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DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB)

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My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 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) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:03:47 GMT Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:03:03 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 $12.00 $5.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 25
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 2 1

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Regular Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,294.61 2,400.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,589.21 4,799.99
Events per Second 370.52 747.20
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.05 1.23
Average Latency (ms) 2.69 1.34
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.47 4.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.57 1.61

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 1,545,738.03 3,468,220.65
Mebibytes per second 1,509.51 3,386.93
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.5 2.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Operations per second 2,729,753.92 3,710,866.55
Mebibytes per second 2,665.78 3,623.89
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 149.26 0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Reads per Second 475.95 1,891.00
Writes per Second 317.30 1,260.60
Fsyncs per Second 1,017.81 4,039.68
Read Mebibytes per Second 7.44 29.55
Written Mebibytes per Second 4.96 19.70
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.55 0.14
Maximum Latency (ms) 115.24 6.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.08 0.33

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,875.76 2,212.92
Average Latency (ms) 2,899.88 2,218.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,919.44 2,222.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,932.60 2,238.47

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,374.00 4,645.00
Queries per second 43,740.00 46,450.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.26 1.76
Average Latency (ms) 2.28 2.15
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.05 6.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.81 2.97

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 273.00 3,815.00
Queries per second 2,730.00 38,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.19 1.64
Average Latency (ms) 36.89 2.62
Maximum Latency (ms) 358.42 21.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 130.13 3.55

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 258.00 1,258.00
Queries per second 2,580.00 12,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 6.26 3.82
Average Latency (ms) 38.75 7.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 259.21 2585.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 123.28 8.58

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 796.00 4,318.00
Queries per second 7,960.00 43,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.03 1.13
Average Latency (ms) 12.55 2.31
Maximum Latency (ms) 223.21 41.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 63.32 4.18

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 374,315.00 800,273.00
Queries per second 3,743,150.00 8,002,730.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.03 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 3489.66 573.78
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 124,757.00 99,416.00
Queries per second 1,247,570.00 994,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 0.08 0.1
Maximum Latency (ms) 168.4 3.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.12 0.15

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,721.00 3,664.00
Queries per second 27,210.00 36,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.36 0.6
Average Latency (ms) 3.67 2.73
Maximum Latency (ms) 34.76 10.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5 4.25

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,783.00 5,031.00
Queries per second 27,830.00 50,310.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.51 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 3.59 1.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.87 12.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.28 3.25

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 454.00 5,894.00
Queries per second 4,540.00 58,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.46 1.05
Average Latency (ms) 22.01 1.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 345.88 17.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 102.97 2.39

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 263.00 5,867.00
Queries per second 2,630.00 58,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.54 1.04
Average Latency (ms) 38 1.7
Maximum Latency (ms) 442.22 10.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 110.66 2.48

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,343.00 27,369.00
Queries per second 13,430.00 273,690.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.07
Average Latency (ms) 7.46 0.36
Maximum Latency (ms) 266.15 22.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 34.33 1.86

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 35,701.54 29,316.92
PING_MBULK per Second 40,338.84 27,233.12
SET per Second 37,119.52 23,980.81
GET per Second 38,343.56 27,925.16
INCR per Second 36,710.72 29,316.92
LPUSH per Second 35,637.92 26,260.50
RPUSH per Second 34,891.84 27,292.58
LPOP per Second 33,400.13 28,810.14
RPOP per Second 32,615.79 27,517.89
SADD per Second 25,246.15 28,776.98
HSET per Second 28,645.09 28,490.03
SPOP per Second 30,138.64 25,746.65
ZADD per Second 31,735.96 27,987.69
ZPOPMIN per Second 34,770.52 28,176.95
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 17,424.64 20,345.88
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 7,678.13 10,920.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 5,190.49 7,457.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,344.61 7,261.64
MSET (10 keys) per Second 27,434.84 29,188.56

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.871.04
PING_MBULK0.751.10
SET0.841.29
GET0.811.08
INCR0.851.03
LPUSH0.881.17
RPUSH0.901.12
LPOP0.941.07
RPOP0.961.11
SADD1.231.05
HSET1.091.07
SPOP1.031.18
ZADD0.981.09
ZPOPMIN0.891.07
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.841.57
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)3.922.84
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)5.583.99
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)6.574.07
MSET (10 keys)1.391.15

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean instance (2 GB) outperforms the Vultr Cloud Compute instance (1 GB) across key benchmarks, particularly in Redis operations where it achieves higher request per second (rps) rates such as 48,100 for PING_INLINE compared to Vultr’s 29,317, and lower latencies. In CPU performance, DigitalOcean’s benchmarks show better thread fairness and execution times, with an events_per_second of 1294 compared to Vultr’s 747. Thus, for applications needing robust CPU and memory performance, DigitalOcean’s instance is the clear winner.

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