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 Performance Intel (1 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 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 vs Vultr High Performance Intel 1 GB: Which VPS Tier Wins? (2026)

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've got brand new instances from Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:07:32 GMT	Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:12:47 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	7.0.0-29-generic	7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version	8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1	8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version	8.0.5	8.0.5
Location	Newark, NJ	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$6.00	$6.00
RAM (GB)	1	1
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	32	25
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	1	2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

Category	Winner
CPU (events/sec)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,792.05	2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,584.09	5,786.41
Events per Second	1,436.31	996.04
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.9
Average Latency (ms)	0.7	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.3	2.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.74	1.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second	7,256,990.82	5,033,336.75
Mebibytes per second	7,086.91	4,915.37
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.25	2.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second	7,404,343.90	4,974,126.38
Mebibytes per second	7,230.80	4,857.55
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.55	2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second	4,611.83	3,864.86
Writes per Second	3,074.55	2,576.57
Fsyncs per Second	9,847.36	8,249.51
Read Mebibytes per Second	72.06	60.39
Written Mebibytes per Second	48.04	40.26
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.14	9.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.15	0.2

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,126.89	1,702.68
Average Latency (ms)	1,134.74	1,717.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,139.62	1,727.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,149.76	1,739.68

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	9,766.00	8,943.00
Queries per second	97,660.00	89,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.94	0.96
Average Latency (ms)	1.02	1.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.44	3.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	1.64

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	12,445.00	9,273.00
Queries per second	124,450.00	92,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.74
Average Latency (ms)	0.8	1.08
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.27	9.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.08	1.52

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	5,049.00	3,689.00
Queries per second	50,490.00	36,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.67	1.93
Average Latency (ms)	1.98	2.71
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.4	12.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.43	3.62

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	21,580.00	16,491.00
Queries per second	215,800.00	164,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.36	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	0.46	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.92	5.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.56	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	1,900,092.00	1,142,842.00
Queries per second	19,000,920.00	11,428,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	240.35	468.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	210,450.00	244,994.00
Queries per second	2,104,500.00	2,449,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.97	2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	8,142.00	5,118.00
Queries per second	81,420.00	51,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.56
Average Latency (ms)	1.23	1.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	10.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	3.19

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	11,378.00	7,171.00
Queries per second	113,780.00	71,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	0.88	1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.18	6.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.14	2.52

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	21,383.00	16,059.00
Queries per second	213,830.00	160,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	0.47	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.39	7.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.62	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	21,598.00	17,224.00
Queries per second	215,980.00	172,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.36	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.46	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.24	6.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.62	0.74

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second	156,197.00	153,176.00
Queries per second	1,561,970.00	1,531,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.53	4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.11

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	51,098.62	63,331.22
PING_MBULK per Second	50,890.59	66,357.00
SET per Second	50,632.91	64,020.48
GET per Second	50,813.01	65,789.48
INCR per Second	50,632.91	62,814.07
LPUSH per Second	50,942.43	64,557.78
RPUSH per Second	51,020.41	62,972.29
LPOP per Second	51,229.51	63,816.21
RPOP per Second	51,493.30	59,382.42
SADD per Second	51,840.33	61,842.92
HSET per Second	52,301.26	61,162.08
SPOP per Second	52,410.90	63,251.11
ZADD per Second	51,921.08	62,617.41
ZPOPMIN per Second	51,948.05	63,211.12
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	35,410.77	35,997.12
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	20,881.19	17,528.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	15,010.51	11,993.28
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	12,975.22	9,791.44
MSET (10 keys) per Second	49,701.79	54,377.38

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.60	0.50
PING_MBULK	0.59	0.47
SET	0.60	0.50
GET	0.60	0.48
INCR	0.60	0.51
LPUSH	0.60	0.50
RPUSH	0.60	0.51
LPOP	0.60	0.50
RPOP	0.60	0.55
SADD	0.59	0.52
HSET	0.59	0.53
SPOP	0.59	0.50
ZADD	0.60	0.51
ZPOPMIN	0.59	0.50
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.89	0.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.54	1.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.16	2.74
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.42	3.24
MSET (10 keys)	0.66	0.74

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In the benchmark results, the High Performance Intel (1 GB) instance from Vultr outpaces the High Frequency Intel (1 GB) in both Redis and MySQL operations, with higher requests per second and lower latencies, especially evident in Redis SET and MySQL bulk insert benchmarks where it achieves around 64,000 and 113,000 requests per second respectively, significantly surpassing the 50,600 and 189,000 marks of its counterpart. For those needing high-performance computing with fast response times for both CPU-intensive tasks and I/O operations, this instance is the better choice.

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