DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last updated on August 1, 2026
New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were 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 Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:47 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:06:02 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-28-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$8.00
$10.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
35
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 Intel (1 GB) Memory (read MiB/s) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (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 Intel (1 GB) Value (CPU events per $/mo) DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-Intel
Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,100.00
2,593.91
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,199.99
5,187.82
Events per Second
2,013.81
929.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.48
0.95
Average Latency (ms)
0.5
1.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.98
2.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.53
1.39
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,187,334.90
3,441,276.65
Mebibytes per second
4,089.19
3,360.62
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.12
1.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,366,312.99
3,505,662.23
Mebibytes per second
4,263.98
3,423.50
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,182.02
2,556.83
Writes per Second
1,454.68
1,704.52
Fsyncs per Second
4,663.66
5,461.18
Read Mebibytes per Second
34.09
39.95
Written Mebibytes per Second
22.73
26.63
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.12
0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.91
36.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.42
0.24
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,139.85
1,783.52
Average Latency (ms)
2,170.02
1,799.40
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,181.39
1,810.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,198.52
1,803.47
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
8,593.00
5,535.00
Queries per second
85,930.00
55,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
1.57
Average Latency (ms)
1.16
1.8
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.7
4.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.61
2.07
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,104.00
5,739.00
Queries per second
41,040.00
57,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
1.19
Average Latency (ms)
2.43
1.74
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.59
29.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.3
2.35
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,212.00
2,265.00
Queries per second
22,120.00
22,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.65
3.24
Average Latency (ms)
4.51
4.41
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.28
30.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.32
5.67
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,241.00
11,053.00
Queries per second
62,410.00
110,530.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.63
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.6
0.9
Maximum Latency (ms)
25.45
17.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
1.16
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,171,967.00
701,975.00
Queries per second
11,719,670.00
7,019,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
459.35
625.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
234,610.00
152,246.00
Queries per second
2,346,100.00
1,522,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.04
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.37
1.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.06
0.1
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,162.00
3,020.00
Queries per second
51,620.00
30,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.76
Average Latency (ms)
1.93
3.31
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.87
8.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
4.33
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,424.00
2,424.00
Queries per second
74,240.00
24,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.49
1.46
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
4.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.12
7.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.89
5.47
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,010.00
10,298.00
Queries per second
70,100.00
102,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.64
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.97
Maximum Latency (ms)
37.55
20.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
1.39
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,487.00
10,146.00
Queries per second
64,870.00
101,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.54
0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.73
16.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
1.34
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
67,164.00
87,018.00
Queries per second
671,640.00
870,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.03
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.15
0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.58
112.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.03
0.23
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
68,728.52
31,908.10
PING_MBULK per Second
69,060.77
33,014.20
SET per Second
64,350.06
32,237.27
GET per Second
58,788.95
32,404.41
INCR per Second
66,137.57
33,300.03
LPUSH per Second
65,487.89
32,722.51
RPUSH per Second
68,259.38
32,404.41
LPOP per Second
66,755.67
32,206.12
RPOP per Second
66,800.27
35,063.11
SADD per Second
66,313.00
34,746.35
HSET per Second
66,533.60
35,001.75
SPOP per Second
69,979.01
35,701.54
ZADD per Second
60,938.45
34,602.07
ZPOPMIN per Second
63,411.54
33,898.30
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,372.98
16,764.46
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,378.97
7,578.63
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,220.46
4,631.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
11,273.96
4,000.80
MSET (10 keys) per Second
50,000.00
25,297.24
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE 0.46 0.96 PING_MBULK 0.46 0.92 SET 0.50 0.97 GET 0.54 0.95 INCR 0.48 0.94 LPUSH 0.49 0.95 RPUSH 0.47 0.96 LPOP 0.48 0.97 RPOP 0.48 0.90 SADD 0.48 0.89 HSET 0.48 0.90 SPOP 0.45 0.87 ZADD 0.53 0.91 ZPOPMIN 0.50 0.91 LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) 0.87 1.84 LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) 1.75 3.87 LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) 2.71 6.03 LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) 2.89 6.91 MSET (10 keys) 0.80 1.53
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) instance significantly outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) instance in both Redis benchmark metrics and CPU processing capabilities, with the DigitalOcean instance achieving higher request per second (rps) rates and lower latencies across most Redis commands. For example, the DigitalOcean instance delivers an average of 68,728.52 rps for the PING_INLINE command compared to Vultr's 31,908.1 rps, and its CPU events per second reach 2013.81, whereas Vultr's is significantly lower at 929.36. This suggests the DigitalOcean instance is more suitable for CPU-intensive tasks requiring high throughput and low latency, making it preferable for applications demanding significant computational power and fast data processing.
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