How much does DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) is $16.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 70 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $40.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB)?

DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 70 GB NVMe of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $16.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Premium Intel 2 GB ($16/mo) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute 8 GB, 4 Cores ($40/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 24 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT	Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 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	$16.00	$40.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	1	4
Storage (TB)	70	160
Storage Type	NVMe	SSD
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Premium-Intel	Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,494.14	2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,988.28	5,187.80
Events per Second	514.29	1,100.82
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.88
Average Latency (ms)	1.94	0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.48	1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.97

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	4,111,052.26	3,685,781.23
Mebibytes per second	4,014.70	3,599.40
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.74	1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	4,877,747.49	3,590,629.63
Mebibytes per second	4,763.43	3,506.47
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.4	1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	3,544.61	4,999.39
Writes per Second	2,363.08	3,332.93
Fsyncs per Second	7,572.08	10,670.47
Read Mebibytes per Second	55.38	78.12
Written Mebibytes per Second	36.92	52.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	16.31	37.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.21	0.18

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,829.38	369.37
Average Latency (ms)	1,831.96	416.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,836.23	441.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,836.24	442.73

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,163.00	5,144.00
Queries per second	81,630.00	51,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.05	1.72
Average Latency (ms)	1.22	1.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.85	7.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.67	2.35

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,520.00	5,108.00
Queries per second	55,200.00	51,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.96	1.15
Average Latency (ms)	1.81	1.96
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.44	12.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	2.71

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,717.00	2,247.00
Queries per second	27,170.00	22,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.43	3.08
Average Latency (ms)	3.68	4.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	24.44	29.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	5.28

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,967.00	7,630.00
Queries per second	89,670.00	76,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.47	0.71
Average Latency (ms)	1.11	1.31
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.91	29.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	1.55

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,288,467.00	898,571.00
Queries per second	12,884,670.00	8,985,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	361.26	505.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	239,124.00	149,465.00
Queries per second	2,391,240.00	1,494,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.43	1.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.06	0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,803.00	4,249.00
Queries per second	58,030.00	42,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.5	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	1.72	2.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.05	6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.61	3.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,811.00	2,637.00
Queries per second	68,110.00	26,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.46	0.94
Average Latency (ms)	1.47	3.79
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.79	6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.22	5.09

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,445.00	7,166.00
Queries per second	94,450.00	71,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.49	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	1.06	1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.98	28.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.7	1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	9,706.00	7,661.00
Queries per second	97,060.00	76,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.47	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	1.03	1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.29	33.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.61	1.58

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	93,124.00	69,690.00
Queries per second	931,240.00	696,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.11	0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.84	27.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.23	0.87

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	67,069.08	54,436.58
PING_MBULK per Second	69,204.15	48,828.12
SET per Second	63,613.23	51,572.98
GET per Second	68,587.11	48,239.27
INCR per Second	67,842.61	52,328.62
LPUSH per Second	65,231.57	45,454.54
RPUSH per Second	64,977.26	49,751.24
LPOP per Second	64,808.82	53,390.28
RPOP per Second	64,474.53	53,648.07
SADD per Second	67,430.88	48,285.85
HSET per Second	66,979.23	51,493.30
SPOP per Second	69,300.07	52,910.05
ZADD per Second	65,530.80	53,504.55
ZPOPMIN per Second	65,402.22	53,590.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	31,959.09	28,645.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	13,848.50	13,131.98
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	8,906.31	8,529.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	7,353.48	7,479.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second	47,036.69	49,212.60

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.48	0.47
PING_MBULK	0.46	0.53
SET	0.51	0.50
GET	0.46	0.54
INCR	0.47	0.49
LPUSH	0.50	0.58
RPUSH	0.50	0.52
LPOP	0.50	0.49
RPOP	0.50	0.48
SADD	0.47	0.54
HSET	0.48	0.53
SPOP	0.46	0.49
ZADD	0.49	0.48
ZPOPMIN	0.49	0.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.14	0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	2.70	1.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	4.11	3.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	5.00	3.43
MSET (10 keys)	0.77	0.77

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Based on the benchmark results, the DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) instance showcases high performance in Redis operations, especially with commands like ZPOPMIN and LPUSH, achieving high request per second rates and relatively low latencies. It also demonstrates robust file I/O capabilities with high throughput and low average latency, making it suitable for workloads that require fast file access. The Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance, on the other hand, excels in CPU-intensive tasks with a higher number of events per second and superior multi-threading capabilities, suitable for applications demanding heavy computational loads. The Vultr instance also offers more RAM and better handling of larger datasets in Redis operations, though it shows slightly higher latencies in some commands. The ideal use cases for these instances are therefore quite different; DigitalOcean is better for applications requiring high I/O performance and moderate CPU usage, while Vultr shines in environments that require substantial multi-core processing power and larger memory for complex computations.

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DigitalOcean Premium Intel (2 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)