DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! 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 were created in the New York area (or close to it). Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT
Mon, 11 May 2026 01:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-71-generic
6.8.0-111-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
$12.00
$10.00
RAM (GB)
2
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
50
50
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
2
2
CPU
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
DO-Regular
Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,294.61
3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
4,096.00
16,384.00
BogoMips
4,589.21
7,583.99
Events per Second
408.72
1,497.65
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.98
0.62
Average Latency (ms)
2.44
0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)
30.57
3.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.1
0.75
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
1,633,276.41
5,638,269.82
Mebibytes per second
1,595.00
5,506.12
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.35
0.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Operations per second
1,592,941.48
5,385,367.36
Mebibytes per second
1,555.61
5,259.15
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.53
0.21
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,584.78
3,342.02
Writes per Second
1,056.52
2,228.02
Fsyncs per Second
3,385.97
7,136.24
Read Mebibytes per Second
24.76
52.22
Written Mebibytes per Second
16.51
34.81
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.16
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.31
69.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.51
0.17
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,434.32
1,390.27
Average Latency (ms)
2,473.55
1,401.13
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,489.41
1,404.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,493.86
1,401.61
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,752.00
8,117.00
Queries per second
47,520.00
81,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.23
0.97
Average Latency (ms)
2.1
1.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.76
4.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
1.93
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,930.00
8,086.00
Queries per second
19,300.00
80,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.65
0.69
Average Latency (ms)
5.18
1.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
56.83
3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.98
1.76
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,306.00
3,265.00
Queries per second
13,060.00
32,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
4.6
2.06
Average Latency (ms)
7.65
3.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
28.54
11.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.09
4.1
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,148.00
13,685.00
Queries per second
31,480.00
136,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.72
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
3.17
0.73
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.67
3.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
1.01
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
669,209.00
1,404,967.00
Queries per second
6,692,090.00
14,049,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.02
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
772.1
484.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
136,020.00
194,919.00
Queries per second
1,360,200.00
1,949,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.33
1.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.08
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,617.00
7,178.00
Queries per second
36,170.00
71,780.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.82
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
2.76
1.39
Maximum Latency (ms)
12.27
4.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.82
2.39
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,087.00
7,813.00
Queries per second
30,870.00
78,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.67
0.33
Average Latency (ms)
3.23
1.28
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.52
4.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.18
2.81
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
2,586.00
14,061.00
Queries per second
25,860.00
140,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.8
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
3.86
0.71
Maximum Latency (ms)
45.13
5.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.21
1.06
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,094.00
13,286.00
Queries per second
30,940.00
132,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.83
0.39
Average Latency (ms)
3.23
0.75
Maximum Latency (ms)
35.75
46.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.65
1.03
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
Transactions per second
19,562.00
105,085.00
Queries per second
195,620.00
1,050,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.04
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.51
0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.94
68.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
0.16
Redis
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
39,729.84
50,276.52
PING_MBULK per Second
42,176.30
49,407.12
SET per Second
40,833.00
52,083.34
GET per Second
34,590.11
46,232.08
INCR per Second
35,410.77
48,309.18
LPUSH per Second
39,184.95
48,285.85
RPUSH per Second
36,509.68
47,103.16
LPOP per Second
36,791.76
48,947.62
RPOP per Second
38,834.95
48,804.29
SADD per Second
35,727.05
47,483.38
HSET per Second
35,790.98
43,975.38
SPOP per Second
39,478.88
48,030.74
ZADD per Second
38,850.04
47,214.35
ZPOPMIN per Second
40,338.84
50,864.70
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
17,461.15
28,176.95
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
7,711.29
14,255.17
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
4,860.50
10,387.45
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
4,094.67
8,116.22
MSET (10 keys) per Second
32,041.01
34,602.07
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.83
0.66
PING_MBULK
0.78
0.66
SET
0.82
0.64
GET
0.94
0.72
INCR
0.93
0.69
LPUSH
0.85
0.69
RPUSH
0.91
0.71
LPOP
0.92
0.69
RPOP
0.87
0.70
SADD
0.92
0.71
HSET
0.93
0.77
SPOP
0.84
0.69
ZADD
0.86
0.71
ZPOPMIN
0.82
0.65
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
2.05
1.22
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
4.59
2.50
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
7.19
3.43
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
8.42
4.39
MSET (10 keys)
1.12
1.04
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Both the DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) and Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB) instances show strong Redis performance, with DigitalOcean outperforming slightly in most benchmarks, especially in operations per second and latency metrics. Vultr's CPU benchmarks indicate a slightly higher clock speed and more robust cache size, suggesting it might handle CPU-intensive tasks better. However, DigitalOcean edges out in terms of file I/O performance and MySQL benchmarks, offering lower latency and higher throughput. Given these metrics, DigitalOcean would be ideal for workloads that benefit from better I/O performance and MySQL operations, whereas Vultr may be more suitable for CPU-intensive tasks despite having a similar configuration.
From the friendly human:
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