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 Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $20.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 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. Vultr Cloud Compute 4 GB, 2 Cores ($20/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT	Mon, 11 May 2026 14:00:52 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	$20.00
RAM (GB)	2	4
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	80
Storage Type	SSD	SSD
Transfer (TB)	2	3

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,294.61	3,792.06
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,589.21	7,584.11
Events per Second	408.72	1,499.48
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	2.44	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.57	2.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	0.74

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,633,276.41	6,934,927.69
Mebibytes per second	1,595.00	6,772.39
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	0.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,592,941.48	6,985,095.21
Mebibytes per second	1,555.61	6,821.38
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.53	0.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,584.78	7,963.30
Writes per Second	1,056.52	5,308.87
Fsyncs per Second	3,385.97	16,991.77
Read Mebibytes per Second	24.76	124.43
Written Mebibytes per Second	16.51	82.95
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.31	4.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.51	0.12

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,434.32	584.40
Average Latency (ms)	2,473.55	590.17
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,489.41	596.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,493.86	601.29

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,752.00	9,520.00
Queries per second	47,520.00	95,200.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	0.89
Average Latency (ms)	2.1	1.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.76	2.89
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	1.34

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,930.00	9,609.00
Queries per second	19,300.00	96,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.65	0.67
Average Latency (ms)	5.18	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.83	3.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.98	1.34

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,306.00	4,403.00
Queries per second	13,060.00	44,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.6	1.68
Average Latency (ms)	7.65	2.27
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.54	16.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	10.09	2.86

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,148.00	16,748.00
Queries per second	31,480.00	167,480.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	3.17	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.67	2.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	0.78

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	669,209.00	2,103,967.00
Queries per second	6,692,090.00	21,039,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	772.1	219.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	136,020.00	213,392.00
Queries per second	1,360,200.00	2,133,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.33	0.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,617.00	9,584.00
Queries per second	36,170.00	95,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.32
Average Latency (ms)	2.76	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.27	2.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	1.73

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,087.00	8,392.00
Queries per second	30,870.00	83,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.42
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	1.19
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.52	5.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	2.48

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,586.00	15,380.00
Queries per second	25,860.00	153,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.8	0.4
Average Latency (ms)	3.86	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	45.13	2.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.21	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,094.00	15,844.00
Queries per second	30,940.00	158,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.83	0.39
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	0.63
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.75	2.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.65	0.87

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,562.00	145,838.00
Queries per second	195,620.00	1,458,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.51	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.94	1.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.08

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	39,729.84	83,402.84
PING_MBULK per Second	42,176.30	83,612.04
SET per Second	40,833.00	83,752.09
GET per Second	34,590.11	83,472.46
INCR per Second	35,410.77	81,300.81
LPUSH per Second	39,184.95	84,602.37
RPUSH per Second	36,509.68	82,508.25
LPOP per Second	36,791.76	85,910.65
RPOP per Second	38,834.95	84,317.03
SADD per Second	35,727.05	85,397.09
HSET per Second	35,790.98	83,056.48
SPOP per Second	39,478.88	81,300.81
ZADD per Second	38,850.04	85,984.52
ZPOPMIN per Second	40,338.84	86,505.19
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	17,461.15	52,438.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,711.29	26,954.18
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,860.50	19,466.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,094.67	16,923.34
MSET (10 keys) per Second	32,041.01	83,542.19

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.83	0.31
PING_MBULK	0.78	0.31
SET	0.82	0.31
GET	0.94	0.31
INCR	0.93	0.32
LPUSH	0.85	0.31
RPUSH	0.91	0.31
LPOP	0.92	0.31
RPOP	0.87	0.32
SADD	0.92	0.30
HSET	0.93	0.32
SPOP	0.84	0.32
ZADD	0.86	0.30
ZPOPMIN	0.82	0.30
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	2.05	0.51
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.59	1.05
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	7.19	1.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	8.42	1.60
MSET (10 keys)	1.12	0.32

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Upon analyzing the benchmark performance of the DigitalOcean and Vultr instances, it is clear that Vultr's Cloud Compute instance (2 cores, 4GB RAM) outperforms DigitalOcean's Regular instance (1 core, 2GB RAM) in nearly all metrics, particularly in Redis benchmarks where it delivers significantly higher request rates per second and lower latencies across various operations. The Vultr instance also shows superior CPU handling and file I/O performance, reflecting its more powerful hardware configuration. However, DigitalOcean's instance has more balanced memory read and write operations, lower thread latencies, and is more cost-effective. For workloads heavily dependent on CPU multi-threading and I/O operations, the Vultr instance is superior, while for applications where balanced resource utilization and lower cost are priorities, the DigitalOcean instance may be more suitable.

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DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (4 GB, 2 Cores)