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Vultr Regular Performance Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB

New Jersey, US

Benchmark complete
Finished Oct 7, 2026
Geekbench 7 single-core
Skipped
Geekbench 7 multi-core
Skipped
Disk 4K IOPS
56,247
fio random read and write, 50/50
Median here: 56,726 over 2 runs in 90 days
Monthly price at test time
$5.00
Same price today

Server

  • Provider
    Vultr
  • Plan
    Regular Performance Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB
  • Location
    New Jersey, US
  • vCPU
    1
  • RAM
    1 GB
  • Storage
    25 GB SSD
  • Network
    Unknown
  • OS image
    2284
  • Trigger
    Scheduled
  • Queued at
    Oct 7, 2026, 02:40:00 UTC
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CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test Result Runs Spread
Copy higher is better 15.8 GB/s 3 0.245%
Scale higher is better 9.1 GB/s 3 0.217%
Add higher is better 9.62 GB/s 3 0.769%
Triad higher is better 9.73 GB/s 3 0.728%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test Result Runs Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better 112/s 3 0.315%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better 7,241/s 3 1.88%
SHA-256 higher is better 196 MB/s 3 1.38%
AES-256-GCM higher is better 2.22 GB/s 3 2.01%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better 1.3 GB/s 3 0.746%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test Result Runs Spread
Request latency, median lower is better 5.09 ms 3 0.908%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better 193/s 3 0.79%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better 10.4 ms 3 1.55%
Requests per second, average higher is better 192/s 3 1.14%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size Read Write Total
4K 109.7 MB/s (28,086 IOPS) 110 MB/s (28,161 IOPS) 219.7 MB/s (56,247 IOPS)
64K 185.8 MB/s (2,972 IOPS) 186.7 MB/s (2,987 IOPS) 372.5 MB/s (5,959 IOPS)
512K 205.8 MB/s (411 IOPS) 216.8 MB/s (433 IOPS) 422.6 MB/s (844 IOPS)
1M 211.7 MB/s (211 IOPS) 225.8 MB/s (225 IOPS) 437.4 MB/s (436 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

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Target Protocol Send Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G) IPv4 2.38 Gbps 3.14 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G) IPv4 2.9 Gbps 5.34 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G) IPv4 1.12 Gbps 3.37 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) IPv4 2.95 Gbps 1.75 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G) IPv4 9.14 Gbps 6.38 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method Operations per second Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync 4,431 0.226 ms
fdatasync 4,260 0.235 ms
fsync 3,109 0.322 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 3,300 0.303 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync 2,306 0.434 ms
fdatasync 3,741 0.267 ms
fsync 2,636 0.379 ms
fsync_writethrough Not supported here n/a
open_sync 2,066 0.484 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write 2,825 0.354 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes 2,145 0.466 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes 1,233 0.811 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes 170 5.89 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes 44.7 22.4 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close 2,329 0.429 ms
write, close, fsync 2,517 0.397 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write 645,137 0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 1,364 0.649 ms 1.09 ms 2.25 ms 4.78 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,752 4.16 ms 7.21 ms 9.67 ms 16 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,588 17 ms 41.4 ms 68.5 ms 104 ms 0
Read only 1 17,557 0.05 ms 0.08 ms 0.106 ms 0.421 ms 0
Read only 8 16,506 0.427 ms 0.755 ms 0.953 ms 1.92 ms 0
Read only 32 15,403 1.78 ms 2.61 ms 3.83 ms 5.83 ms 0

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 3.23 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload Clients Transactions/s Median p95 p99 p99.9 Failed
Read/write (TPC-B like) 1 770 1.15 ms 2.69 ms 3.89 ms 9.27 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 8 1,277 5.92 ms 9.32 ms 12.9 ms 18.7 ms 0
Read/write (TPC-B like) 32 1,304 23.3 ms 34 ms 42.1 ms 55 ms 0
Read only 1 2,053 0.483 ms 0.751 ms 2.15 ms 4.72 ms 0
Read only 8 5,732 1.31 ms 2.42 ms 3.99 ms 6.13 ms 0
Read only 32 6,614 4.2 ms 7.68 ms 9.46 ms 13.9 ms 0

