How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $40.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB NVMe of storage, and 1 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)?

Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) has 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of monthly transfer for $40.00/mo.

Vultr Cloud Compute 8 GB, 4 Cores ($40/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 1 GB ($6/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT	Sun, 24 May 2026 10:00:52 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	$40.00	$6.00
RAM (GB)	8	1
CPU Cores	4	1
Storage (TB)	160	32
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	1

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.90	3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	5,187.80	7,584.00
Events per Second	1,100.82	1,615.69
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	0.61
Average Latency (ms)	0.91	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	2.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.97	0.64

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second	3,685,781.23	8,028,636.84
Mebibytes per second	3,599.40	7,840.47
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.03	1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second	3,590,629.63	8,033,967.13
Mebibytes per second	3,506.47	7,845.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.16	0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second	4,999.39	4,634.55
Writes per Second	3,332.93	3,089.67
Fsyncs per Second	10,670.47	9,888.53
Read Mebibytes per Second	78.12	72.41
Written Mebibytes per Second	52.08	48.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	37.52	1.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.18

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	369.37	1,064.89
Average Latency (ms)	416.22	1,070.28
Maximum Latency (ms)	441.77	1,076.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	442.73	1,069.86

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5,144.00	10,528.00
Queries per second	51,440.00	105,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.9
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.67	5.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	0.99

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5,108.00	9,953.00
Queries per second	51,080.00	99,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.66
Average Latency (ms)	1.96	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.52	5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	1.25

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	2,247.00	4,566.00
Queries per second	22,470.00	45,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.08	1.8
Average Latency (ms)	4.45	2.19
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.7	4.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.28	2.43

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	7,630.00	17,886.00
Queries per second	76,300.00	178,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.71	0.36
Average Latency (ms)	1.31	0.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.81	2.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	898,571.00	1,929,217.00
Queries per second	8,985,710.00	19,292,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	505.86	260.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	149,465.00	233,822.00
Queries per second	1,494,650.00	2,338,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.22	4.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	4,249.00	11,524.00
Queries per second	42,490.00	115,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.32
Average Latency (ms)	2.35	0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.6	4.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	1.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	2,637.00	11,508.00
Queries per second	26,370.00	115,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.94	0.25
Average Latency (ms)	3.79	0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.3	3.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.09	1.12

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	7,166.00	15,568.00
Queries per second	71,660.00	155,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.39	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.84	15.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.79	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	7,661.00	16,880.00
Queries per second	76,610.00	168,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	1.3	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	33.97	5.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	0.78

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	69,690.00	145,217.00
Queries per second	696,900.00	1,452,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.14	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	27.73	5.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.1

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,436.58	56,211.35
PING_MBULK per Second	48,828.12	56,689.34
SET per Second	51,572.98	55,555.56
GET per Second	48,239.27	55,679.29
INCR per Second	52,328.62	56,211.35
LPUSH per Second	45,454.54	55,865.92
RPUSH per Second	49,751.24	56,401.58
LPOP per Second	53,390.28	55,772.45
RPOP per Second	53,648.07	55,309.73
SADD per Second	48,285.85	56,211.35
HSET per Second	51,493.30	55,432.37
SPOP per Second	52,910.05	56,211.35
ZADD per Second	53,504.55	55,187.64
ZPOPMIN per Second	53,590.57	56,148.23
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	28,645.09	37,965.07
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,131.98	20,703.93
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	8,529.51	14,417.53
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,479.99	12,627.86
MSET (10 keys) per Second	49,212.60	52,770.45

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.47	0.57
PING_MBULK	0.53	0.56
SET	0.50	0.57
GET	0.54	0.57
INCR	0.49	0.56
LPUSH	0.58	0.57
RPUSH	0.52	0.56
LPOP	0.49	0.57
RPOP	0.48	0.58
SADD	0.54	0.56
HSET	0.53	0.58
SPOP	0.49	0.56
ZADD	0.48	0.58
ZPOPMIN	0.48	0.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.91	0.90
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.94	1.67
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.00	2.46
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.43	2.83
MSET (10 keys)	0.77	0.65

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After a thorough comparison of Vultr's Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) and High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instances, it's clear that the Cloud Compute instance excels in handling more memory-intensive and multi-threaded workloads, offering significantly higher RAM, CPU core count, and storage throughput. It also provides better performance in Redis benchmarks, especially in larger list operations, and better CPU event handling and MySQL OLTP tasks. On the other hand, the High Frequency Intel instance, with its higher clock speed and single-core configuration, showcases strong performance in Redis operations and MySQL OLTP tasks, although it lags behind in memory capacity and multi-threading scenarios. Therefore, the Cloud Compute instance is ideal for workloads requiring substantial memory, high multi-threading capability, and robust I/O operations, while the High Frequency Intel instance is better suited for single-threaded, high-frequency, or low-memory applications where clock speed is a critical factor.

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Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)