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DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 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 and did some benchmarking. 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 (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:11:18 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:03:03 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 $14.00 $5.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 25
Storage Type NVMe SSD
Transfer (TB) 2 1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Tie
MySQL (read/write tps)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) takes 3 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 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 2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 512.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 3,992.49 4,799.99
Events per Second 708.66 747.20
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 1.23
Average Latency (ms) 1.41 1.34
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.44 4.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.61 1.61

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,392,467.16 3,468,220.65
Mebibytes per second 3,312.96 3,386.93
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.02 2.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 5,222,214.40 3,710,866.55
Mebibytes per second 5,099.82 3,623.89
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.39 0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,898.43 1,891.00
Writes per Second 1,265.62 1,260.60
Fsyncs per Second 4,052.28 4,039.68
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.66 29.55
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.78 19.70
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.14
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.66 6.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.49 0.33

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 1,638.91 2,212.92
Average Latency (ms) 1,646.82 2,218.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 1,653.32 2,222.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1,648.20 2,238.47

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,225.00 4,645.00
Queries per second 72,250.00 46,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.16 1.76
Average Latency (ms) 1.38 2.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.03 6.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.82 2.97

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,858.00 3,815.00
Queries per second 48,580.00 38,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.06 1.64
Average Latency (ms) 2.06 2.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 18.55 21.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 3.55

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,569.00 1,258.00
Queries per second 25,690.00 12,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.53 3.82
Average Latency (ms) 3.89 7.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 31.93 2585.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.57 8.58

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,028.00 4,318.00
Queries per second 70,280.00 43,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 1.13
Average Latency (ms) 1.42 2.31
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.53 41.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.48 4.18

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,346,717.00 800,273.00
Queries per second 13,467,170.00 8,002,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 407.94 573.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 163,275.00 99,416.00
Queries per second 1,632,750.00 994,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 1 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.15

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,941.00 3,664.00
Queries per second 59,410.00 36,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.51 0.6
Average Latency (ms) 1.68 2.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 4 10.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 4.25

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,397.00 5,031.00
Queries per second 73,970.00 50,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.39 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 1.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.62 12.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 3.25

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,797.00 5,894.00
Queries per second 77,970.00 58,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 1.05
Average Latency (ms) 1.28 1.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.43 17.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 2.39

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,389.00 5,867.00
Queries per second 73,890.00 58,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.72 1.04
Average Latency (ms) 1.35 1.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.13 10.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 2.48

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 53,947.00 27,369.00
Queries per second 539,470.00 273,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.18 0.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.82 22.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.12 1.86

Redis

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 69,300.07 29,316.92
PING_MBULK per Second 69,637.88 27,233.12
SET per Second 69,156.30 23,980.81
GET per Second 70,077.09 27,925.16
INCR per Second 64,557.78 29,316.92
LPUSH per Second 66,889.63 26,260.50
RPUSH per Second 68,259.38 27,292.58
LPOP per Second 63,938.62 28,810.14
RPOP per Second 66,844.91 27,517.89
SADD per Second 67,430.88 28,776.98
HSET per Second 70,028.02 28,490.03
SPOP per Second 67,430.88 25,746.65
ZADD per Second 64,184.86 27,987.69
ZPOPMIN per Second 59,737.16 28,176.95
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 38,417.21 20,345.88
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,416.21 10,920.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 12,968.49 7,457.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,951.70 7,261.64
MSET (10 keys) per Second 59,630.29 29,188.56

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.461.04
PING_MBULK0.451.10
SET0.461.29
GET0.451.08
INCR0.491.03
LPUSH0.481.17
RPUSH0.471.12
LPOP0.511.07
RPOP0.481.11
SADD0.471.05
HSET0.461.07
SPOP0.471.18
ZADD0.501.09
ZPOPMIN0.531.07
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.911.57
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.802.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.633.99
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.014.07
MSET (10 keys)0.681.15

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) instance outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) in most benchmarks. For example, DigitalOcean's instance delivers higher Redis operations per second and lower latency across various Redis commands, such as GET with 65,832.78 RPS and 0.479 ms average latency compared to Vultr's 27,925.16 RPS and 1.081 ms. Similarly, DigitalOcean's CPU benchmark results in higher events per second (644.39 vs. 747.2) and significantly better file I/O throughput (25.77 MiB/s read vs. 29.55 MiB/s on Vultr). DigitalOcean is better suited for CPU-intensive tasks and applications requiring high I/O performance, while Vultr's lower cost might be attractive for less demanding use cases.

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