DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some 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 the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:00:52 GMT Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-71-generic 6.8.0-124-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
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 (Broadwell, 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 426.06 818.79
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.97 1.02
Average Latency (ms) 2.34 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.13 4.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.03 1.37

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,186,627.49 4,016,644.99
Mebibytes per second 3,111.94 3,922.50
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.13 0.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,529,570.35 3,983,147.38
Mebibytes per second 3,446.85 3,889.79
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 531.03 2,012.81
Writes per Second 354.02 1,341.84
Fsyncs per Second 1,137.44 4,294.21
Read Mebibytes per Second 8.30 31.45
Written Mebibytes per Second 5.53 20.97
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.49 0.13
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.65 5.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 0.35

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,179.34 2,100.95
Average Latency (ms) 2,192.91 2,112.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,199.32 2,121.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,198.52 2,120.76

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,443.00 5,273.00
Queries per second 44,430.00 52,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.27 1.65
Average Latency (ms) 2.25 1.89
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.86 13.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.76 2.07

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 732.00 3,981.00
Queries per second 7,320.00 39,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 5.99 1.77
Average Latency (ms) 13.67 2.51
Maximum Latency (ms) 43.33 128.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 22.69 3.3

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 401.00 2,042.00
Queries per second 4,010.00 20,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 12.07 3.94
Average Latency (ms) 24.97 4.89
Maximum Latency (ms) 157.04 58.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 44.17 5.88

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 867.00 5,470.00
Queries per second 8,670.00 54,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.9 1.13
Average Latency (ms) 11.54 1.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 78.4 111.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 21.89 3.13

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 701,975.00 996,869.00
Queries per second 7,019,750.00 9,968,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 927.69 648.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 136,327.00 112,678.00
Queries per second 1,363,270.00 1,126,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.06
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.09
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.26 8.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.13

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,493.00 4,976.00
Queries per second 34,930.00 49,760.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.97 0.83
Average Latency (ms) 2.86 2.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 30.03 8.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.96 3.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,982.00 5,987.00
Queries per second 29,820.00 59,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.73 0.54
Average Latency (ms) 3.35 1.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.26 10.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5 2.18

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 471.00 5,883.00
Queries per second 4,710.00 58,830.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 7.73 0.98
Average Latency (ms) 21.3 1.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 316.49 4.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 42.61 2.26

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 759.00 6,195.00
Queries per second 7,590.00 61,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 5.39 1.18
Average Latency (ms) 13.17 1.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 186.75 30.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 24.38 2.11

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,484.00 23,800.00
Queries per second 34,840.00 238,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.06
Average Latency (ms) 2.87 0.42
Maximum Latency (ms) 53.15 2553.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 14.46 1.7

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 37,936.27 34,129.69
PING_MBULK per Second 29,239.77 35,248.50
SET per Second 31,142.95 34,352.46
GET per Second 37,064.49 34,806.82
INCR per Second 36,886.76 34,199.73
LPUSH per Second 36,403.35 33,840.95
RPUSH per Second 36,310.82 34,698.12
LPOP per Second 35,087.72 32,041.01
RPOP per Second 36,873.16 33,400.13
SADD per Second 37,425.15 33,568.31
HSET per Second 35,448.42 33,489.62
SPOP per Second 31,867.43 34,855.35
ZADD per Second 33,579.59 32,658.39
ZPOPMIN per Second 36,886.76 33,134.53
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 15,003.75 22,158.21
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 6,284.57 12,084.59
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 4,604.48 8,313.93
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 3,898.18 7,367.57
MSET (10 keys) per Second 24,789.29 30,807.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.880.96
PING_MBULK1.120.93
SET1.060.96
GET0.900.94
INCR0.900.97
LPUSH0.920.98
RPUSH0.920.95
LPOP0.961.03
RPOP0.920.99
SADD0.890.97
HSET0.940.98
SPOP1.020.94
ZADD0.991.01
ZPOPMIN0.890.99
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)2.401.50
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)5.552.81
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)7.484.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)8.754.58
MSET (10 keys)1.511.10

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmarks for both DigitalOcean and Vultr's 1 GB instances, Vultr generally outperforms DigitalOcean in Redis operations, achieving higher requests per second with lower average latencies across various commands. Vultr also excels in CPU metrics, showing higher events per second and lower average latency. Both instances perform similarly in terms of memory operations, but Vultr demonstrates superior file I/O performance with higher throughput and lower average latency. DigitalOcean's instances show slightly better results in specific MySQL operations and overall thread fairness. Depending on your use case, if you need superior Redis performance and file I/O capabilities, Vultr would be more suitable. For workloads that require slightly better MySQL performance or prioritize thread fairness, DigitalOcean might be the better option.

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