How much does DigitalOcean Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $28.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of DigitalOcean Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)?

DigitalOcean Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $28.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Premium AMD 4 GB, 2 Cores ($28/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 30 May 2026 17:00:53 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-71-generic	6.8.0-117-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	$28.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	AuthenticAMD	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	DO-Premium-AMD	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	1,996.25	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	512.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	3,992.49	5,799.98
Events per Second	1,507.58	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.6	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	0.66	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.5	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.74	0.23

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,451,201.81	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	4,346.88	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.42	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,886,468.54	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	4,771.94	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.29	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,632.78	5,114.79
Writes per Second	1,088.52	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	3,483.47	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	25.51	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	17.01	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.1	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.61	0.12

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	882.26	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	948.17	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	982.40	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	977.74	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,052.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	60,520.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.36	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.65	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.73	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.11	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,898.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	28,980.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.44	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	3.45	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	93.68	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.28	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,886.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	18,860.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.15	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	5.3	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	84.59	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.43	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,486.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	44,860.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.06	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	2.23	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	18.55	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.68	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,434,092.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	14,340,920.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	414.91	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	119,923.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	1,199,230.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.68	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,111.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	71,110.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.49	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.4	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.53	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,087.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	60,870.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.44	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	1.64	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.34	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.22	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,391.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	43,910.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.02	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	2.28	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.67	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.68	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,148.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	41,480.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.28	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	2.41	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	18.58	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	26,739.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	267,390.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.37	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.65	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.39	0.08

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	60,386.47	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	58,962.27	57,903.88
SET per Second	50,100.20	57,703.40
GET per Second	51,387.46	57,703.40
INCR per Second	51,786.64	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	53,276.50	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	50,454.09	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	50,327.12	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	50,050.05	58,343.06
SADD per Second	46,576.62	58,241.12
HSET per Second	49,701.79	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	48,379.30	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	49,950.05	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	49,455.98	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	39,032.00	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	22,456.77	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	16,097.88	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	14,760.15	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	50,581.69	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.44	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.44	0.44
SET	0.52	0.45
GET	0.51	0.45
INCR	0.50	0.45
LPUSH	0.49	0.44
RPUSH	0.52	0.44
LPOP	0.52	0.44
RPOP	0.53	0.44
SADD	0.57	0.44
HSET	0.53	0.44
SPOP	0.54	0.44
ZADD	0.52	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.53	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.70	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.21	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.74	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.91	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.59	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark results for both DigitalOcean and Vultr instances, it's clear that the Vultr High Performance AMD instance with 2GB RAM and 2 cores outperforms the DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance with 4GB RAM and 2 cores in terms of Redis benchmark performance, with significantly higher requests per second (rps) and lower latencies across most operations, likely due to the higher clock speed and more advanced CPU architecture of the AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor used in the Vultr instance. However, DigitalOcean's instance shows competitive performance in CPU, memory, and file I/O benchmarks, particularly in memory read/write operations and latency, which might reflect the benefits of its premium network infrastructure. Given these results, the Vultr instance is better suited for workloads that benefit from higher CPU performance and lower Redis latency, while the DigitalOcean instance could be more advantageous for applications that prioritize network reliability and balanced performance across CPU, memory, and I/O operations.

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DigitalOcean Premium AMD (4 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)