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 32.4 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload Threads Transactions/s Queries/s Median p95 p99 Errors
Read/write 1 217 4,349 3.96 ms 7.43 ms 18 ms 0
Read/write 8 272 5,430 27.2 ms 46.6 ms 62.2 ms 0
Read/write 32 288 5,770 103 ms 174 ms 219 ms 0
Read only 1 590 9,443 1.58 ms 2.31 ms 3.25 ms 0
Read only 8 540 8,633 14.5 ms 18 ms 22.7 ms 0
Read only 32 516 8,253 61.1 ms 73.1 ms 80 ms 0

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 21.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix Operations/s Hits/s Median p99 p99.9
1:10 set:get 30,042 27,310 2.04 ms 4.26 ms 8.77 ms
1:1 set:get 31,124 15,562 2.02 ms 3.9 ms 8.58 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework Fortunes req/s Single query req/s JSON req/s Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
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WooCommerce

Page mix

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page 0.721 1.96 s 2.18 s 2.33 s 0%
Shop page 0.721 2.66 s 3.07 s 3.08 s 0%
Category page 0.721 2.38 s 2.82 s 2.95 s 0%
Product page 0.721 2.01 s 2.36 s 2.4 s 0%
Product search 0.721 1.8 s 2.02 s 2.08 s 0%
32 virtual users
Home page 0.901 7.28 s 8.37 s 8.88 s 0%
Shop page 0.901 10.1 s 11.5 s 11.7 s 0%
Category page 0.873 9.33 s 11.2 s 11.5 s 0%
Product page 0.45 8 s 8.19 s 8.23 s 0%
Product search 0.45 7.31 s 7.8 s 7.9 s 0%

Cart and checkout

Step Requests/s Median p95 p99 Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart 1.37 1.85 s 2.24 s 2.27 s 0%
Cart 1.37 1.9 s 2.13 s 2.15 s 0%
Checkout 1.37 1.52 s 1.74 s 1.78 s 0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart 1.5 6.5 s 8.57 s 8.8 s 0%
Cart 1.5 7.84 s 8.63 s 8.75 s 0%
Checkout 1.5 6.1 s 7.3 s 7.52 s 0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 67 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec Advertised Measured
vCPU 1 1
CPU Shared vCPU 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM 1 GB 956 MiB
Storage 25 GB SSD 23.4 GiB
Architecture x86_64 x86_64
Virtualization KVM MICROSOFT

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model
Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
CPU cores
1
CPU frequency
2394 MHz
AES-NI
Yes
VM-x/AMD-V
No
RAM reported
956 MiB
Swap reported
2.3 GiB
Disk reported
23.4 GiB
Virtualization reported
MICROSOFT
CPU steal
0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel
6.8.0-146-generic
Architecture
x86_64
IPv4 reachable
Yes
IPv6 reachable
Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan
Regular Performance Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line
Cloud Compute Regular
Location
New Jersey, US
vCPU
1 shared vCPU
Architecture
x86_64
RAM
1 GB
Storage
25 GB SSD
Virtualization
KVM
Network
Unknown
Transfer
1.02 TB
Port 25
On request
Monthly price at test time
$5.00
Hourly price at test time
$0.0070
YABS version
v2026-09-20
Ran at
Oct 7, 2026, 02:43:25 UTC
Parser version
5

Run timeline

Queued
Oct 7, 2026, 02:40:00 UTC
Server created
Oct 7, 2026, 02:41:12 UTC
First update from the server
Oct 7, 2026, 02:41:12 UTC
Completed
Oct 7, 2026, 03:53:36 UTC
Server deleted
Oct 7, 2026, 03:53:36 UTC
Cost of this run
$0.0086
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