DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)
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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. 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
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:00:28 GMT
Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:00:36 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-51-generic
6.8.0-60-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$6.00
$5.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Regular
Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,494.14
2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,988.27
4,799.99
Events per Second
781.12
802.73
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.92
1.11
Average Latency (ms)
1.28
1.24
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.15
2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2
1.32
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,900,667.66
3,975,665.48
Mebibytes per second
3,809.25
3,882.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.74
0.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,761,798.48
4,004,187.38
Mebibytes per second
3,673.63
3,910.34
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.85
1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,948.26
1,459.58
Writes per Second
1,298.78
973.12
Fsyncs per Second
4,165.03
3,117.81
Read Mebibytes per Second
30.44
22.81
Written Mebibytes per Second
20.29
15.20
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.13
0.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.66
8.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.36
0.58
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,456.66
2,084.97
Average Latency (ms)
2,486.28
2,089.70
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,508.28
2,097.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,493.86
2,082.91
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,813.00
4,502.00
Queries per second
28,130.00
45,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.61
1.94
Average Latency (ms)
3.55
2.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.05
31.1
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.09
2.57
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,303.00
2,284.00
Queries per second
23,030.00
22,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.57
2
Average Latency (ms)
4.33
4.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.31
100.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
8.13
7.98
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
759.00
1,642.00
Queries per second
7,590.00
16,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
5.43
4.28
Average Latency (ms)
13.17
6.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
44.46
20.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
23.1
9.06
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,405.00
1,644.00
Queries per second
44,050.00
16,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.86
1.41
Average Latency (ms)
2.26
6.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.49
33.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.96
11.04
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
835,750.00
931,337.00
Queries per second
8,357,500.00
9,313,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
554.15
671.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
87,090.00
95,917.00
Queries per second
870,900.00
959,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.78
4.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.28
0.14
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
82.00
1,134.00
Queries per second
820.00
11,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
62.94
2.17
Average Latency (ms)
122.64
8.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
189.27
56.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
164.45
12.75
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,110.00
4,487.00
Queries per second
31,100.00
44,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.06
0.82
Average Latency (ms)
3.21
2.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.7
5.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.74
2.81
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,203.00
2,322.00
Queries per second
32,030.00
23,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.92
1.29
Average Latency (ms)
3.12
4.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
36.64
29.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.99
8.58
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,254.00
1,434.00
Queries per second
52,540.00
14,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.81
1.54
Average Latency (ms)
1.9
6.97
Maximum Latency (ms)
21.28
104.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
12.52
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,710.00
1,435.00
Queries per second
57,100.00
14,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.11
Average Latency (ms)
1.75
6.97
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.56
34.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.43
12.75
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
31,645.57
37,579.86
PING_MBULK per Second
32,425.42
38,080.73
SET per Second
32,690.42
37,091.99
GET per Second
35,919.54
37,453.18
INCR per Second
32,776.14
36,192.54
LPUSH per Second
31,036.62
36,536.36
RPUSH per Second
30,349.01
36,927.62
LPOP per Second
30,721.96
36,859.56
RPOP per Second
30,193.24
36,670.33
SADD per Second
35,310.73
37,050.76
HSET per Second
35,855.14
36,509.68
SPOP per Second
35,174.11
36,900.37
ZADD per Second
33,944.33
36,832.41
ZPOPMIN per Second
35,026.27
37,565.74
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
19,102.20
24,078.98
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
8,449.51
13,144.06
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
6,010.34
8,947.75
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
4,945.60
7,753.74
MSET (10 keys) per Second
27,956.39
34,188.04
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.88
PING_MBULK
1.01
0.86
SET
1.01
0.89
GET
0.92
0.88
INCR
1.01
0.91
LPUSH
1.07
0.91
RPUSH
1.08
0.90
LPOP
1.09
0.90
RPOP
1.10
0.91
SADD
0.94
0.90
HSET
0.93
0.91
SPOP
0.94
0.90
ZADD
0.98
0.91
ZPOPMIN
0.94
0.88
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.90
1.40
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
4.27
2.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
5.92
3.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
7.23
4.39
MSET (10 keys)
1.26
1.01
Conclusion
After analyzing the benchmark performance of both DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) and Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) instances, it's clear that Vultr's instance generally outperforms DigitalOcean's in most metrics, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher requests per second and lower latencies across various commands. Vultr's CPU also shows better performance with higher events per second and lower latencies. The file I/O operations on Vultr are faster, with higher throughput and lower latencies. However, DigitalOcean excels in handling MySQL OLTP operations, especially in read-heavy workloads. For developers needing high-speed Redis operations and file I/O performance, Vultr's instance would be more suitable, while those prioritizing MySQL performance for read-heavy tasks should consider DigitalOcean's offering.
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