DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last updated on October 1, 2026
Same showdown, different day. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:09:47 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:06:02 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-31-generic
7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$7.00
$10.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
50
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category Winner
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 (2 GB) MySQL (read/write tps) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 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 (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
5,187.80
Events per Second
1,098.91
811.02
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.72
0.96
Average Latency (ms)
0.91
1.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.09
5.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
1.61
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,162,799.09
2,932,814.92
Mebibytes per second
4,065.23
2,864.08
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.5
2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,248,501.02
3,012,810.64
Mebibytes per second
4,148.93
2,942.20
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.58
2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,259.91
1,720.67
Writes per Second
839.91
1,147.11
Fsyncs per Second
2,696.32
3,681.86
Read Mebibytes per Second
19.69
26.89
Written Mebibytes per Second
13.12
17.92
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
0.15
Maximum Latency (ms)
48.77
13.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.67
0.55
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,291.63
2,497.94
Average Latency (ms)
2,304.59
2,514.76
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,317.78
2,531.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,320.55
2,539.17
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,879.00
4,434.00
Queries per second
48,790.00
44,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
1.67
Average Latency (ms)
2.05
2.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
42.95
6.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
2.81
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,925.00
3,735.00
Queries per second
29,250.00
37,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.54
1.39
Average Latency (ms)
3.41
2.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.27
23.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.18
3.68
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,482.00
1,945.00
Queries per second
14,820.00
19,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.5
3.65
Average Latency (ms)
6.74
5.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
25.47
12.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.27
6.79
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,894.00
7,066.00
Queries per second
48,940.00
70,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.88
0.79
Average Latency (ms)
2.04
1.41
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.26
11.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.62
1.96
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,026,342.00
669,209.00
Queries per second
10,263,420.00
6,692,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
488.41
671.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
126,782.00
122,191.00
Queries per second
1,267,820.00
1,221,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.76
2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.12
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,979.00
2,672.00
Queries per second
39,790.00
26,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.87
1.31
Average Latency (ms)
2.51
3.74
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.34
9.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.62
5.09
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,301.00
2,421.00
Queries per second
53,010.00
24,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
1.47
Average Latency (ms)
1.88
4.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.82
8.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
5.88
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,963.00
6,495.00
Queries per second
39,630.00
64,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.02
0.8
Average Latency (ms)
2.52
1.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.61
18.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.57
2.22
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,192.00
6,851.00
Queries per second
41,920.00
68,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.07
0.75
Average Latency (ms)
2.38
1.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.27
14.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.18
2.03
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
37,116.00
45,040.00
Queries per second
371,160.00
450,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.27
0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.61
16.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
1.34
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
54,259.36
27,419.80
PING_MBULK per Second
53,106.74
29,069.77
SET per Second
54,495.91
26,476.04
GET per Second
56,980.06
22,988.51
INCR per Second
52,938.06
23,618.33
LPUSH per Second
49,825.61
24,201.36
RPUSH per Second
51,124.75
25,252.53
LPOP per Second
51,072.52
25,568.91
RPOP per Second
50,327.12
25,227.04
SADD per Second
52,083.34
27,472.53
HSET per Second
45,537.34
25,207.96
SPOP per Second
52,826.20
28,320.59
ZADD per Second
48,402.71
26,838.43
ZPOPMIN per Second
52,083.34
27,824.15
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
28,710.88
14,322.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
12,250.40
7,071.64
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
7,739.94
4,639.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
6,953.14
4,115.40
MSET (10 keys) per Second
41,101.52
23,402.76
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.59 1.11 PING_MBULK 0.59 1.04 SET 0.59 1.16 GET 0.56 1.32 INCR 0.61 1.28 LPUSH 0.65 1.27 RPUSH 0.63 1.21 LPOP 0.65 1.21 RPOP 0.65 1.23 SADD 0.62 1.12 HSET 0.71 1.22 SPOP 0.60 1.09 ZADD 0.67 1.16 ZPOPMIN 0.61 1.10 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 1.21 2.14 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 2.68 4.07 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 3.95 6.04 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 4.40 6.75 MSET (10 keys) 0.97 1.58
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute in overall performance benchmarks, especially evident in the Redis SET operations with 54,495.91 RPS versus Vultr's 26,476.04 RPS, and in MySQL bulk insert tests with 102,423.8 TPS compared to Vultr's 64,434.86 TPS. For users requiring high throughput and low latency, particularly in CPU-intensive or memory-bound applications, DigitalOcean's instance is the better choice.
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