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 Intel (2 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (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 Intel 2 GB: $10 VPS Benchmarks (2026)

Same showdown, different day. Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:02 GMT	Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:13:32 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 Intel (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)

Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.91	2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	5,187.82	5,786.41
Events per Second	929.36	999.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.95	0.9
Average Latency (ms)	1.07	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.29	2.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	1.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,441,276.65	4,899,364.23
Mebibytes per second	3,360.62	4,784.54
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.05	0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,505,662.23	4,958,374.18
Mebibytes per second	3,423.50	4,842.16
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.71	1.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second	2,556.83	3,921.65
Writes per Second	1,704.52	2,614.43
Fsyncs per Second	5,461.18	8,376.78
Read Mebibytes per Second	39.95	61.28
Written Mebibytes per Second	26.63	40.85
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.1	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	36.01	5.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.24	0.2

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,783.52	1,859.93
Average Latency (ms)	1,799.40	1,885.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,810.68	1,898.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,803.47	1,903.57

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,535.00	9,027.00
Queries per second	55,350.00	90,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.57	0.96
Average Latency (ms)	1.8	1.11
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.09	2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	1.44

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,739.00	8,431.00
Queries per second	57,390.00	84,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.19	0.75
Average Latency (ms)	1.74	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.45	9.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	1.76

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,265.00	3,610.00
Queries per second	22,650.00	36,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.24	2
Average Latency (ms)	4.41	2.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.01	15.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.67	3.75

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	11,053.00	14,727.00
Queries per second	110,530.00	147,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	0.9	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	17.38	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	0.94

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	701,975.00	1,201,092.00
Queries per second	7,019,750.00	12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	625.32	387.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	152,246.00	228,161.00
Queries per second	1,522,460.00	2,281,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.38	1.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,020.00	4,700.00
Queries per second	30,200.00	47,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.76	0.78
Average Latency (ms)	3.31	2.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.79	9.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.33	3.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,424.00	7,069.00
Queries per second	24,240.00	70,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.46	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	4.12	1.41
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.2	4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.47	2.26

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	10,298.00	15,156.00
Queries per second	102,980.00	151,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.64	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.97	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.63	5.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	10,146.00	15,180.00
Queries per second	101,460.00	151,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.18	3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.34	0.9

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	87,018.00	149,333.00
Queries per second	870,180.00	1,493,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.11	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	112.3	2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.23	0.12

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	31,908.10	45,998.16
PING_MBULK per Second	33,014.20	59,916.12
SET per Second	32,237.27	57,438.25
GET per Second	32,404.41	50,581.69
INCR per Second	33,300.03	57,240.98
LPUSH per Second	32,722.51	57,306.59
RPUSH per Second	32,404.41	52,631.58
LPOP per Second	32,206.12	52,854.12
RPOP per Second	35,063.11	54,794.52
SADD per Second	34,746.35	59,382.42
HSET per Second	35,001.75	57,636.89
SPOP per Second	35,701.54	54,854.64
ZADD per Second	34,602.07	58,892.82
ZPOPMIN per Second	33,898.30	65,189.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	16,764.46	35,075.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,578.63	14,297.97
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,631.56	10,139.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,000.80	8,959.77
MSET (10 keys) per Second	25,297.24	50,761.42

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.96	0.70
PING_MBULK	0.92	0.53
SET	0.97	0.56
GET	0.95	0.65
INCR	0.94	0.56
LPUSH	0.95	0.56
RPUSH	0.96	0.61
LPOP	0.97	0.62
RPOP	0.90	0.60
SADD	0.89	0.54
HSET	0.90	0.56
SPOP	0.87	0.58
ZADD	0.91	0.55
ZPOPMIN	0.91	0.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.84	0.95
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	3.87	2.25
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	6.03	3.16
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	6.91	3.47
MSET (10 keys)	1.53	0.79

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In the benchmark comparison, the High Performance Intel (2 GB) instance from Vultr outperforms the Cloud Compute (2 GB) in nearly all categories, particularly evident in the Redis SET operation with 57,438.25 requests per second compared to 32,237.27, and in MySQL bulk insert with 117,769.09 transactions per second versus 68,808.93. While both instances deliver solid performance, the High Performance Intel model provides better throughput and lower latency across CPU, memory, and I/O operations, making it ideal for CPU-intensive and high-transaction workloads.

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