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DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:37:21 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 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 New York, NY Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $7.00 $5.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 25
Storage Type NVMe SSD
Transfer (TB) 1 1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor AuthenticAMD GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Premium-AMD Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 1,996.25 2,394.45
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 4,788.90
Events per Second 1,270.29 704.30
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.66 1.23
Average Latency (ms) 0.79 1.42
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.91 3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.87 1.73

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,259,692.62 3,595,908.88
Mebibytes per second 4,159.86 3,511.63
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.04 0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,578,740.48 3,455,305.83
Mebibytes per second 4,471.43 3,374.32
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.32 4.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,043.48 1,878.82
Writes per Second 695.66 1,252.51
Fsyncs per Second 2,238.59 4,014.75
Read Mebibytes per Second 16.30 29.36
Written Mebibytes per Second 10.87 19.57
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.25 0.14
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.9 11.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.92 0.4

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,955.91 2,084.67
Average Latency (ms) 1,970.75 2,093.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,977.87 2,098.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,973.38 2,082.91

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,004.00 4,684.00
Queries per second 60,040.00 46,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.22 1.71
Average Latency (ms) 1.66 2.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 352.46 9.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.96 3.02

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,993.00 3,785.00
Queries per second 29,930.00 37,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.31 1.46
Average Latency (ms) 3.34 2.64
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.24 33.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.91 3.82

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,677.00 2,104.00
Queries per second 16,770.00 21,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.14 3.41
Average Latency (ms) 5.96 4.75
Maximum Latency (ms) 81.28 10.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 10.84 6.91

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,786.00 7,970.00
Queries per second 67,860.00 79,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.79 0.8
Average Latency (ms) 1.47 1.25
Maximum Latency (ms) 23.78 22.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 1.7

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 931,337.00 734,741.00
Queries per second 9,313,370.00 7,347,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 1149.14 700.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 137,388.00 107,531.00
Queries per second 1,373,880.00 1,075,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.09
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.32 1.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.13

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,725.00 3,796.00
Queries per second 47,250.00 37,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.78 0.93
Average Latency (ms) 2.11 2.63
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.8 7.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 3.82

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,047.00 5,117.00
Queries per second 60,470.00 51,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.37 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.65 1.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 52.51 5.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 3.19

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,905.00 7,164.00
Queries per second 29,050.00 71,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.92 0.82
Average Latency (ms) 3.44 1.39
Maximum Latency (ms) 66.16 28.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 10.09 2.03

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,682.00 7,738.00
Queries per second 36,820.00 77,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.86 0.78
Average Latency (ms) 2.71 1.29
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.7 17.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.7 1.76

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 38,236.00 52,919.00
Queries per second 382,360.00 529,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.26 0.19
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.01 26.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 1.04

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 56,850.48 28,835.06
PING_MBULK per Second 61,162.08 30,778.70
SET per Second 57,570.52 28,918.45
GET per Second 57,636.89 28,669.72
INCR per Second 59,772.86 30,656.04
LPUSH per Second 57,142.86 30,911.90
RPUSH per Second 56,369.79 26,968.72
LPOP per Second 59,488.40 30,618.49
RPOP per Second 59,488.40 31,123.56
SADD per Second 58,962.27 30,358.23
HSET per Second 44,984.25 29,299.74
SPOP per Second 57,077.62 30,627.87
ZADD per Second 58,548.01 30,358.23
ZPOPMIN per Second 60,240.96 31,367.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 30,854.68 22,138.59
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 14,740.57 11,909.01
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,568.59 7,708.32
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 8,655.01 7,203.57
MSET (10 keys) per Second 49,043.65 30,312.21

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.561.04
PING_MBULK0.510.96
SET0.561.05
GET0.551.05
INCR0.530.98
LPUSH0.560.98
RPUSH0.571.15
LPOP0.541.00
RPOP0.540.98
SADD0.540.99
HSET0.791.03
SPOP0.550.97
ZADD0.551.00
ZPOPMIN0.520.95
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.111.44
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.312.62
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.103.84
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.654.05
MSET (10 keys)0.801.07

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

DigitalOcean's Premium AMD instance outpaces Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) in overall performance, notably excelling in Redis benchmark tests where it achieves significantly higher requests per second (rps) with lower latencies, such as 56,850 rps and an average latency of 0.557 ms for PING_INLINE compared to Vultr's 28,835 rps and 1.039 ms. For CPU-intensive tasks, DigitalOcean also leads, as evidenced by its superior performance in MySQL bulk insert tests, with a throughput of 81,811 TPS versus Vultr's 72,833 TPS. These superior benchmarks suggest that DigitalOcean's instance is more suitable for applications requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time data processing and high-performance web services.

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