How much does DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) is $6.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD of storage, and 1 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) is $10.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB)?

DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) has 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD of storage, and 1 TB of monthly transfer for $6.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Regular 1 GB vs Vultr Cloud Compute 2 GB: $6 VPS Benchmarks (2026)

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked	Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:28:23 GMT	Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:33:36 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	7.0.0-27-generic	7.0.0-27-generic
MySQL Version	8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1	8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version	8.0.5	8.0.5
Location	New York, NY	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$6.00	$10.00
RAM (GB)	1	2
CPU Cores	1	1
Storage (TB)	25	50
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	1	2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

Category	Winner
CPU (events/sec)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,294.60	3,791.94
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,589.20	7,583.88
Events per Second	843.27	1,435.42
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.05	0.67
Average Latency (ms)	1.18	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	2.34	4.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.47	0.74

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,368,867.41	7,568,455.18
Mebibytes per second	3,289.91	7,391.07
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.83	0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second	3,248,162.62	7,598,419.58
Mebibytes per second	3,172.03	7,420.33
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.26	0.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second	545.13	4,001.75
Writes per Second	363.42	2,667.80
Fsyncs per Second	1,169.66	8,546.24
Read Mebibytes per Second	8.52	62.53
Written Mebibytes per Second	5.68	41.68
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.48	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	78.76	24.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.79	0.2

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,099.34	1,145.72
Average Latency (ms)	2,145.49	1,154.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,160.95	1,160.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,159.29	1,170.65

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	5,001.00	9,706.00
Queries per second	50,010.00	97,060.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.21	0.91
Average Latency (ms)	2	1.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	17.66	2.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	1.18

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	738.00	7,666.00
Queries per second	7,380.00	76,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.83	0.67
Average Latency (ms)	13.55	1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)	58.05	158.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	25.28	1.42

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	613.00	3,938.00
Queries per second	6,130.00	39,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	7.34	1.82
Average Latency (ms)	16.32	2.54
Maximum Latency (ms)	67.72	51.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	30.81	3.13

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,035.00	18,012.00
Queries per second	10,350.00	180,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.79	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	9.65	0.55
Maximum Latency (ms)	48.93	44.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	16.71	0.73

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	734,741.00	1,870,967.00
Queries per second	7,347,410.00	18,709,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	888.59	225.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	128,886.00	213,062.00
Queries per second	1,288,860.00	2,130,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.05	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.52	1.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	2,691.00	7,351.00
Queries per second	26,910.00	73,510.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.22	0.41
Average Latency (ms)	3.71	1.36
Maximum Latency (ms)	15.34	5.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.28	2.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,433.00	9,954.00
Queries per second	34,330.00	99,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.79	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	2.91	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.06	4.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5	1.58

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	1,000.00	16,749.00
Queries per second	10,000.00	167,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.62	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	9.99	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.48	83.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	18.28	0.8

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	835.00	17,638.00
Queries per second	8,350.00	176,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.33	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	11.98	0.57
Maximum Latency (ms)	340.24	77.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	24.38	0.75

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second	3,488.00	145,888.00
Queries per second	34,880.00	1,458,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	2.87	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	57.43	4.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	14.73	0.1

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second	32,051.28	50,838.84
PING_MBULK per Second	29,629.63	50,761.42
SET per Second	30,571.69	52,192.07
GET per Second	26,511.13	52,383.45
INCR per Second	36,469.73	52,938.06
LPUSH per Second	26,709.40	51,813.47
RPUSH per Second	23,741.69	51,572.98
LPOP per Second	29,700.03	50,968.40
RPOP per Second	28,985.51	50,479.56
SADD per Second	29,700.03	51,308.36
HSET per Second	29,770.77	49,925.11
SPOP per Second	28,473.80	50,890.59
ZADD per Second	29,806.26	50,505.05
ZPOPMIN per Second	31,104.20	50,968.40
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	17,519.27	34,399.72
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,340.53	20,016.01
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	5,113.52	14,332.81
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,561.42	12,966.80
MSET (10 keys) per Second	30,562.35	49,603.17

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE	0.97	0.61
PING_MBULK	1.03	0.60
SET	1.03	0.59
GET	1.18	0.59
INCR	0.85	0.59
LPUSH	1.18	0.60
RPUSH	1.31	0.60
LPOP	1.05	0.61
RPOP	1.08	0.61
SADD	1.04	0.60
HSET	1.05	0.62
SPOP	1.08	0.60
ZADD	1.05	0.61
ZPOPMIN	0.99	0.60
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.84	0.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.07	1.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	5.66	2.25
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	6.31	2.52
MSET (10 keys)	1.25	0.67

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr Cloud Compute instance outperforms the DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) in all major benchmarks, with significantly higher request rates per second (rps) for Redis operations, such as SET (DigitalOcean: 30,571.69 rps vs Vultr: 52,192.07 rps), GET (DigitalOcean: 26,511.13 rps vs Vultr: 52,383.45 rps), and MySQL bulk insert (DigitalOcean: 71,020.85 tps vs Vultr: 186,460.11 tps). Vultr also provides superior throughput for file I/O, reads, and writes per second, making it more suitable for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy applications.

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