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.

How much does Vultr High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)?

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

Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) Benchmarks

Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 03:00:52 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	$18.00	$48.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	2	4
Storage (TB)	80	180
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	6

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,791.98	2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,583.95	5,786.33
Events per Second	1,552.05	1,164.11
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.64	0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.61	1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.69	0.9

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,875,668.83	5,268,671.27
Mebibytes per second	7,691.08	5,145.19
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	0.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	7,729,812.11	5,300,398.23
Mebibytes per second	7,548.64	5,176.17
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	4,671.85	8,120.73
Writes per Second	3,114.56	5,413.82
Fsyncs per Second	9,976.90	17,334.39
Read Mebibytes per Second	73.00	126.89
Written Mebibytes per Second	48.67	84.59
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.76	16.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.1

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	543.27	197.88
Average Latency (ms)	554.74	357.16
Maximum Latency (ms)	563.70	411.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	559.50	411.96

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,621.00	7,388.00
Queries per second	106,210.00	73,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.86	1.14
Average Latency (ms)	0.94	1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.5	3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.03	1.7

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,229.00	7,997.00
Queries per second	102,290.00	79,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.64	0.87
Average Latency (ms)	0.98	1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.08	3.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	1.55

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,072.00	3,262.00
Queries per second	50,720.00	32,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.59	2.17
Average Latency (ms)	1.97	3.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.94	7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	3.82

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,038.00	12,898.00
Queries per second	160,380.00	128,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	0.62	0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.18	11.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	1.04

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,424,342.00	1,434,092.00
Queries per second	24,243,420.00	14,340,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	205.81	363.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	241,313.00	190,206.00
Queries per second	2,413,130.00	1,902,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.76	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	12,080.00	6,349.00
Queries per second	120,800.00	63,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.21	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	0.83	1.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.31	3.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.04	2.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	10,527.00	7,578.00
Queries per second	105,270.00	75,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.16	0.33
Average Latency (ms)	0.95	1.32
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.25	3.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.23	1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	17,123.00	12,520.00
Queries per second	171,230.00	125,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	0.58	0.8
Maximum Latency (ms)	2	3.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.78	1.06

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	16,979.00	13,084.00
Queries per second	169,790.00	130,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	0.59	0.76
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.13	4.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	0.99

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	156,424.00	116,263.00
Queries per second	1,564,240.00	1,162,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.87	3.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.12

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	88,652.48	53,022.27
PING_MBULK per Second	89,605.73	58,139.54
SET per Second	90,171.33	58,309.04
GET per Second	90,579.71	59,453.03
INCR per Second	90,744.10	60,024.01
LPUSH per Second	90,497.73	58,997.05
RPUSH per Second	90,415.91	59,916.12
LPOP per Second	90,909.09	60,938.45
RPOP per Second	90,661.83	61,804.70
SADD per Second	90,252.70	62,189.05
HSET per Second	90,415.91	63,131.31
SPOP per Second	89,928.05	61,274.51
ZADD per Second	90,415.91	61,312.08
ZPOPMIN per Second	90,009.01	63,653.72
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	66,533.60	42,535.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	36,179.45	25,018.76
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	26,239.83	17,895.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	22,547.91	15,649.45
MSET (10 keys) per Second	88,105.73	61,199.51

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.30	0.49
PING_MBULK	0.29	0.44
SET	0.29	0.44
GET	0.29	0.43
INCR	0.28	0.43
LPUSH	0.29	0.44
RPUSH	0.29	0.43
LPOP	0.28	0.43
RPOP	0.28	0.42
SADD	0.29	0.47
HSET	0.29	0.45
SPOP	0.29	0.42
ZADD	0.29	0.43
ZPOPMIN	0.29	0.45
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.39	0.87
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.71	1.46
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	0.97	1.69
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.14	1.77
MSET (10 keys)	0.30	0.45

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon analyzing the benchmark performance, the High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance from Vultr shows excellent performance in Redis operations with high request rates per second (rps) and low latency across various commands, along with good CPU and file I/O performance, making it suitable for memory-intensive and low-latency applications. Conversely, the High Performance Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance demonstrates superior overall performance across the board, with higher rps rates, lower latencies, and more robust CPU, memory, and I/O operations, making it ideal for CPU-intensive, I/O-heavy, and large-scale applications requiring substantial computational and data throughput capabilities. The choice between these instances will depend on the specific needs of your workload, with the former being a strong choice for less demanding tasks and the latter excelling in more resource-intensive scenarios.

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