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 High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 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 High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. 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 or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:52 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	2	2
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	4

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	DO-Regular	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,294.61	2,900.01
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	4,589.21	5,800.02
Events per Second	408.72	4,626.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	2.44	0.22
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.57	3.53
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	0.23

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,633,276.41	7,533,354.82
Mebibytes per second	1,595.00	7,356.79
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,592,941.48	7,542,644.19
Mebibytes per second	1,555.61	7,365.86
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.53	0.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,584.78	5,126.68
Writes per Second	1,056.52	3,417.78
Fsyncs per Second	3,385.97	10,937.41
Read Mebibytes per Second	24.76	80.10
Written Mebibytes per Second	16.51	53.40
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.31	2.38
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.51	0.11

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,434.32	612.54
Average Latency (ms)	2,473.55	642.87
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,489.41	659.60
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,493.86	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,752.00	9,926.00
Queries per second	47,520.00	99,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	0.75
Average Latency (ms)	2.1	1.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.76	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	1.06

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,930.00	9,968.00
Queries per second	19,300.00	99,680.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.65	0.71
Average Latency (ms)	5.18	1
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.83	2.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.98	1.27

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,306.00	4,907.00
Queries per second	13,060.00	49,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.6	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	7.65	2.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.54	12.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	10.09	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,148.00	16,597.00
Queries per second	31,480.00	165,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	3.17	0.6
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.67	2.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	0.72

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	669,209.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	6,692,090.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	772.1	202.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	136,020.00	225,864.00
Queries per second	1,360,200.00	2,258,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.33	0.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,617.00	14,804.00
Queries per second	36,170.00	148,040.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.25
Average Latency (ms)	2.76	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.27	2.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,087.00	14,246.00
Queries per second	30,870.00	142,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.23
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.52	1.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,586.00	15,609.00
Queries per second	25,860.00	156,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.8	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	3.86	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	45.13	1.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.21	0.83

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,094.00	16,050.00
Queries per second	30,940.00	160,500.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.83	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.75	1.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.65	0.78

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,562.00	163,936.00
Queries per second	195,620.00	1,639,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.51	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.94	3.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.08

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	39,729.84	56,850.48
PING_MBULK per Second	42,176.30	58,616.65
SET per Second	40,833.00	58,858.15
GET per Second	34,590.11	58,513.75
INCR per Second	35,410.77	58,038.30
LPUSH per Second	39,184.95	58,582.31
RPUSH per Second	36,509.68	57,971.02
LPOP per Second	36,791.76	58,719.91
RPOP per Second	38,834.95	58,513.75
SADD per Second	35,727.05	58,927.52
HSET per Second	35,790.98	58,962.27
SPOP per Second	39,478.88	58,411.21
ZADD per Second	38,850.04	58,651.02
ZPOPMIN per Second	40,338.84	58,309.04
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	17,461.15	48,685.49
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,711.29	33,134.53
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,860.50	25,322.87
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,094.67	22,820.63
MSET (10 keys) per Second	32,041.01	58,207.21

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.83	0.46
PING_MBULK	0.78	0.44
SET	0.82	0.44
GET	0.94	0.44
INCR	0.93	0.44
LPUSH	0.85	0.44
RPUSH	0.91	0.44
LPOP	0.92	0.44
RPOP	0.87	0.44
SADD	0.92	0.44
HSET	0.93	0.44
SPOP	0.84	0.44
ZADD	0.86	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.82	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	2.05	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.59	0.77
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	7.19	1.01
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	8.42	1.12
MSET (10 keys)	1.12	0.44

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmark results from both DigitalOcean's Regular (2 GB) instance and Vultr's High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) instance, it's clear that the Vultr instance outperforms in terms of raw metrics across the board, including higher RPS for various Redis operations, better CPU event handling per second, and more efficient file I/O operations. The DigitalOcean instance provides more consistent latency for memory operations but lags behind in overall throughput and thread handling efficiency. Given these results, the Vultr instance is better suited for high-performance, CPU-intensive, and I/O-heavy workloads where maximizing throughput and reducing latency are priorities, while the DigitalOcean instance might be more appropriate for scenarios requiring consistent low latency over sustained periods, such as certain memory-intensive applications.

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