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

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (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 High Frequency Intel (2 GB)?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 64 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $12.00/mo.

Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB vs Vultr High Performance Intel 2 GB: $12 VPS Benchmarks (2026)

Same showdown, different day. Today I spun up fresh instances from Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:02 GMT	Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:13:32 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	7.0.0-28-generic	7.0.0-28-generic
MySQL Version	8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1	8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version	8.0.5	8.0.5
Location	Newark, NJ	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$12.00	$12.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	64	50
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

Category	Winner
CPU (events/sec)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)

Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	3,696.00	2,893.21
CPU Cache Size (KB)	16,384.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	7,391.99	5,786.41
Events per Second	1,429.28	999.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.9
Average Latency (ms)	0.7	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.93	2.64
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.8	1.23

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second	7,573,259.47	4,899,364.23
Mebibytes per second	7,395.76	4,784.54
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second	7,520,809.77	4,958,374.18
Mebibytes per second	7,344.54	4,842.16
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.33	1.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second	4,743.82	3,921.65
Writes per Second	3,162.54	2,614.43
Fsyncs per Second	10,128.84	8,376.78
Read Mebibytes per Second	74.12	61.28
Written Mebibytes per Second	49.41	40.85
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.43	5.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.16	0.2

Mutex

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,135.02	1,859.93
Average Latency (ms)	1,145.46	1,885.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,150.95	1,898.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,149.76	1,903.57

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	10,014.00	9,027.00
Queries per second	100,140.00	90,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.96
Average Latency (ms)	1	1.11
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.96	2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.14	1.44

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	11,181.00	8,431.00
Queries per second	111,810.00	84,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.58	0.75
Average Latency (ms)	0.89	1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.24	9.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	1.76

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	4,056.00	3,610.00
Queries per second	40,560.00	36,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.7	2
Average Latency (ms)	2.46	2.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	19.4	15.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	3.75

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	20,663.00	14,727.00
Queries per second	206,630.00	147,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.32	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	0.48	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.62	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.64	0.94

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,870,967.00	1,201,092.00
Queries per second	18,709,670.00	12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	227.33	387.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	229,513.00	228,161.00
Queries per second	2,295,130.00	2,281,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.03	1.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.05	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	7,697.00	4,700.00
Queries per second	76,970.00	47,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.78
Average Latency (ms)	1.3	2.12
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.34	9.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.67	3.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	10,600.00	7,069.00
Queries per second	106,000.00	70,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.37	0.37
Average Latency (ms)	0.94	1.41
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.67	4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.25	2.26

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	19,067.00	15,156.00
Queries per second	190,670.00	151,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.32	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.52	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.86	5.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.73	0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	20,161.00	15,180.00
Queries per second	201,610.00	151,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.32	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.5	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.21	3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.67	0.9

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second	155,087.00	149,333.00
Queries per second	1,550,870.00	1,493,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.89	2.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.12

Redis

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	57,937.43	45,998.16
PING_MBULK per Second	57,670.13	59,916.12
SET per Second	60,096.15	57,438.25
GET per Second	60,938.45	50,581.69
INCR per Second	58,105.75	57,240.98
LPUSH per Second	59,453.03	57,306.59
RPUSH per Second	60,827.25	52,631.58
LPOP per Second	60,864.27	52,854.12
RPOP per Second	61,312.08	54,794.52
SADD per Second	59,066.75	59,382.42
HSET per Second	59,066.75	57,636.89
SPOP per Second	59,276.82	54,854.64
ZADD per Second	58,105.75	58,892.82
ZPOPMIN per Second	59,594.76	65,189.05
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	38,986.36	35,075.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	22,753.13	14,297.97
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	15,583.61	10,139.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	14,130.28	8,959.77
MSET (10 keys) per Second	54,674.69	50,761.42

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.52	0.70
PING_MBULK	0.51	0.53
SET	0.51	0.56
GET	0.49	0.65
INCR	0.51	0.56
LPUSH	0.51	0.56
RPUSH	0.50	0.61
LPOP	0.51	0.62
RPOP	0.50	0.60
SADD	0.51	0.54
HSET	0.51	0.56
SPOP	0.50	0.58
ZADD	0.52	0.55
ZPOPMIN	0.50	0.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.81	0.95
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.44	2.25
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.06	3.16
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.35	3.47
MSET (10 keys)	0.59	0.79

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the High Performance Intel (2 GB) counterpart in most benchmarks, especially in Redis operations like GET, INCR, and LPUSH, which respectively reached 60,938.45, 58,105.75, and 59,453.03 requests per second (rps) compared to 50,581.69, 57,240.98, and 57,306.59 rps. The High Frequency instance also excels in MySQL bulk insert transactions, achieving 184,521.71 transactions per second (tps) versus 117,769.09 tps for the High Performance instance. For users needing high throughput and low latency for database operations, the High Frequency instance provides better performance.

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