My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 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 (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked
Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:52 GMT
Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:52 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
$56.00
$20.00
RAM (GB)
8
4
CPU Cores
4
2
Storage (TB)
160
80
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
5
3
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
3,792.06
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,992.50
7,584.11
Events per Second
1,535.42
1,576.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.59
0.61
Average Latency (ms)
0.65
0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.89
1.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.69
0.67
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,867,578.39
7,849,685.24
Mebibytes per second
4,753.49
7,665.71
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.19
0.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second
4,347,879.44
7,856,320.45
Mebibytes per second
4,245.98
7,672.19
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.56
0.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second
2,384.51
8,095.12
Writes per Second
1,589.67
5,396.74
Fsyncs per Second
5,095.64
17,271.28
Read Mebibytes per Second
37.26
126.49
Written Mebibytes per Second
24.84
84.32
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.11
0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.42
1.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.58
0.11
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)
325.10
464.63
Average Latency (ms)
435.66
547.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
487.90
583.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
484.44
580.02
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,392.00
10,127.00
Queries per second
53,920.00
101,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
1.85
0.99
Maximum Latency (ms)
3
2.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
1.12
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
3,296.00
9,521.00
Queries per second
32,960.00
95,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.47
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
3.03
1.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.45
54.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
1.34
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,930.00
4,611.00
Queries per second
19,300.00
46,110.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.41
1.61
Average Latency (ms)
5.18
2.17
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.77
16.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.55
2.71
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,756.00
16,673.00
Queries per second
47,560.00
166,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.08
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
2.1
0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.66
2.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.25
0.84
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
1,434,092.00
2,249,592.00
Queries per second
14,340,920.00
22,495,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
418.16
217.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
125,686.00
228,323.00
Queries per second
1,256,860.00
2,283,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.84
0.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
7,055.00
10,527.00
Queries per second
70,550.00
105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.33
0.29
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.12
3.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.07
1.37
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
6,592.00
8,906.00
Queries per second
65,920.00
89,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.43
0.34
Average Latency (ms)
1.52
1.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.28
4.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
2.52
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
5,138.00
16,008.00
Queries per second
51,380.00
160,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.07
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
1.94
0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
39.78
2.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
0.87
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
4,781.00
16,237.00
Queries per second
47,810.00
162,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.13
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
2.09
0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.23
10.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.07
0.84
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second
41,513.00
149,460.00
Queries per second
415,130.00
1,494,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.03
Average Latency (ms)
0.24
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.7
6.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.67
0.08
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second
62,073.25
79,617.83
PING_MBULK per Second
58,719.91
79,554.50
SET per Second
54,171.18
83,125.52
GET per Second
64,308.68
81,632.65
INCR per Second
55,648.30
81,366.97
LPUSH per Second
55,493.89
75,642.96
RPUSH per Second
52,938.06
80,321.28
LPOP per Second
62,539.09
85,251.49
RPOP per Second
66,269.05
86,355.79
SADD per Second
62,189.05
85,178.88
HSET per Second
55,157.20
84,245.99
SPOP per Second
54,674.69
85,470.09
ZADD per Second
55,035.77
86,730.27
ZPOPMIN per Second
55,035.77
85,689.80
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
37,355.25
63,051.70
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
21,715.53
29,940.12
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
16,084.93
24,390.24
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
14,990.26
21,353.83
MSET (10 keys) per Second
57,770.08
84,175.09
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE
0.42
0.33
PING_MBULK
0.44
0.32
SET
0.48
0.32
GET
0.40
0.32
INCR
0.47
0.32
LPUSH
0.47
0.34
RPUSH
0.49
0.32
LPOP
0.42
0.31
RPOP
0.39
0.30
SADD
0.42
0.30
HSET
0.47
0.31
SPOP
0.47
0.30
ZADD
0.48
0.30
ZPOPMIN
0.47
0.30
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.78
0.43
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.26
0.96
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
1.71
1.11
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
1.91
1.23
MSET (10 keys)
0.47
0.31
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM offers consistent performance across various benchmarks, with high throughput and low latency in memory operations, making it ideal for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads that require substantial processing power and memory speed. The Vultr Cloud Compute instance, with 2 cores and 4 GB RAM, excels in Redis operations with higher requests per second and lower latencies, particularly in simpler tasks like PING and SET commands, but falls behind in more complex operations such as LRANGE and bulk file operations, indicating it may be more suitable for applications needing high read/write speeds with moderate CPU demands. Therefore, the choice between these instances depends on whether the application requires high CPU power and memory efficiency or high data throughput with slightly lower CPU capacity.
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