Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 10 May 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-111-generic
MySQL Version
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version
7.0.15
7.0.15
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$7.00
$15.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
2
Storage (TB)
25
65
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
3
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
7,583.99
Events per Second
737.58
1,481.60
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.17
1.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.71
0.77
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,241,036.38
6,401,389.08
Mebibytes per second
4,141.64
6,251.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.23
0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,880,937.38
6,411,085.35
Mebibytes per second
4,766.54
6,260.83
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.84
0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second
1,551.42
4,345.71
Writes per Second
1,034.28
2,897.07
Fsyncs per Second
3,313.60
9,273.19
Read Mebibytes per Second
24.24
67.90
Written Mebibytes per Second
16.16
45.27
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.17
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.81
2.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.58
0.17
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,833.32
214.63
Average Latency (ms)
1,845.81
569.72
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,856.79
636.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,869.60
634.66
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,758.00
8,015.00
Queries per second
57,580.00
80,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.43
0.92
Average Latency (ms)
1.73
1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.42
5.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
1.86
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,378.00
8,497.00
Queries per second
33,780.00
84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.61
0.76
Average Latency (ms)
2.96
1.17
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.66
3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
1.55
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,651.00
3,726.00
Queries per second
16,510.00
37,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.4
1.78
Average Latency (ms)
6.05
2.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.79
5.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
8.9
3.43
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,234.00
15,028.00
Queries per second
42,340.00
150,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
2.36
0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.94
2.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.33
0.86
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,142,842.00
1,696,217.00
Queries per second
11,428,420.00
16,962,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
473.39
283.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
128,987.00
201,989.00
Queries per second
1,289,870.00
2,019,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.88
0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.07
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,220.00
8,025.00
Queries per second
62,200.00
80,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.35
Average Latency (ms)
1.61
1.24
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.7
3.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
2.07
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,514.00
8,336.00
Queries per second
65,140.00
83,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
1.53
1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.42
4.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
2.22
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,085.00
13,858.00
Queries per second
50,850.00
138,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.95
0.42
Average Latency (ms)
1.97
0.72
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.24
6.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.19
0.95
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,114.00
14,587.00
Queries per second
51,140.00
145,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.12
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
1.95
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.5
11.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.13
0.9
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
38,488.00
129,013.00
Queries per second
384,880.00
1,290,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.26
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.02
2.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.64
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
32,372.94
78,247.26
PING_MBULK per Second
35,087.72
74,738.41
SET per Second
36,363.64
77,041.60
GET per Second
36,088.05
83,333.33
INCR per Second
36,778.23
80,971.66
LPUSH per Second
36,101.08
79,113.92
RPUSH per Second
36,166.36
77,160.49
LPOP per Second
36,549.71
81,499.59
RPOP per Second
37,174.72
82,440.23
SADD per Second
37,105.75
80,192.46
HSET per Second
33,909.80
83,612.04
SPOP per Second
35,842.29
85,034.02
ZADD per Second
34,734.29
83,263.95
ZPOPMIN per Second
36,324.01
82,987.55
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
23,923.45
55,555.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,774.10
28,851.70
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,998.47
19,391.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,534.66
17,211.71
MSET (10 keys) per Second
33,322.23
80,256.82
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE
1.04
0.34
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.35
SET
0.94
0.34
GET
0.94
0.32
INCR
0.93
0.32
LPUSH
0.95
0.34
RPUSH
0.94
0.34
LPOP
0.94
0.32
RPOP
0.92
0.32
SADD
0.92
0.32
HSET
1.00
0.31
SPOP
0.94
0.30
ZADD
0.98
0.31
ZPOPMIN
0.93
0.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.45
0.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.61
1.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.94
1.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.63
1.84
MSET (10 keys)
1.05
0.38
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Upon comparing the benchmark performance of both instances, the Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) shows superior overall performance, particularly in CPU and Redis benchmarks where it achieves higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies across various operations. The Vultr instance also outperforms in file I/O operations with higher throughput and lower latencies, suggesting better handling of I/O-intensive tasks. The DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) provides slightly better memory transfer rates and cache performance but lags behind in CPU multi-threading capabilities and certain Redis and MySQL operations. Therefore, the Vultr instance is more suitable for workloads that require high multi-core CPU performance, bulk data handling, and lower latencies for Redis operations, while the DigitalOcean instance might be preferred for tasks that benefit from better memory throughput and have lower computational demands.
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