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