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 Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe of storage, and 5 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 Intel 4 GB, 2 Cores ($24/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 the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT	Sat, 23 May 2026 02:00:52 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	$24.00
RAM (GB)	8	4
CPU Cores	4	2
Storage (TB)	160	100
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	5

CPU

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,593.90	2,893.20
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	5,187.80	5,786.40
Events per Second	1,100.82	1,147.81
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.88	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.91	0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.56	2.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.97	0.95

Memory Read

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,685,781.23	5,252,644.69
Mebibytes per second	3,599.40	5,129.54
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.03	0.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,590,629.63	5,265,823.22
Mebibytes per second	3,506.47	5,142.41
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.16	0.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,999.39	8,574.40
Writes per Second	3,332.93	5,716.26
Fsyncs per Second	10,670.47	18,293.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	78.12	133.97
Written Mebibytes per Second	52.08	89.32
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	37.52	10.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.09

Mutex

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	369.37	800.81
Average Latency (ms)	416.22	810.92
Maximum Latency (ms)	441.77	817.00
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	442.73	816.63

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,144.00	7,453.00
Queries per second	51,440.00	74,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	1.11
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.67	19.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.35	1.76

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,108.00	8,696.00
Queries per second	51,080.00	86,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.78
Average Latency (ms)	1.96	1.15
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.52	3.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	1.55

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,247.00	3,942.00
Queries per second	22,470.00	39,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.08	1.97
Average Latency (ms)	4.45	2.53
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.7	6.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.28	3.19

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,630.00	15,222.00
Queries per second	76,300.00	152,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.71	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	1.31	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	29.81	2.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.55	0.89

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	898,571.00	1,579,717.00
Queries per second	8,985,710.00	15,797,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	505.86	298.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	149,465.00	193,212.00
Queries per second	1,494,650.00	1,932,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.22	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,249.00	7,012.00
Queries per second	42,490.00	70,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.83	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	2.35	1.42
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.6	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	1.93

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,637.00	7,451.00
Queries per second	26,370.00	74,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.94	0.53
Average Latency (ms)	3.79	1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.3	3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.09	1.82

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,166.00	15,219.00
Queries per second	71,660.00	152,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	1.39	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.84	2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.79	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,661.00	15,386.00
Queries per second	76,610.00	153,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	1.3	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	33.97	4.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.58	0.89

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	69,690.00	132,809.00
Queries per second	696,900.00	1,328,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.14	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	27.73	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.87	0.11

Redis

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,436.58	62,656.64
PING_MBULK per Second	48,828.12	63,251.11
SET per Second	51,572.98	64,350.06
GET per Second	48,239.27	62,421.97
INCR per Second	52,328.62	63,211.12
LPUSH per Second	45,454.54	65,832.78
RPUSH per Second	49,751.24	64,892.93
LPOP per Second	53,390.28	66,844.91
RPOP per Second	53,648.07	64,599.48
SADD per Second	48,285.85	59,952.04
HSET per Second	51,493.30	62,073.25
SPOP per Second	52,910.05	60,240.96
ZADD per Second	53,504.55	63,532.40
ZPOPMIN per Second	53,590.57	61,766.52
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	28,645.09	43,478.26
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,131.98	25,387.15
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	8,529.51	18,234.87
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,479.99	15,257.86
MSET (10 keys) per Second	49,212.60	60,132.29

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.47	0.43
PING_MBULK	0.53	0.41
SET	0.50	0.41
GET	0.54	0.41
INCR	0.49	0.41
LPUSH	0.58	0.40
RPUSH	0.52	0.40
LPOP	0.49	0.39
RPOP	0.48	0.42
SADD	0.54	0.44
HSET	0.53	0.42
SPOP	0.49	0.43
ZADD	0.48	0.42
ZPOPMIN	0.48	0.42
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.91	0.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.94	1.14
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	3.00	1.58
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.43	1.98
MSET (10 keys)	0.77	0.46

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

When comparing the two Vultr instances, it's clear that the Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance provides superior performance across the board for most tasks, especially in memory and file I/O operations where it shows higher throughput and lower latencies. However, the High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) instance excels in Redis benchmarks, displaying higher request per second rates and significantly lower latencies for various Redis commands, suggesting it is more suited for applications that rely heavily on fast in-memory data handling. Both instances offer robust CPU performance, but the 8 GB instance has a slight edge in handling larger workloads due to its higher RAM and storage capacities, making it a better choice for CPU-intensive or memory-heavy tasks, whereas the 4 GB instance could be more cost-effective for applications that prioritize Redis performance over overall computational capacity.

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