DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (1 GB)

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Same showdown, different day. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT Sun, 10 May 2026 21:00:52 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 $6.00
RAM (GB) 2 1
CPU Cores 1 1
Storage (TB) 50 25
Storage Type SSD NVMe
Transfer (TB) 2 2

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Regular AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,294.61 2,899.97
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 1,024.00
BogoMips 4,589.21 5,799.93
Events per Second 408.72 4,622.39
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.98 0.2
Average Latency (ms) 2.44 0.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 30.57 1.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.1 0.23

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 1,633,276.41 7,509,543.91
Mebibytes per second 1,595.00 7,333.54
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.35 4.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Operations per second 1,592,941.48 7,535,339.68
Mebibytes per second 1,555.61 7,358.73
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.53 0.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,584.78 4,902.51
Writes per Second 1,056.52 3,268.27
Fsyncs per Second 3,385.97 10,464.22
Read Mebibytes per Second 24.76 76.60
Written Mebibytes per Second 16.51 51.07
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.16 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 20.31 1.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.51 0.11

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,434.32 1,231.80
Average Latency (ms) 2,473.55 1,235.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,489.41 1,242.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,493.86 1,235.62

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,752.00 13,277.00
Queries per second 47,520.00 132,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 0.69
Average Latency (ms) 2.1 0.75
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.76 3.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.66 0.8

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,930.00 10,040.00
Queries per second 19,300.00 100,400.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.65 0.67
Average Latency (ms) 5.18 0.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 56.83 4.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.98 1.39

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,306.00 5,116.00
Queries per second 13,060.00 51,160.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 4.6 1.57
Average Latency (ms) 7.65 1.95
Maximum Latency (ms) 28.54 6.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 10.09 2.39

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,148.00 17,372.00
Queries per second 31,480.00 173,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.72 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 3.17 0.57
Maximum Latency (ms) 32.67 2.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.41 0.7

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 669,209.00 2,569,967.00
Queries per second 6,692,090.00 25,699,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.02 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 772.1 244.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 136,020.00 350,666.00
Queries per second 1,360,200.00 3,506,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.33 3.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,617.00 14,543.00
Queries per second 36,170.00 145,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.82 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 2.76 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.27 3.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 0.87

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,087.00 14,708.00
Queries per second 30,870.00 147,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.24
Average Latency (ms) 3.23 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.52 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.18 0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,586.00 14,482.00
Queries per second 25,860.00 144,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.8 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 3.86 0.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 45.13 12.9
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.21 1.06

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,094.00 16,290.00
Queries per second 30,940.00 162,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.83 0.43
Average Latency (ms) 3.23 0.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 35.75 3.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.65 0.87

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
Transactions per second 19,562.00 221,408.00
Queries per second 195,620.00 2,214,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.02
Average Latency (ms) 0.51 0.04
Maximum Latency (ms) 32.94 4.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 0.07

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 39,729.84 43,233.89
PING_MBULK per Second 42,176.30 43,936.73
SET per Second 40,833.00 43,459.36
GET per Second 34,590.11 43,365.13
INCR per Second 35,410.77 43,516.10
LPUSH per Second 39,184.95 43,402.78
RPUSH per Second 36,509.68 43,402.78
LPOP per Second 36,791.76 43,047.79
RPOP per Second 38,834.95 43,233.89
SADD per Second 35,727.05 43,687.20
HSET per Second 35,790.98 43,290.04
SPOP per Second 39,478.88 38,684.72
ZADD per Second 38,850.04 42,992.26
ZPOPMIN per Second 40,338.84 43,706.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 17,461.15 33,670.04
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 7,711.29 21,743.86
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 4,860.50 16,334.53
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 4,094.67 14,539.11
MSET (10 keys) per Second 32,041.01 41,476.57

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.830.77
PING_MBULK0.780.76
SET0.820.77
GET0.940.77
INCR0.930.77
LPUSH0.850.78
RPUSH0.910.77
LPOP0.920.78
RPOP0.870.78
SADD0.920.77
HSET0.930.77
SPOP0.840.89
ZADD0.860.77
ZPOPMIN0.820.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)2.050.99
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)4.591.50
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)7.192.05
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)8.422.30
MSET (10 keys)1.120.81

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmarks for both DigitalOcean's Regular (2 GB) and Vultr's High Performance AMD (1 GB) instances, it's clear that both offer strong performance, but excel in different areas. DigitalOcean's instance demonstrates high Redis throughput and latency, especially in commands like LRANGE, indicating its strength in memory-intensive tasks. Vultr's AMD EPYC-based instance, however, surpasses DigitalOcean in overall CPU performance, showing superior event processing rates and lower latency in CPU benchmarks. File I/O and memory operations also favor Vultr with higher throughput and faster read/write operations. Considering these metrics, DigitalOcean would be ideal for memory-intensive applications like Redis, whereas Vultr would better suit CPU-heavy workloads and scenarios requiring fast file I/O operations.

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