How much does DigitalOcean Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $64.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 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 (8 GB, 4 Cores)?

DigitalOcean Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) has 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 TB of monthly transfer for $64.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Premium Intel 8 GB, 4 Cores ($64/mo) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute 8 GB, 4 Cores ($40/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were 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 Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 23 May 2026 17:00:51 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	$64.00	$40.00
RAM (GB)	8	8
CPU Cores	4	4
Storage (TB)	240	160
Storage Type	NVMe	SSD
Transfer (TB)	6	4

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	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	4,988.27	5,187.80
Events per Second	1,083.84	1,100.82
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.81	0.88
Average Latency (ms)	0.92	0.91
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.68	1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.94	0.97

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	4,926,471.48	3,685,781.23
Mebibytes per second	4,811.01	3,599.40
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.12	1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	5,028,138.68	3,590,629.63
Mebibytes per second	4,910.29	3,506.47
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.1	1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	9,005.85	4,999.39
Writes per Second	6,003.90	3,332.93
Fsyncs per Second	19,216.97	10,670.47
Read Mebibytes per Second	140.72	78.12
Written Mebibytes per Second	93.81	52.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.03	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.73	37.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.1	0.18

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	368.89	369.37
Average Latency (ms)	411.83	416.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	446.25	441.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	442.73	442.73

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,974.00	5,144.00
Queries per second	79,740.00	51,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.11	1.72
Average Latency (ms)	1.25	1.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.16	7.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.39	2.35

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	8,417.00	5,108.00
Queries per second	84,170.00	51,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.8	1.15
Average Latency (ms)	1.19	1.96
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.75	12.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.52	2.71

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,964.00	2,247.00
Queries per second	39,640.00	22,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.89	3.08
Average Latency (ms)	2.52	4.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.72	29.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.13	5.28

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	14,095.00	7,630.00
Queries per second	140,950.00	76,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.43	0.71
Average Latency (ms)	0.71	1.31
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.04	29.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.97	1.55

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,696,217.00	898,571.00
Queries per second	16,962,170.00	8,985,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	280.17	505.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	202,406.00	149,465.00
Queries per second	2,024,060.00	1,494,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.05	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.33	1.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.07	0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,457.00	4,249.00
Queries per second	74,570.00	42,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.36	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	1.34	2.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.58	6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.76	3.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,293.00	2,637.00
Queries per second	72,930.00	26,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.41	0.94
Average Latency (ms)	1.37	3.79
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.87	6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.82	5.09

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,161.00	7,166.00
Queries per second	131,610.00	71,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.44	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	0.76	1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.3	28.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.06	1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,903.00	7,661.00
Queries per second	139,030.00	76,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.44	0.7
Average Latency (ms)	0.72	1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.04	33.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.97	1.58

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	146,817.00	69,690.00
Queries per second	1,468,170.00	696,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.03	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.6	27.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.08	0.87

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	98,716.68	54,436.58
PING_MBULK per Second	99,900.09	48,828.12
SET per Second	101,010.10	51,572.98
GET per Second	101,522.84	48,239.27
INCR per Second	100,502.52	52,328.62
LPUSH per Second	99,304.87	45,454.54
RPUSH per Second	99,304.87	49,751.24
LPOP per Second	91,491.30	53,390.28
RPOP per Second	93,632.96	53,648.07
SADD per Second	94,073.38	48,285.85
HSET per Second	100,806.45	51,493.30
SPOP per Second	101,626.02	52,910.05
ZADD per Second	101,522.84	53,504.55
ZPOPMIN per Second	101,214.58	53,590.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	66,181.34	28,645.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	31,162.36	13,131.98
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	20,798.67	8,529.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	17,667.85	7,479.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second	99,304.87	49,212.60

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.28	0.47
PING_MBULK	0.26	0.53
SET	0.26	0.50
GET	0.27	0.54
INCR	0.27	0.49
LPUSH	0.27	0.58
RPUSH	0.28	0.52
LPOP	0.29	0.49
RPOP	0.30	0.48
SADD	0.28	0.54
HSET	0.28	0.53
SPOP	0.26	0.49
ZADD	0.26	0.48
ZPOPMIN	0.27	0.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.45	0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	0.84	1.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.28	3.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.56	3.43
MSET (10 keys)	0.28	0.77

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Based on the provided benchmarks, the DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance shows superior performance in Redis operations, with higher request rates per second (rps) and lower latencies across a variety of commands compared to the Vultr Cloud Compute instance. The DigitalOcean instance also outperforms in MySQL operations, with lower latencies and higher rps rates for bulk inserts, read-only, read-write, and update operations. The file I/O performance for reads and writes per second is also higher on the DigitalOcean instance, as well as memory read/write operations and throughput. While both instances have low latencies for file I/O and memory operations, the DigitalOcean instance consistently delivers higher performance metrics. Therefore, the DigitalOcean Premium Intel instance is better suited for applications requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time data processing, high-traffic websites, and database-intensive applications. The Vultr Cloud Compute instance, while competent, may be more suitable for less demanding workloads where cost is a primary concern.

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