How much does DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)?

DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD of storage, and 3 TB of monthly transfer for $18.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Regular 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sun, 31 May 2026 08:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-71-generic	6.8.0-117-generic
MySQL Version	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1	8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version	7.0.15	7.0.15
Location	New York, NY	Newark, NJ
Monthly Price	$18.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	60	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	3	3

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,494.14	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,988.28	7,583.95
Events per Second	813.64	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	1.23	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.88	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.44	0.69

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,863,161.54	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	3,772.62	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.47	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	3,937,174.33	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	3,844.90	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.03	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,604.65	4,671.85
Writes per Second	1,069.77	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	3,429.94	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	25.07	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	16.72	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.88	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.4	0.17

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,275.46	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	1,454.38	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,488.79	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,479.41	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,594.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	15,940.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.68	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	6.27	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	87.36	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	24.38	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,576.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	15,760.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	6.34	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	34.54	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	14.46	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	582.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	5,820.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	3.92	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	17.17	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	125.99	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	47.47	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,759.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	27,590.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.36	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	3.62	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	34.11	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.04	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	964,103.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	9,641,030.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	459.02	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	54,163.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	541,630.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.18	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	23.62	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.43	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,859.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	38,590.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	2.59	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	53.87	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.55	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,179.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	71,790.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.38	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	1.39	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.44	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.86	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,435.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	24,350.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.15	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	4.1	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	52.68	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	8.9	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,495.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	24,950.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.37	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	4	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	40.4	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	8.9	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	13,719.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	137,190.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.73	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	38.65	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.25	0.07

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	78,740.16	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	77,821.02	89,605.73
SET per Second	75,815.01	90,171.33
GET per Second	75,414.78	90,579.71
INCR per Second	76,628.36	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	76,511.09	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	79,617.83	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	79,808.46	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	74,074.07	90,661.83
SADD per Second	77,101.00	90,252.70
HSET per Second	74,294.21	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	72,358.90	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	78,616.35	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	73,800.73	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	53,705.69	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	27,218.29	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	18,573.55	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	16,578.25	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	73,206.44	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.33	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.33	0.29
SET	0.35	0.29
GET	0.34	0.29
INCR	0.41	0.28
LPUSH	0.34	0.29
RPUSH	0.33	0.29
LPOP	0.33	0.28
RPOP	0.35	0.28
SADD	0.34	0.29
HSET	0.35	0.29
SPOP	0.36	0.29
ZADD	0.33	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.35	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.52	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.13	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	1.47	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	1.62	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.36	0.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

In benchmarking both instances, the Vultr High Frequency Intel server outperforms the DigitalOcean Regular instance in terms of raw processing power, as evidenced by the higher requests per second (rps) across various Redis commands, notably achieving up to 90,000+ rps compared to DigitalOcean's 78,000+ rps, which highlights a more capable CPU performance, especially in compute-heavy tasks. The Vultr instance also demonstrates superior file I/O throughput and lower latencies across the board, suggesting it might be better for I/O-intensive workloads. However, DigitalOcean's instance shows consistent performance and lower latency in more complex Redis operations like LRANGE, hinting at its reliability in such tasks. Given these results, Vultr is ideal for CPU-intensive applications requiring high throughput and low latencies, while DigitalOcean's instance could be more suited for balanced workloads where complex data processing is needed alongside reliable performance.

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DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)