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DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:00:48 GMT Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:10:32 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-27-generic 7.0.0-28-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 $6.00
RAM (GB) 1 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 25 25
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 2

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Regular AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,494.14 2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 4,988.28 5,799.98
Events per Second 815.71 4,233.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.98 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 0.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.86 3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.5 0.25

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,956,759.89 7,457,681.72
Mebibytes per second 3,864.02 7,282.89
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.03 0.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,883,080.49 7,424,120.81
Mebibytes per second 3,792.07 7,250.12
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.51 0.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,180.62 4,024.70
Writes per Second 1,453.75 2,683.07
Fsyncs per Second 4,652.64 8,597.97
Read Mebibytes per Second 34.07 62.89
Written Mebibytes per Second 22.71 41.92
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.12 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.63 4.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.34 0.19

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,077.12 1,234.88
Average Latency (ms) 2,109.98 1,242.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,125.57 1,247.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,120.76 1,258.08

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,111.00 13,940.00
Queries per second 61,110.00 139,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.13 0.66
Average Latency (ms) 1.63 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 16.53 9.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.3 0.84

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,456.00 12,785.00
Queries per second 34,560.00 127,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.3 0.61
Average Latency (ms) 2.89 0.78
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.71 7.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.57 0.94

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,206.00 6,195.00
Queries per second 22,060.00 61,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.57 1.37
Average Latency (ms) 4.53 1.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.36 7.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.55 1.96

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,940.00 19,096.00
Queries per second 69,400.00 190,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.43 0.52
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.94 5.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.57 0.61

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,084,592.00 2,366,092.00
Queries per second 10,845,920.00 23,660,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 506.06 308.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 160,315.00 387,291.00
Queries per second 1,603,150.00 3,872,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.76 1.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,209.00 11,571.00
Queries per second 32,090.00 115,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.96 0.29
Average Latency (ms) 3.11 0.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.53 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.57 1.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,822.00 14,459.00
Queries per second 58,220.00 144,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.71 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.33 2.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.86 0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 9,262.00 19,878.00
Queries per second 92,620.00 198,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.52 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.08 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.4 10.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.82 0.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 8,187.00 19,848.00
Queries per second 81,870.00 198,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.53 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.67 3.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 0.59

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 79,336.00 269,641.00
Queries per second 793,360.00 2,696,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.13 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.85 1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.34 0.06

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 44,722.72 48,262.55
PING_MBULK per Second 44,267.38 48,590.86
SET per Second 47,687.18 48,309.18
GET per Second 45,351.48 48,146.37
INCR per Second 43,535.05 47,687.18
LPUSH per Second 39,047.25 49,164.21
RPUSH per Second 37,481.26 48,379.30
LPOP per Second 40,404.04 49,407.12
RPOP per Second 38,595.14 49,627.79
SADD per Second 38,834.95 48,520.13
HSET per Second 35,932.45 48,239.27
SPOP per Second 32,000.00 48,169.56
ZADD per Second 30,750.31 48,875.86
ZPOPMIN per Second 30,854.68 49,115.91
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 24,789.29 37,993.92
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 13,390.47 24,746.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 8,059.32 18,086.45
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,098.74 16,278.69
MSET (10 keys) per Second 41,928.72 48,947.62

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.690.65
PING_MBULK0.690.63
SET0.650.65
GET0.680.65
INCR0.710.66
LPUSH0.800.64
RPUSH0.820.65
LPOP0.780.64
RPOP0.810.64
SADD0.790.65
HSET0.860.66
SPOP0.960.64
ZADD1.010.65
ZPOPMIN1.000.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.310.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.441.31
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.791.68
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.251.91
MSET (10 keys)0.810.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD instance outperforms the DigitalOcean Regular instance in CPU and memory benchmarks, with significantly higher Redis operation rates per second and MySQL bulk insert transactions per second, showcasing better overall performance for compute-intensive and database-heavy tasks. Notably, the Vultr instance achieved 48263 RPS for Redis PING_INLINE and 235300 TPS for MySQL bulk inserts, outclassing the DigitalOcean instance which managed 4473 RPS for Redis PING_INLINE and 105310 TPS for MySQL bulk inserts, indicating it is better suited for CPU-heavy and memory-intensive applications.

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