DigitalOcean Premium Intel (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. 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 or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:34:21 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:35:06 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-27-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
$6.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
35
32
Storage Type
NVMe
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
1
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Premium-Intel
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,995.31
3,791.97
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
3,990.62
7,583.94
Events per Second
1,569.73
1,438.92
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.5
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
0.63
0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.89
4.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.01
0.75
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,257,050.99
7,522,138.15
Mebibytes per second
3,180.71
7,345.84
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.04
0.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,792,553.48
7,678,825.83
Mebibytes per second
3,703.67
7,498.85
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.49
0.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,083.32
4,258.17
Writes per Second
1,388.85
2,838.78
Fsyncs per Second
4,445.91
9,093.60
Read Mebibytes per Second
32.55
66.53
Written Mebibytes per Second
21.70
44.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.13
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.6
9.54
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.43
0.19
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
3,034.96
1,111.88
Average Latency (ms)
3,055.67
1,119.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
3,070.73
1,123.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3,095.38
1,129.24
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,028.00
10,279.00
Queries per second
70,280.00
102,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.03
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.97
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.04
11.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2
1.06
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,496.00
10,923.00
Queries per second
44,960.00
109,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.09
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
2.22
0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.7
14.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.13
1.18
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,100.00
4,879.00
Queries per second
21,000.00
48,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.57
1.72
Average Latency (ms)
4.76
2.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
25.06
8.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.79
2.35
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,996.00
18,630.00
Queries per second
69,960.00
186,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
47.81
14.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.48
0.69
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
964,103.00
1,900,092.00
Queries per second
9,641,030.00
19,000,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
564.3
218.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
194,738.00
216,614.00
Queries per second
1,947,380.00
2,166,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.75
4.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.08
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,978.00
8,497.00
Queries per second
39,780.00
84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.71
0.29
Average Latency (ms)
2.51
1.18
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.86
3.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.18
1.5
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,387.00
11,456.00
Queries per second
63,870.00
114,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.54
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
1.56
0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.51
3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.61
1.12
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,587.00
18,358.00
Queries per second
45,870.00
183,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
2.18
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
49.21
7.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.49
0.72
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,624.00
18,692.00
Queries per second
76,240.00
186,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.31
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
27.61
9.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
0.69
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
Transactions per second
71,987.00
158,377.00
Queries per second
719,870.00
1,583,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.22
4.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.83
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
50,581.69
54,259.36
PING_MBULK per Second
52,714.81
53,504.55
SET per Second
56,211.35
54,854.64
GET per Second
56,401.58
54,288.82
INCR per Second
59,101.65
54,704.60
LPUSH per Second
41,084.63
53,050.40
RPUSH per Second
41,186.16
53,908.36
LPOP per Second
42,643.92
53,333.33
RPOP per Second
44,642.86
52,521.01
SADD per Second
44,072.28
52,994.17
HSET per Second
46,663.56
52,410.90
SPOP per Second
47,505.94
50,761.42
ZADD per Second
41,407.87
47,528.52
ZPOPMIN per Second
34,459.00
50,075.11
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
29,446.41
32,992.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,106.16
21,404.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,968.52
15,762.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,992.00
13,661.20
MSET (10 keys) per Second
46,620.05
51,519.84
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.63
0.56
PING_MBULK
0.60
0.56
SET
0.57
0.56
GET
0.57
0.57
INCR
0.55
0.56
LPUSH
0.79
0.58
RPUSH
0.78
0.57
LPOP
0.77
0.58
RPOP
0.73
0.59
SADD
0.73
0.58
HSET
0.69
0.59
SPOP
0.67
0.60
ZADD
0.78
0.65
ZPOPMIN
0.91
0.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.14
0.96
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.48
1.52
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.00
2.06
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.51
2.40
MSET (10 keys)
0.85
0.64
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
DigitalOcean's Premium Intel (1 GB) instance outperforms Vultr's High Frequency Intel (1 GB) instance in both CPU benchmark and database throughput, particularly evident in the CPU's events_per_second at 1569.73 compared to Vultr's 1438.92, and MySQL bulk insert transactions per second (tps) at 92686.57 versus Vultr's 189867. The DigitalOcean instance is more suited for CPU-intensive and database-heavy workloads due to its superior throughput and lower latency, making it ideal for applications requiring high processing speed and efficiency.
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