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 Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 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 Performance Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/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. Each instance was spun up with 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 Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:00:52 GMT	Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:00:52 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	4

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.91	2,893.20
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	5,187.81	5,786.40
Events per Second	1,022.39	1,169.25
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	0.85
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.77	5.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.21	0.9

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,523,809.57	5,411,395.93
Mebibytes per second	3,441.22	5,284.57
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,568,203.77	5,435,853.49
Mebibytes per second	3,484.57	5,308.45
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.02	0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	2,972.63	5,210.92
Writes per Second	1,981.75	3,473.95
Fsyncs per Second	6,347.81	11,118.74
Read Mebibytes per Second	46.45	81.42
Written Mebibytes per Second	30.96	54.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.09	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	17.12	2.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.33	0.15

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	899.28	575.32
Average Latency (ms)	935.93	751.26
Maximum Latency (ms)	969.92	786.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	977.74	787.74

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,779.00	8,449.00
Queries per second	37,790.00	84,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.84	1.08
Average Latency (ms)	2.64	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.55	2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	1.32

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,044.00	10,071.00
Queries per second	40,440.00	100,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.4	0.72
Average Latency (ms)	2.47	0.99
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.46	3.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.3	1.3

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,798.00	4,394.00
Queries per second	17,980.00	43,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.86	1.9
Average Latency (ms)	5.56	2.27
Maximum Latency (ms)	27.33	4.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.91	2.76

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,405.00	18,253.00
Queries per second	64,050.00	182,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.99	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	1.56	0.55
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.15	3.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.03	0.68

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	865,805.00	1,696,217.00
Queries per second	8,658,050.00	16,962,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	538.25	276.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	126,618.00	210,617.00
Queries per second	1,266,180.00	2,106,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.46	1.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,674.00	8,355.00
Queries per second	36,740.00	83,550.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.07	0.53
Average Latency (ms)	2.72	1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.45	3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.55	1.52

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,728.00	8,301.00
Queries per second	27,280.00	83,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.3	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	3.66	1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.85	2.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5	1.55

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,438.00	17,582.00
Queries per second	54,380.00	175,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.99	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	1.84	0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.86	9.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	0.74

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,370.00	18,457.00
Queries per second	63,700.00	184,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.01	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	1.57	0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.99	1.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.07	0.67

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	51,180.00	155,310.00
Queries per second	511,800.00	1,553,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.19	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.11	3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	49,677.10	67,796.61
PING_MBULK per Second	45,372.05	67,114.09
SET per Second	45,392.64	68,917.99
GET per Second	53,163.21	69,492.70
INCR per Second	48,732.94	69,013.11
LPUSH per Second	50,327.12	70,323.48
RPUSH per Second	48,285.85	69,783.67
LPOP per Second	48,355.90	70,472.16
RPOP per Second	51,413.88	70,274.07
SADD per Second	48,332.53	69,444.45
HSET per Second	49,285.36	68,823.12
SPOP per Second	48,332.53	69,252.08
ZADD per Second	51,229.51	69,396.25
ZPOPMIN per Second	45,085.66	69,492.70
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	27,122.32	51,519.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	12,442.45	29,515.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	7,930.21	18,910.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	6,902.74	17,424.64
MSET (10 keys) per Second	45,146.73	71,073.21

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.53	0.38
PING_MBULK	0.57	0.39
SET	0.57	0.37
GET	0.49	0.37
INCR	0.53	0.37
LPUSH	0.51	0.37
RPUSH	0.54	0.37
LPOP	0.54	0.37
RPOP	0.52	0.37
SADD	0.55	0.37
HSET	0.54	0.37
SPOP	0.54	0.37
ZADD	0.52	0.37
ZPOPMIN	0.57	0.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.02	0.51
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.29	0.90
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.27	1.43
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.91	1.52
MSET (10 keys)	0.78	0.37

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In comparing the two Vultr instances, the Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) and the High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) benchmarks, the former showcases higher memory throughput and slightly better CPU performance with more RAM and comparable cores, while the latter exhibits superior Redis benchmark results, notably in read operations and throughput, and also performs better in MySQL and general file I/O operations due to its Intel Cascade Lake CPU. The Cloud Compute instance shows a slight edge in handling memory-intensive tasks and has a more substantial random read/write throughput. Conversely, the High Performance Intel instance has a higher Redis request per second and better latency in most benchmarks, indicating it might excel in data processing and high-speed data operations. For users needing more RAM and better memory throughput, the Cloud Compute instance would be ideal, whereas the High Performance Intel would be more suited for Redis-heavy workloads and systems that benefit from the higher clock speed and efficient data processing of the Intel Cascade Lake CPU.

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