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.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)?

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

Vultr High Frequency Intel 1 GB ($6/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency 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 all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 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	$6.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	32	80
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	1	3

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,792.00	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,583.99	7,583.95
Events per Second	1,610.13	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.59	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.23	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.65	0.69

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,926,735.23	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	7,740.95	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	7,829,978.57	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	7,646.46	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.01	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,623.06	4,671.85
Writes per Second	3,082.04	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	9,865.12	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	72.24	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	48.16	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.44	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.18	0.17

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,066.91	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	1,072.39	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,077.58	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,069.86	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,351.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	103,510.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.9	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	0.97	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.08	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.03	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,881.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	98,810.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.63	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	1.01	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.54	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.3	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,464.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	44,640.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.81	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	2.24	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.82	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.76	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,897.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	168,970.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.68	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.75	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,133,092.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	21,330,920.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	261.58	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	226,612.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	2,266,120.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.34	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,104.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	111,040.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.31	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	0.9	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.85	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	11,218.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	112,180.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.28	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	0.89	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.88	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,175.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	161,750.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.37	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.86	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,898.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	168,980.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.32	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	151,969.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	1,519,690.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.32	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.07

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	55,772.45	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	56,401.58	89,605.73
SET per Second	55,928.41	90,171.33
GET per Second	56,818.18	90,579.71
INCR per Second	56,529.11	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	55,463.12	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	55,555.56	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	55,066.08	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	53,966.54	90,661.83
SADD per Second	55,865.92	90,252.70
HSET per Second	55,035.77	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	56,211.35	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	55,679.29	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	56,689.34	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	37,271.71	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	20,973.15	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	14,166.31	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	12,725.88	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	51,786.64	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.57	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.56	0.29
SET	0.57	0.29
GET	0.56	0.29
INCR	0.56	0.28
LPUSH	0.58	0.29
RPUSH	0.58	0.29
LPOP	0.59	0.28
RPOP	0.61	0.28
SADD	0.58	0.29
HSET	0.59	0.29
SPOP	0.57	0.29
ZADD	0.58	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.56	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.92	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.66	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.53	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.84	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.67	0.30

Conclusion

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The Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instance offers respectable benchmarks in CPU performance, Redis operations, and memory throughput with an emphasis on low latency, making it suitable for applications that prioritize single-threaded or low-concurrency tasks. In contrast, the High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance provides superior performance in multi-core processing, Redis throughput, and file I/O operations, indicating it is better suited for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy workloads, or applications that require higher concurrency handling, thus making it ideal for more demanding applications.

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Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)