiring high throughput for read/write operations.

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