How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

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

Vultr High Performance AMD (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 Performance AMD (1 GB)?

Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB) has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $6.00/mo.

Vultr High Performance AMD 1 GB vs Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB: $6 VPS Benchmarks (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 spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:38:07 GMT	Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:36 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	7.0.0-27-generic	7.0.0-27-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	$6.00	$12.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	50
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

Category	Winner
CPU (events/sec)	Tie
Memory (read MiB/s)	Tie
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)

Evenly matched across 6 categories.

CPU

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	AMD EPYC-Milan Processor	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,900.01	2,899.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	5,800.01	5,799.96
Events per Second	4,263.00	4,293.15
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.22	0.22
Average Latency (ms)	0.23	0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.59	2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.25	0.24

Memory Read

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	7,394,314.05	7,457,004.06
Mebibytes per second	7,221.01	7,282.23
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.64	2.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second	7,435,901.40	7,502,263.36
Mebibytes per second	7,261.62	7,326.43
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.46	0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second	4,898.86	3,916.21
Writes per Second	3,265.91	2,610.81
Fsyncs per Second	10,451.60	8,364.68
Read Mebibytes per Second	76.54	61.19
Written Mebibytes per Second	51.03	40.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.49	5.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.19

Mutex

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,293.74	1,237.81
Average Latency (ms)	1,300.68	1,242.33
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,307.25	1,247.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,304.21	1,258.08

MySQL Read-only

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	13,568.00	14,686.00
Queries per second	135,680.00	146,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.66	0.65
Average Latency (ms)	0.74	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.22	4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.95	0.72

MySQL Write-only

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	12,148.00	12,995.00
Queries per second	121,480.00	129,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.62	0.63
Average Latency (ms)	0.82	0.77
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.71	7.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.01	0.89

MySQL Read/Write

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	6,113.00	6,399.00
Queries per second	61,130.00	63,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.41	1.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.63	1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.63	12.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.89	1.73

MySQL INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	19,984.00	20,372.00
Queries per second	199,840.00	203,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	0.5	0.49
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.15	2.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.6	0.58

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,278,717.00	2,482,592.00
Queries per second	22,787,170.00	24,825,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	246.62	190.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	365,463.00	387,870.00
Queries per second	3,654,630.00	3,878,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.03	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.85	0.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	11,124.00	11,757.00
Queries per second	111,240.00	117,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.3	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	0.9	0.85
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.43	3.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.16	1.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	14,369.00	14,693.00
Queries per second	143,690.00	146,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.18	0.22
Average Latency (ms)	0.69	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.88	1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.9	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	19,115.00	19,964.00
Queries per second	191,150.00	199,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.42	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	0.52	0.5
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.81	13.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.64	0.59

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	19,801.00	20,341.00
Queries per second	198,010.00	203,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	0.5	0.49
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.26	3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.61	0.58

MySQL DELETE

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second	264,739.00	267,422.00
Queries per second	2,647,390.00	2,674,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.02	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.79	7.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05

Redis

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	47,415.84	48,756.70
PING_MBULK per Second	47,303.69	48,402.71
SET per Second	47,281.32	49,164.21
GET per Second	46,728.97	49,091.80
INCR per Second	47,846.89	49,091.80
LPUSH per Second	48,076.93	48,923.68
RPUSH per Second	47,846.89	48,828.12
LPOP per Second	48,123.20	48,947.62
RPOP per Second	46,882.33	48,804.29
SADD per Second	47,984.64	48,971.59
HSET per Second	47,892.72	49,140.05
SPOP per Second	46,403.71	48,685.49
ZADD per Second	48,076.93	48,661.80
ZPOPMIN per Second	47,732.70	48,875.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	37,509.38	38,491.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	24,137.10	25,568.91
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	17,831.67	18,345.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	16,095.28	16,567.26
MSET (10 keys) per Second	47,460.84	48,426.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.66	0.63
PING_MBULK	0.66	0.62
SET	0.67	0.64
GET	0.67	0.63
INCR	0.65	0.63
LPUSH	0.65	0.63
RPUSH	0.66	0.63
LPOP	0.66	0.64
RPOP	0.68	0.64
SADD	0.65	0.63
HSET	0.66	0.63
SPOP	0.67	0.63
ZADD	0.66	0.64
ZPOPMIN	0.65	0.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.84	0.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.33	1.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.69	1.65
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.94	1.90
MSET (10 keys)	0.71	0.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB) instance overall, as evidenced by higher benchmark results in CPU performance, Redis operations, MySQL throughput, and file I/O. The 2 GB instance achieved an RPS of 49,164.21 for SET and 48,732.94 for XADD, showing superior performance compared to the 1 GB instance's 47,281.32 and 48,169.56 respectively. For MySQL bulk insert, the 2 GB instance achieved 247,121.35 TPS versus the 1 GB instance's 227,624.73 TPS. For file I/O, it handled 61.19 MB/s read and 40.79 MB/s written compared to the 1 GB instance's 76.54 MB/s read and 51.03 MB/s written. Opt for the 2 GB instance for applications requiring higher CPU, memory, and I/O throughput.

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