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

DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) is $12.00/mo and includes 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of transfer.

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.

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

DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) has 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD of storage, and 2 TB of monthly transfer for $12.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Regular 2 GB ($12/mo) vs. DigitalOcean Regular 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 12:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-71-generic	6.8.0-71-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	New York, NY
Monthly Price	$12.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	60
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	2	3

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	DO-Regular
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,294.61	2,294.61
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	4,096.00
BogoMips	4,589.21	4,589.21
Events per Second	408.72	795.46
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.98
Average Latency (ms)	2.44	1.25
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.57	5.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	1.52

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,633,276.41	3,122,928.90
Mebibytes per second	1,595.00	3,049.74
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	3.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,592,941.48	3,116,343.29
Mebibytes per second	1,555.61	3,043.30
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.53	2.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,584.78	399.70
Writes per Second	1,056.52	266.46
Fsyncs per Second	3,385.97	858.95
Read Mebibytes per Second	24.76	6.25
Written Mebibytes per Second	16.51	4.16
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0.01
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.31	76.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.51	2.66

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,434.32	1,820.91
Average Latency (ms)	2,473.55	1,871.35
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,489.41	1,911.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,493.86	1,903.57

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,752.00	2,723.00
Queries per second	47,520.00	27,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	1.74
Average Latency (ms)	2.1	3.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.76	22.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	6.79

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,930.00	599.00
Queries per second	19,300.00	5,990.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.65	5.93
Average Latency (ms)	5.18	16.72
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.83	155.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.98	30.26

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,306.00	432.00
Queries per second	13,060.00	4,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.6	10.16
Average Latency (ms)	7.65	23.14
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.54	84.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	10.09	42.61

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,148.00	892.00
Queries per second	31,480.00	8,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	4.19
Average Latency (ms)	3.17	11.2
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.67	61.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	19.29

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	669,209.00	603,677.00
Queries per second	6,692,090.00	6,036,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	772.1	1262.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	136,020.00	86,662.00
Queries per second	1,360,200.00	866,620.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.33	30.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.17

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,617.00	2,577.00
Queries per second	36,170.00	25,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	1.2
Average Latency (ms)	2.76	3.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.27	45.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	7.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,087.00	2,249.00
Queries per second	30,870.00	22,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	1.65
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	4.44
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.52	35.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	7.56

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,586.00	642.00
Queries per second	25,860.00	6,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.8	4.61
Average Latency (ms)	3.86	15.56
Maximum Latency (ms)	45.13	264.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.21	29.19

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,094.00	769.00
Queries per second	30,940.00	7,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.83	3.87
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	13.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.75	68.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.65	23.95

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,562.00	3,449.00
Queries per second	195,620.00	34,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Average Latency (ms)	0.51	2.9
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.94	78.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	13.95

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	39,729.84	24,073.18
PING_MBULK per Second	42,176.30	23,089.36
SET per Second	40,833.00	31,665.61
GET per Second	34,590.11	34,782.61
INCR per Second	35,410.77	33,322.23
LPUSH per Second	39,184.95	33,749.58
RPUSH per Second	36,509.68	35,423.31
LPOP per Second	36,791.76	31,289.11
RPOP per Second	38,834.95	26,123.30
SADD per Second	35,727.05	33,046.93
HSET per Second	35,790.98	32,701.11
SPOP per Second	39,478.88	46,926.32
ZADD per Second	38,850.04	40,306.33
ZPOPMIN per Second	40,338.84	36,886.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	17,461.15	19,900.50
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,711.29	11,098.78
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,860.50	8,043.76
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,094.67	7,016.07
MSET (10 keys) per Second	32,041.01	42,698.55

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.83	1.32
PING_MBULK	0.78	1.42
SET	0.82	0.93
GET	0.94	0.79
INCR	0.93	0.82
LPUSH	0.85	0.83
RPUSH	0.91	0.78
LPOP	0.92	0.97
RPOP	0.87	1.26
SADD	0.92	0.93
HSET	0.93	0.88
SPOP	0.84	0.55
ZADD	0.86	0.66
ZPOPMIN	0.82	0.85
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	2.05	1.32
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.59	2.53
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	7.19	3.57
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	8.42	4.17
MSET (10 keys)	1.12	0.78

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmark data from both instances, it is clear that the DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) outperforms the Regular (2 GB) in terms of CPU performance, with significantly higher RPS (requests per second) metrics across various Redis operations and notably better multi-core CPU utilization. While both instances show excellent file I/O and memory handling capabilities, the 2-core version handles file operations faster. For applications that are CPU-intensive or benefit from multiple cores, such as high-concurrency web services or data processing pipelines, the Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores) would be the better choice. However, if budget constraints are a priority and the application does not require significant CPU parallelism, the Regular (2 GB) offers a more cost-effective solution without sacrificing performance in I/O and memory operations.

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DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB, 2 Cores)