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

Vultr High Performance AMD (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 (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 Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. 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 (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT	Thu, 21 May 2026 16:00:53 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	8	2
CPU Cores	4	2
Storage (TB)	160	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	4

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.90	2,900.01
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	5,187.80	5,800.02
Events per Second	1,100.82	4,648.80
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.91	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.97	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,685,781.23	7,514,331.55
Mebibytes per second	3,599.40	7,338.21
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.03	0.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,590,629.63	7,550,541.56
Mebibytes per second	3,506.47	7,373.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.16	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,999.39	5,283.64
Writes per Second	3,332.93	3,522.42
Fsyncs per Second	10,670.47	11,283.45
Read Mebibytes per Second	78.12	82.56
Written Mebibytes per Second	52.08	55.04
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	37.52	2.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.11

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	369.37	643.06
Average Latency (ms)	416.22	654.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	441.77	666.20
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	442.73	669.89

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,144.00	9,906.00
Queries per second	51,440.00	99,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.76
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	1.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.67	2.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	1.08

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,108.00	9,889.00
Queries per second	51,080.00	98,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.76
Average Latency (ms)	1.96	1.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.52	3.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	1.3

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,247.00	4,953.00
Queries per second	22,470.00	49,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.08	1.48
Average Latency (ms)	4.45	2.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.7	4.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.28	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,630.00	16,430.00
Queries per second	76,300.00	164,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.71	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	1.31	0.61
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.81	2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	898,571.00	3,035,967.00
Queries per second	8,985,710.00	30,359,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	505.86	203.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	149,465.00	226,685.00
Queries per second	1,494,650.00	2,266,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,249.00	15,126.00
Queries per second	42,490.00	151,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.26
Average Latency (ms)	2.35	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.6	2.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.83

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,637.00	14,121.00
Queries per second	26,370.00	141,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.94	0.19
Average Latency (ms)	3.79	0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.3	1.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.09	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,166.00	15,302.00
Queries per second	71,660.00	153,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	1.39	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.84	3.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.79	0.86

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,661.00	16,239.00
Queries per second	76,610.00	162,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	1.3	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	33.97	1.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	0.78

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	69,690.00	155,529.00
Queries per second	696,900.00	1,555,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.14	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	27.73	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.08

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,436.58	56,497.18
PING_MBULK per Second	48,828.12	58,207.21
SET per Second	51,572.98	58,139.54
GET per Second	48,239.27	57,372.34
INCR per Second	52,328.62	58,377.11
LPUSH per Second	45,454.54	59,276.82
RPUSH per Second	49,751.24	60,386.47
LPOP per Second	53,390.28	59,241.71
RPOP per Second	53,648.07	58,377.11
SADD per Second	48,285.85	59,844.41
HSET per Second	51,493.30	59,665.87
SPOP per Second	52,910.05	59,453.03
ZADD per Second	53,504.55	60,975.61
ZPOPMIN per Second	53,590.57	60,532.69
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	28,645.09	49,091.80
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,131.98	33,967.39
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	8,529.51	26,288.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,479.99	24,336.82
MSET (10 keys) per Second	49,212.60	58,377.11

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.47	0.46
PING_MBULK	0.53	0.44
SET	0.50	0.44
GET	0.54	0.45
INCR	0.49	0.44
LPUSH	0.58	0.43
RPUSH	0.52	0.43
LPOP	0.49	0.43
RPOP	0.48	0.44
SADD	0.54	0.43
HSET	0.53	0.43
SPOP	0.49	0.43
ZADD	0.48	0.42
ZPOPMIN	0.48	0.43
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.91	0.52
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.94	0.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.00	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.43	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.77	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In benchmarking performance, the Vultr Cloud Compute instance with 8 GB RAM and 4 cores outmatches the High Performance AMD instance with 2 GB RAM and 2 cores in CPU-intensive tasks, as evidenced by higher Redis operations per second (rps) and lower latency across a variety of commands, as well as more robust MySQL and file I/O capabilities. However, the AMD instance excels in memory throughput and read/write operations per second, suggesting it's better suited for workloads that benefit from high memory bandwidth and quick file I/O operations. Consequently, the 8 GB, 4-core instance is ideal for CPU-intensive, memory-demanding applications, while the 2 GB, 2-core AMD instance is better for applications that prioritize high memory throughput and efficient file operations.

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Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)