DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:28:23 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:36:36 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
$12.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
64
Storage Type
SSD
NVMe
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Regular
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,294.60
3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,589.20
7,584.10
Events per Second
843.27
1,466.74
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.05
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.18
0.68
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.34
3.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.47
0.72
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,368,867.41
7,681,495.84
Mebibytes per second
3,289.91
7,501.46
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.83
0.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,248,162.62
7,602,534.50
Mebibytes per second
3,172.03
7,424.35
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.26
0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
545.13
4,496.60
Writes per Second
363.42
2,997.70
Fsyncs per Second
1,169.66
9,593.60
Read Mebibytes per Second
8.52
70.26
Written Mebibytes per Second
5.68
46.84
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.48
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
78.76
2.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
0.18
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,099.34
1,184.90
Average Latency (ms)
2,145.49
1,190.04
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,160.95
1,196.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,159.29
1,191.92
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,001.00
9,469.00
Queries per second
50,010.00
94,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.21
0.89
Average Latency (ms)
2
1.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.66
5.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
2.03
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
738.00
10,900.00
Queries per second
7,380.00
109,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
4.83
0.63
Average Latency (ms)
13.55
0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)
58.05
8.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
25.28
1.18
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
613.00
4,779.00
Queries per second
6,130.00
47,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
7.34
1.69
Average Latency (ms)
16.32
2.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
67.72
7.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
30.81
2.52
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,035.00
19,198.00
Queries per second
10,350.00
191,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.79
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
9.65
0.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
48.93
4.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
16.71
0.65
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
734,741.00
2,016,592.00
Queries per second
7,347,410.00
20,165,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
888.59
230.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
128,886.00
218,879.00
Queries per second
1,288,860.00
2,188,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.52
2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.12
0.05
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,691.00
7,852.00
Queries per second
26,910.00
78,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
3.71
1.27
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.34
3.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.28
1.7
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,433.00
11,560.00
Queries per second
34,330.00
115,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.79
0.29
Average Latency (ms)
2.91
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.06
3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5
1.12
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,000.00
18,734.00
Queries per second
10,000.00
187,340.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.62
0.38
Average Latency (ms)
9.99
0.53
Maximum Latency (ms)
38.48
4.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
18.28
0.72
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
835.00
18,579.00
Queries per second
8,350.00
185,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.33
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
11.98
0.54
Maximum Latency (ms)
340.24
12.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
24.38
0.69
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,488.00
154,977.00
Queries per second
34,880.00
1,549,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
2.87
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
57.43
4.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
14.73
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
32,051.28
54,734.54
PING_MBULK per Second
29,629.63
53,475.94
SET per Second
30,571.69
54,288.82
GET per Second
26,511.13
54,914.88
INCR per Second
36,469.73
55,401.66
LPUSH per Second
26,709.40
53,792.36
RPUSH per Second
23,741.69
54,525.63
LPOP per Second
29,700.03
53,078.56
RPOP per Second
28,985.51
52,631.58
SADD per Second
29,700.03
54,436.58
HSET per Second
29,770.77
53,619.30
SPOP per Second
28,473.80
54,734.54
ZADD per Second
29,806.26
52,659.29
ZPOPMIN per Second
31,104.20
53,561.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
17,519.27
36,845.98
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
7,340.53
22,696.32
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
5,113.52
15,885.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
4,561.42
13,700.51
MSET (10 keys) per Second
30,562.35
50,968.40
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.97
0.56
PING_MBULK
1.03
0.57
SET
1.03
0.57
GET
1.18
0.56
INCR
0.85
0.56
LPUSH
1.18
0.58
RPUSH
1.31
0.57
LPOP
1.05
0.59
RPOP
1.08
0.59
SADD
1.04
0.57
HSET
1.05
0.58
SPOP
1.08
0.56
ZADD
1.05
0.59
ZPOPMIN
0.99
0.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.84
0.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
4.07
1.44
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
5.66
2.04
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
6.31
2.35
MSET (10 keys)
1.25
0.64
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB) instance outperforms the DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) instance in most benchmarks, notably in Redis operations where it achieves significantly higher requests per second (rps) and lower latency across various tests, and in MySQL bulk insert operations which it completes at a much higher transactions per second (tps) rate. For use cases requiring high throughput and low latency, especially for CPU-intensive tasks and heavy database interactions, the Vultr instance provides superior performance.
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