How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $20.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 3 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 (4 GB, 2 Cores)?

Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for $20.00/mo.

Vultr Cloud Compute 4 GB, 2 Cores ($20/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:52 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	$20.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	3

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	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)	3,792.06	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,584.11	7,583.95
Events per Second	1,576.98	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	0.63	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.97	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.67	0.69

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,849,685.24	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	7,665.71	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.06	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,856,320.45	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	7,672.19	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.06	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	8,095.12	4,671.85
Writes per Second	5,396.74	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	17,271.28	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	126.49	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	84.32	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.03	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.51	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.17

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	464.63	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	547.54	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	583.01	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	580.02	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,127.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	101,270.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.89	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	0.99	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.49	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.12	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,521.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	95,210.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.64	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	1.05	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	54.22	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.34	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,611.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	46,110.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.61	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	2.17	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.47	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,673.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	166,730.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.6	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.29	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.84	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,249,592.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	22,495,920.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	217.13	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	228,323.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	2,283,230.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.84	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,527.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	105,270.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	0.95	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.01	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.37	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,906.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	89,060.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.34	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	1.12	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.32	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.52	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,008.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	160,080.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.17	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,237.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	162,370.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.07	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.84	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	149,460.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	1,494,600.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.92	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.07

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	79,617.83	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	79,554.50	89,605.73
SET per Second	83,125.52	90,171.33
GET per Second	81,632.65	90,579.71
INCR per Second	81,366.97	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	75,642.96	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	80,321.28	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	85,251.49	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	86,355.79	90,661.83
SADD per Second	85,178.88	90,252.70
HSET per Second	84,245.99	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	85,470.09	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	86,730.27	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	85,689.80	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	63,051.70	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	29,940.12	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	24,390.24	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	21,353.83	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	84,175.09	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.33	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.32	0.29
SET	0.32	0.29
GET	0.32	0.29
INCR	0.32	0.28
LPUSH	0.34	0.29
RPUSH	0.32	0.29
LPOP	0.31	0.28
RPOP	0.30	0.28
SADD	0.30	0.29
HSET	0.31	0.29
SPOP	0.30	0.29
ZADD	0.30	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.30	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.43	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.96	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.11	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.23	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.31	0.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Both Vultr instances show impressive performance with high request rates for Redis operations, though the 4 GB, 2 Cores instance from Provider 1 has slightly higher average RPS and lower latency for most benchmarks, especially in complex tasks like LRANGE, suggesting better performance under more demanding loads. The CPU benchmarks also favor the higher-memory instance, with slightly higher events per second and lower latencies. In terms of file I/O, both instances offer good throughput and low average latency, though the High Frequency Intel instance shows slightly higher read and write speeds. For MySQL operations, the difference is marginal, but the 4 GB instance again edges out the 2 GB variant in read-heavy tasks. Overall, the 4 GB, 2 Cores instance is better suited for CPU-intensive, memory-demanding workloads, while the 2 GB, 2 Cores variant offers a cost-effective option for less resource-intensive applications, especially those benefitting from NVMe storage.

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Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)