DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've got brand new 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. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:00:49 GMT
Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:09:02 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-31-generic
7.0.0-29-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) takes 6 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)
2,494.14
3,792.05
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,988.27
7,584.10
Events per Second
705.37
1,433.50
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.41
0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.76
3.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2
0.73
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,663,208.77
6,381,196.95
Mebibytes per second
3,577.35
6,231.64
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.47
0.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Operations per second
3,890,887.47
7,590,256.83
Mebibytes per second
3,799.69
7,412.36
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.33
0.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Reads per Second
2,194.30
4,797.61
Writes per Second
1,462.87
3,198.41
Fsyncs per Second
4,688.57
10,240.61
Read Mebibytes per Second
34.29
74.96
Written Mebibytes per Second
22.86
49.98
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.12
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.7
19.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.32
0.15
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,352.19
1,120.95
Average Latency (ms)
2,382.76
1,127.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,393.79
1,132.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,405.65
1,129.24
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,593.00
10,238.00
Queries per second
45,930.00
102,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.29
0.9
Average Latency (ms)
2.17
0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.82
2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
1.06
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,486.00
12,564.00
Queries per second
34,860.00
125,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.26
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
2.86
0.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
33.41
8.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.33
0.97
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,761.00
5,279.00
Queries per second
17,610.00
52,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.36
1.64
Average Latency (ms)
5.67
1.89
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.69
4.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.98
2.22
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,877.00
22,126.00
Queries per second
68,770.00
221,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.65
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.45
0.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.48
2.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
0.53
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
833,039.00
1,958,342.00
Queries per second
8,330,390.00
19,583,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
670.02
207.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
122,209.00
216,335.00
Queries per second
1,222,090.00
2,163,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.73
1.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.14
0.06
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,294.00
8,316.00
Queries per second
32,940.00
83,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.13
0.4
Average Latency (ms)
3.03
1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.77
3.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.65
1.55
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,143.00
11,393.00
Queries per second
51,430.00
113,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.52
0.24
Average Latency (ms)
1.94
0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.8
2.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
1.12
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,821.00
20,610.00
Queries per second
58,210.00
206,100.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.62
0.36
Average Latency (ms)
1.71
0.48
Maximum Latency (ms)
21.71
4.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.3
0.65
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
7,391.00
22,150.00
Queries per second
73,910.00
221,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.57
0.37
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
0.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.09
9.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.14
0.54
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
Transactions per second
51,002.00
162,113.00
Queries per second
510,020.00
1,621,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.19
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
9.61
4.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
0.09
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
31,026.99
50,327.12
PING_MBULK per Second
34,530.39
52,002.08
SET per Second
35,945.36
52,966.10
GET per Second
34,293.55
53,022.27
INCR per Second
23,820.87
53,219.80
LPUSH per Second
30,931.02
52,273.91
RPUSH per Second
33,014.20
52,056.22
LPOP per Second
30,553.01
51,679.59
RPOP per Second
34,459.00
50,890.59
SADD per Second
37,285.61
49,603.17
HSET per Second
29,002.32
51,466.80
SPOP per Second
32,195.75
53,134.96
ZADD per Second
30,562.35
51,948.05
ZPOPMIN per Second
29,342.72
52,742.62
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
20,024.03
36,832.41
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
11,069.29
22,041.00
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
6,976.42
15,622.56
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
6,141.75
13,980.15
MSET (10 keys) per Second
27,609.06
50,025.02
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.99
0.61
PING_MBULK
0.88
0.58
SET
0.86
0.59
GET
0.90
0.58
INCR
1.33
0.59
LPUSH
1.00
0.60
RPUSH
0.94
0.60
LPOP
1.03
0.60
RPOP
0.91
0.61
SADD
0.83
0.62
HSET
1.07
0.60
SPOP
0.95
0.58
ZADD
1.01
0.60
ZPOPMIN
1.06
0.59
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.62
0.85
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.90
1.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
4.30
2.02
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.79
2.37
MSET (10 keys)
1.25
0.66
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Vultr High Frequency Intel instance outperforms the DigitalOcean Regular instance in most benchmarks, particularly in Redis benchmarks where the Vultr instance achieved an average of 52,000 RPS for SET operations compared to the DigitalOcean's 32,000 RPS. File I/O throughput is also better on the Vultr instance with 75 MB/s reads and 50 MB/s writes versus DigitalOcean's 30 MB/s reads and 20 MB/s writes. For users looking for higher performance, especially for CPU-heavy or memory-intensive applications, the Vultr instance is the better choice, though it comes at a higher monthly cost.
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