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 High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe 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 High Performance Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up 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 or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 20:00:51 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	8	2
CPU Cores	4	2
Storage (TB)	240	60
Storage Type	NVMe	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	6	4

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Premium-Intel	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	1,995.31	2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	3,990.61	5,786.33
Events per Second	2,100.00	1,140.16
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.46	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	0.48	0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.77	5.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.49	0.95

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,031,036.30	5,101,642.66
Mebibytes per second	3,936.56	4,982.07
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.09	0.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,327,248.72	5,260,565.97
Mebibytes per second	4,225.83	5,137.27
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.18	1.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,848.36	4,398.81
Writes per Second	1,232.24	2,932.54
Fsyncs per Second	3,943.27	9,388.60
Read Mebibytes per Second	28.88	68.73
Written Mebibytes per Second	19.25	45.82
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.14	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.73	3.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.83	0.18

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	496.91	749.20
Average Latency (ms)	678.09	793.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	755.25	843.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	759.88	846.57

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,172.00	7,145.00
Queries per second	51,720.00	71,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.28	1.12
Average Latency (ms)	1.93	1.4
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.32	3.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.61	1.79

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,301.00	8,110.00
Queries per second	23,010.00	81,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.35	0.77
Average Latency (ms)	4.34	1.23
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.64	3.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.3	1.67

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,495.00	3,631.00
Queries per second	14,950.00	36,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.89	2.09
Average Latency (ms)	6.68	2.75
Maximum Latency (ms)	19.01	6.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	10.46	3.55

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,010.00	14,582.00
Queries per second	30,100.00	145,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.11	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	3.32	0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.62	11.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.09	0.92

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,201,092.00	1,492,342.00
Queries per second	12,010,920.00	14,923,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	566.03	314.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	157,927.00	197,860.00
Queries per second	1,579,270.00	1,978,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.99	0.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,434.00	6,871.00
Queries per second	54,340.00	68,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.45	0.57
Average Latency (ms)	1.84	1.45
Maximum Latency (ms)	14.81	4.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	1.96

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,582.00	7,407.00
Queries per second	65,820.00	74,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.57	0.53
Average Latency (ms)	1.52	1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.15	3.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	1.82

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,033.00	13,481.00
Queries per second	30,330.00	134,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	3.29	0.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	67.75	3.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.99	1.03

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,268.00	14,448.00
Queries per second	32,680.00	144,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.03	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	3.06	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.49	3.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.57	0.92

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	24,924.00	121,404.00
Queries per second	249,240.00	1,214,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.4	0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)	26.64	4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.81	0.12

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	93,545.37	62,189.05
PING_MBULK per Second	87,796.30	60,606.06
SET per Second	93,457.94	62,034.74
GET per Second	94,250.71	62,344.14
INCR per Second	85,106.38	61,349.70
LPUSH per Second	95,057.03	61,274.51
RPUSH per Second	86,505.19	63,816.21
LPOP per Second	89,285.71	63,291.14
RPOP per Second	100,100.10	62,814.07
SADD per Second	90,661.83	62,073.25
HSET per Second	90,415.91	59,559.26
SPOP per Second	96,432.02	60,496.07
ZADD per Second	97,751.71	62,150.41
ZPOPMIN per Second	97,751.71	62,539.09
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	58,997.05	47,125.36
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	26,191.72	26,143.79
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	15,961.69	17,905.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	14,390.56	15,535.19
MSET (10 keys) per Second	73,152.89	61,576.36

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.28	0.42
PING_MBULK	0.31	0.42
SET	0.31	0.42
GET	0.28	0.41
INCR	0.31	0.42
LPUSH	0.29	0.42
RPUSH	0.32	0.40
LPOP	0.32	0.41
RPOP	0.27	0.41
SADD	0.32	0.42
HSET	0.29	0.45
SPOP	0.30	0.43
ZADD	0.31	0.43
ZPOPMIN	0.28	0.41
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.46	0.57
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.05	1.04
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.04	1.47
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.12	1.72
MSET (10 keys)	0.49	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In comparing the DigitalOcean Premium Intel and Vultr High Performance Intel instances, DigitalOcean's instance with 4 cores and 8GB of RAM outperforms in most benchmarks, demonstrating higher RPS rates across various Redis operations, better CPU event processing, and superior file I/O throughput. While Vultr's instance shows respectable performance, it lags behind in multi-threaded tasks and larger data set handling due to fewer cores and RAM. DigitalOcean's instance is ideal for CPU-intensive workloads and applications requiring high I/O performance, making it suitable for demanding web applications, high-traffic services, and extensive data processing tasks. Vultr's instance, despite its strong performance in certain benchmarks, is better suited for smaller, less resource-intensive applications where lower cost and moderate performance are sufficient.

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DigitalOcean Premium Intel (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)