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) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 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 ($12/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were 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)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT	Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:52 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	$12.00
RAM (GB)	8	2
CPU Cores	4	1
Storage (TB)	160	50
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	3

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
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	5,800.01
Events per Second	1,100.82	4,585.16
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	0.91	0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.97	0.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,685,781.23	7,434,616.41
Mebibytes per second	3,599.40	7,260.37
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.03	0.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,590,629.63	7,494,205.81
Mebibytes per second	3,506.47	7,318.56
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.16	0.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second	4,999.39	5,294.77
Writes per Second	3,332.93	3,529.85
Fsyncs per Second	10,670.47	11,297.81
Read Mebibytes per Second	78.12	82.73
Written Mebibytes per Second	52.08	55.15
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	37.52	3.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.11

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	369.37	1,235.37
Average Latency (ms)	416.22	1,244.43
Maximum Latency (ms)	441.77	1,250.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	442.73	1,258.08

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,144.00	12,805.00
Queries per second	51,440.00	128,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	0.78
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.67	2.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	0.87

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,108.00	10,098.00
Queries per second	51,080.00	100,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.65
Average Latency (ms)	1.96	0.99
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.52	3.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	1.37

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,247.00	5,003.00
Queries per second	22,470.00	50,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.08	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	4.45	2
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.7	4.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.28	2.48

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,630.00	17,395.00
Queries per second	76,300.00	173,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.71	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	1.31	0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.81	2.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	0.7

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	898,571.00	2,482,592.00
Queries per second	8,985,710.00	24,825,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	505.86	222.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	149,465.00	334,403.00
Queries per second	1,494,650.00	3,344,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	4,249.00	13,826.00
Queries per second	42,490.00	138,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	2.35	0.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.6	3.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.92

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,637.00	14,590.00
Queries per second	26,370.00	145,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.94	0.19
Average Latency (ms)	3.79	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.3	2.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.09	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,166.00	15,605.00
Queries per second	71,660.00	156,050.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	1.39	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.84	10.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.79	0.97

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,661.00	15,795.00
Queries per second	76,610.00	157,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	1.3	0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	33.97	1.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	0.9

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	69,690.00	211,730.00
Queries per second	696,900.00	2,117,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.14	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	27.73	2.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.07

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,436.58	42,607.59
PING_MBULK per Second	48,828.12	42,881.64
SET per Second	51,572.98	42,680.32
GET per Second	48,239.27	43,346.34
INCR per Second	52,328.62	43,047.79
LPUSH per Second	45,454.54	42,735.04
RPUSH per Second	49,751.24	43,047.79
LPOP per Second	53,390.28	42,535.09
RPOP per Second	53,648.07	42,625.75
SADD per Second	48,285.85	43,084.88
HSET per Second	51,493.30	43,290.04
SPOP per Second	52,910.05	38,402.46
ZADD per Second	53,504.55	43,010.75
ZPOPMIN per Second	53,590.57	43,554.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	28,645.09	33,500.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,131.98	22,172.95
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	8,529.51	16,417.67
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,479.99	14,609.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second	49,212.60	40,916.53

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.47	0.78
PING_MBULK	0.53	0.77
SET	0.50	0.79
GET	0.54	0.78
INCR	0.49	0.78
LPUSH	0.58	0.78
RPUSH	0.52	0.78
LPOP	0.49	0.79
RPOP	0.48	0.79
SADD	0.54	0.78
HSET	0.53	0.78
SPOP	0.49	0.89
ZADD	0.48	0.78
ZPOPMIN	0.48	0.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.91	1.00
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.94	1.49
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.00	2.05
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.43	2.27
MSET (10 keys)	0.77	0.84

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Both instances from Vultr show robust performance metrics but cater to different use cases based on their configuration and benchmarks. The Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance excels with higher RAM and CPU cores, showcasing superior Redis performance metrics, such as higher requests per second and lower latency across various operations, alongside impressive CPU and I/O throughput. It's ideal for CPU-intensive workloads, large-scale data processing, and environments requiring high memory availability. In contrast, the High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance, while less powerful in terms of RAM and CPU cores, provides commendable benchmarks for single-core operations, making it suitable for less resource-intensive applications, particularly where cost-effectiveness and modest performance are prioritized over higher memory and multi-core processing demands. This instance is well-suited for small to medium applications, development environments, or scenarios where a single high-performing core suffices.

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