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DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB)

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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 all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:28:23 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:36 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 50
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 1 3

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)

Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) takes 6 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Regular AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,294.60 2,899.98
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 4,589.20 5,799.96
Events per Second 843.27 4,293.15
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.05 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.18 0.23
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.34 2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.47 0.24

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,368,867.41 7,457,004.06
Mebibytes per second 3,289.91 7,282.23
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.83 2.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Operations per second 3,248,162.62 7,502,263.36
Mebibytes per second 3,172.03 7,326.43
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.26 0.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Reads per Second 545.13 3,916.21
Writes per Second 363.42 2,610.81
Fsyncs per Second 1,169.66 8,364.68
Read Mebibytes per Second 8.52 61.19
Written Mebibytes per Second 5.68 40.79
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.48 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 78.76 5.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.79 0.19

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,099.34 1,237.81
Average Latency (ms) 2,145.49 1,242.33
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,160.95 1,247.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,159.29 1,258.08

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 5,001.00 14,686.00
Queries per second 50,010.00 146,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.21 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 2 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.66 4.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.66 0.72

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 738.00 12,995.00
Queries per second 7,380.00 129,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.83 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 13.55 0.77
Maximum Latency (ms) 58.05 7.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 25.28 0.89

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 613.00 6,399.00
Queries per second 6,130.00 63,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 7.34 1.38
Average Latency (ms) 16.32 1.56
Maximum Latency (ms) 67.72 12.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 30.81 1.73

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,035.00 20,372.00
Queries per second 10,350.00 203,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.79 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 9.65 0.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 48.93 2.44
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 16.71 0.58

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 734,741.00 2,482,592.00
Queries per second 7,347,410.00 24,825,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 888.59 190.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 128,886.00 387,870.00
Queries per second 1,288,860.00 3,878,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.05 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.52 0.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.03

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 2,691.00 11,757.00
Queries per second 26,910.00 117,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.22 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 3.71 0.85
Maximum Latency (ms) 15.34 3.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.28 1.08

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,433.00 14,693.00
Queries per second 34,330.00 146,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.79 0.22
Average Latency (ms) 2.91 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.06 1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 1,000.00 19,964.00
Queries per second 10,000.00 199,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.62 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 9.99 0.5
Maximum Latency (ms) 38.48 13.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 18.28 0.59

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 835.00 20,341.00
Queries per second 8,350.00 203,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.33 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 11.98 0.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 340.24 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 24.38 0.58

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
Transactions per second 3,488.00 267,422.00
Queries per second 34,880.00 2,674,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 2.87 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 57.43 7.11
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 14.73 0.05

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 32,051.28 48,756.70
PING_MBULK per Second 29,629.63 48,402.71
SET per Second 30,571.69 49,164.21
GET per Second 26,511.13 49,091.80
INCR per Second 36,469.73 49,091.80
LPUSH per Second 26,709.40 48,923.68
RPUSH per Second 23,741.69 48,828.12
LPOP per Second 29,700.03 48,947.62
RPOP per Second 28,985.51 48,804.29
SADD per Second 29,700.03 48,971.59
HSET per Second 29,770.77 49,140.05
SPOP per Second 28,473.80 48,685.49
ZADD per Second 29,806.26 48,661.80
ZPOPMIN per Second 31,104.20 48,875.86
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 17,519.27 38,491.14
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 7,340.53 25,568.91
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 5,113.52 18,345.26
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,561.42 16,567.26
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,562.35 48,426.15

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB)
PING_INLINE0.970.63
PING_MBULK1.030.62
SET1.030.64
GET1.180.63
INCR0.850.63
LPUSH1.180.63
RPUSH1.310.63
LPOP1.050.64
RPOP1.080.64
SADD1.040.63
HSET1.050.63
SPOP1.080.63
ZADD1.050.64
ZPOPMIN0.990.63
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.840.82
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)4.071.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)5.661.65
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)6.311.90
MSET (10 keys)1.250.69

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The Vultr High Performance AMD instance outpaces the DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB) in key benchmarks. For instance, Redis' LPUSH achieves 48,923.68 requests per second (rps) with an average latency of 0.634 ms on Vultr, compared to 26,709.4 rps and 1.177 ms on DigitalOcean. In CPU benchmark events per second, Vultr scores 4,293.15, significantly higher than DigitalOcean's 843.27. This performance edge makes Vultr more suitable for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy tasks, whereas DigitalOcean might be preferable for lower budget but sufficient headroom needs.

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