DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:00:53 GMT
Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-107-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
$6.00
$5.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Regular
Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,294.61
2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,589.21
4,799.99
Events per Second
413.49
820.77
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
1
Average Latency (ms)
2.41
1.22
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.72
3.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.96
1.32
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
2,931,810.57
4,183,460.82
Mebibytes per second
2,863.10
4,085.41
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.41
0.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,364,154.34
4,091,149.16
Mebibytes per second
3,285.31
3,995.26
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.03
0.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,031.43
2,036.96
Writes per Second
687.62
1,357.97
Fsyncs per Second
2,211.89
4,346.01
Read Mebibytes per Second
16.12
31.83
Written Mebibytes per Second
10.74
21.22
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.25
0.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
124.42
4.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.64
0.3
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,085.64
1,927.10
Average Latency (ms)
2,117.30
1,939.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,126.74
1,950.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,120.76
1,938.16
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,188.00
5,023.00
Queries per second
41,880.00
50,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.34
1.72
Average Latency (ms)
2.38
1.99
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.68
6.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
2.18
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
898.00
3,626.00
Queries per second
8,980.00
36,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.87
1.75
Average Latency (ms)
11.12
2.76
Maximum Latency (ms)
199.35
26.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
22.28
4.41
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
977.00
1,959.00
Queries per second
9,770.00
19,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
6.44
4.12
Average Latency (ms)
10.23
5.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
46.69
10.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
15.27
6.21
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,413.00
6,524.00
Queries per second
24,130.00
65,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.28
1.08
Average Latency (ms)
4.14
1.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
161.12
15.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.79
2.03
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
767,507.00
996,869.00
Queries per second
7,675,070.00
9,968,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
701.42
477.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
129,998.00
104,020.00
Queries per second
1,299,980.00
1,040,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.05
2.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.14
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,875.00
5,526.00
Queries per second
28,750.00
55,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.27
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
3.47
1.81
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.28
6.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.74
2.35
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,894.00
6,273.00
Queries per second
28,940.00
62,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.12
0.5
Average Latency (ms)
3.45
1.59
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.05
3.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.91
2.07
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,665.00
6,371.00
Queries per second
16,650.00
63,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.62
1.03
Average Latency (ms)
6
1.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
45.51
7.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
11.65
2.14
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,754.00
6,541.00
Queries per second
17,540.00
65,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.21
0.91
Average Latency (ms)
5.7
1.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
163.84
24.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
11.04
1.96
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second
15,267.00
43,573.00
Queries per second
152,670.00
435,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.07
Average Latency (ms)
0.65
0.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.8
7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.62
1.42
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
29,577.05
35,050.82
PING_MBULK per Second
36,496.35
33,534.54
SET per Second
32,164.68
36,010.08
GET per Second
36,589.83
35,149.38
INCR per Second
36,390.10
36,523.01
LPUSH per Second
35,001.75
37,369.21
RPUSH per Second
32,552.08
38,774.72
LPOP per Second
34,470.87
36,982.25
RPOP per Second
31,575.62
36,724.20
SADD per Second
28,546.96
36,563.07
HSET per Second
29,673.59
32,701.11
SPOP per Second
31,705.77
36,205.65
ZADD per Second
31,585.60
37,467.22
ZPOPMIN per Second
33,255.74
37,495.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
13,048.02
24,801.59
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
6,657.35
13,208.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
4,256.59
9,684.29
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
3,682.29
7,718.43
MSET (10 keys) per Second
19,047.62
33,602.15
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
1.10
0.93
PING_MBULK
0.90
0.96
SET
1.03
0.91
GET
0.91
0.92
INCR
0.91
0.90
LPUSH
0.95
0.88
RPUSH
1.01
0.85
LPOP
0.98
0.89
RPOP
1.06
0.90
SADD
1.13
0.89
HSET
1.09
1.01
SPOP
1.03
0.89
ZADD
1.04
0.88
ZPOPMIN
0.98
0.87
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
2.76
1.35
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
5.26
2.57
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
8.10
3.54
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
9.21
4.41
MSET (10 keys)
2.01
1.02
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Upon analyzing the benchmark results of the DigitalOcean and Vultr instances, it's evident that Vultr's Cloud Compute instance outpaces DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) in most metrics, particularly in Redis operations where higher RPS rates and lower latencies are observed, suggesting more efficient memory and CPU usage. Vultr also demonstrates superior performance in file I/O operations, with higher throughput and lower latencies. However, DigitalOcean maintains competitive performance in CPU benchmarks and has better performance in memory operations, though both are highly capable. The Vultr instance is more suited for workloads that benefit from higher throughput and lower latency in I/O-heavy and CPU-intensive tasks, while the DigitalOcean instance may be preferable for applications requiring stable, reliable memory performance.
From the friendly human:
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