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 (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 128 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 4 GB, 2 Cores ($24/mo) Benchmarks

Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some 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 or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:52 GMT	Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:00:53 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-124-generic	6.8.0-124-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2	8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	Newark, NJ	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$20.00	$24.00
RAM (GB)	4	4
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	128
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	3

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.91	3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	5,187.81	7,583.99
Events per Second	1,022.39	1,594.80
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	0.61
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.77	0.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.21	0.67

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,523,809.57	7,900,769.28
Mebibytes per second	3,441.22	7,715.59
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,568,203.77	7,874,840.92
Mebibytes per second	3,484.57	7,690.27
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.02	1.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	2,972.63	7,560.59
Writes per Second	1,981.75	5,040.36
Fsyncs per Second	6,347.81	16,129.48
Read Mebibytes per Second	46.45	118.13
Written Mebibytes per Second	30.96	78.76
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.09	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	17.12	3.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.33	0.13

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	899.28	488.87
Average Latency (ms)	935.93	535.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	969.92	560.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	977.74	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,779.00	10,436.00
Queries per second	37,790.00	104,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.84	0.87
Average Latency (ms)	2.64	0.96
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.55	2.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	1.1

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,044.00	10,763.00
Queries per second	40,440.00	107,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.4	0.63
Average Latency (ms)	2.47	0.93
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.46	2.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.3	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,798.00	4,891.00
Queries per second	17,980.00	48,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.86	1.56
Average Latency (ms)	5.56	2.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	27.33	4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.91	2.57

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,405.00	17,483.00
Queries per second	64,050.00	174,830.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.99	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.56	0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.15	2.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.03	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	865,805.00	2,307,842.00
Queries per second	8,658,050.00	23,078,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	538.25	248.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	126,618.00	239,222.00
Queries per second	1,266,180.00	2,392,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.46	0.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,674.00	12,005.00
Queries per second	36,740.00	120,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.07	0.29
Average Latency (ms)	2.72	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.45	2.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.55	1.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,728.00	10,500.00
Queries per second	27,280.00	105,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.3	0.33
Average Latency (ms)	3.66	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.85	3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5	1.25

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,438.00	16,647.00
Queries per second	54,380.00	166,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.99	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.84	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.86	3.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,370.00	16,754.00
Queries per second	63,700.00	167,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.01	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.57	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.99	1.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	51,180.00	155,630.00
Queries per second	511,800.00	1,556,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.19	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.11	3.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	0.07

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	49,677.10	84,459.46
PING_MBULK per Second	45,372.05	85,689.80
SET per Second	45,392.64	86,355.79
GET per Second	53,163.21	86,355.79
INCR per Second	48,732.94	86,206.90
LPUSH per Second	50,327.12	86,880.97
RPUSH per Second	48,285.85	85,984.52
LPOP per Second	48,355.90	86,956.52
RPOP per Second	51,413.88	85,106.38
SADD per Second	48,332.53	81,766.15
HSET per Second	49,285.36	81,433.22
SPOP per Second	48,332.53	82,781.46
ZADD per Second	51,229.51	84,889.65
ZPOPMIN per Second	45,085.66	80,256.82
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	27,122.32	59,880.24
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	12,442.45	32,071.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	7,930.21	24,420.03
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	6,902.74	21,533.16
MSET (10 keys) per Second	45,146.73	88,339.23

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.53	0.31
PING_MBULK	0.57	0.30
SET	0.57	0.30
GET	0.49	0.30
INCR	0.53	0.30
LPUSH	0.51	0.30
RPUSH	0.54	0.30
LPOP	0.54	0.30
RPOP	0.52	0.30
SADD	0.55	0.32
HSET	0.54	0.32
SPOP	0.54	0.31
ZADD	0.52	0.31
ZPOPMIN	0.57	0.32
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.02	0.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.29	0.83
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.27	1.08
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.91	1.22
MSET (10 keys)	0.78	0.31

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon analyzing the benchmark results, the Vultr High Frequency Intel instance (2 cores, 4 GB RAM, NVMe storage) outperforms the Cloud Compute instance (also 2 cores, 4 GB RAM) across all tested metrics. The High Frequency instance shows superior performance in Redis operations, CPU utilization, file I/O operations, and memory transfer rates, with significantly lower latencies and higher throughput values. The Cloud Compute instance, while still competent, lags behind in most metrics, particularly in more complex operations like large range retrievals in Redis. Given these results, the High Frequency Intel instance is better suited for demanding applications requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time data processing and high-frequency trading systems, while the Cloud Compute instance may be more appropriate for less demanding workloads or cost-sensitive applications.

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