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 (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 180 GB NVMe of storage, and 6 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 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) Benchmarks

Fresh benchmarks coming at ya. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT	Tue, 12 May 2026 03:00:52 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	$48.00
RAM (GB)	2	8
CPU Cores	1	4
Storage (TB)	50	180
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	6

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 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	5,800.01
Events per Second	408.72	4,660.86
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	2.44	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.57	0.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	0.22

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	1,633,276.41	7,566,222.56
Mebibytes per second	1,595.00	7,388.89
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	0.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second	1,592,941.48	7,552,490.67
Mebibytes per second	1,555.61	7,375.48
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 (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,584.78	8,517.51
Writes per Second	1,056.52	5,678.37
Fsyncs per Second	3,385.97	18,177.50
Read Mebibytes per Second	24.76	133.09
Written Mebibytes per Second	16.51	88.72
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.03
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.31	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.51	0.1

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,434.32	165.23
Average Latency (ms)	2,473.55	285.68
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,489.41	342.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,493.86	344.08

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,752.00	10,922.00
Queries per second	47,520.00	109,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	0.75
Average Latency (ms)	2.1	0.92
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.76	1.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,930.00	9,482.00
Queries per second	19,300.00	94,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.65	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	5.18	1.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.83	2.45
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.98	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,306.00	4,832.00
Queries per second	13,060.00	48,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.6	1.55
Average Latency (ms)	7.65	2.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.54	3.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	10.09	2.35

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,148.00	15,179.00
Queries per second	31,480.00	151,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	3.17	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.67	13.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	0.81

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	669,209.00	3,006,842.00
Queries per second	6,692,090.00	30,068,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	772.1	190.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	136,020.00	235,314.00
Queries per second	1,360,200.00	2,353,140.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.33	0.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,617.00	15,165.00
Queries per second	36,170.00	151,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	2.76	0.66
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.27	2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	0.84

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,087.00	14,400.00
Queries per second	30,870.00	144,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.17
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.52	1.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	0.9

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,586.00	14,535.00
Queries per second	25,860.00	145,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.8	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	3.86	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	45.13	2.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.21	0.86

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,094.00	14,543.00
Queries per second	30,940.00	145,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.83	0.44
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	0.69
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.75	1.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.65	0.84

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,562.00	154,046.00
Queries per second	195,620.00	1,540,460.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.51	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.94	3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.08

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	39,729.84	62,695.92
PING_MBULK per Second	42,176.30	65,274.15
SET per Second	40,833.00	58,343.06
GET per Second	34,590.11	58,616.65
INCR per Second	35,410.77	57,803.47
LPUSH per Second	39,184.95	57,636.89
RPUSH per Second	36,509.68	58,616.65
LPOP per Second	36,791.76	57,504.31
RPOP per Second	38,834.95	57,670.13
SADD per Second	35,727.05	58,173.36
HSET per Second	35,790.98	58,513.75
SPOP per Second	39,478.88	58,445.36
ZADD per Second	38,850.04	58,513.75
ZPOPMIN per Second	40,338.84	57,438.25
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	17,461.15	48,123.20
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,711.29	33,806.62
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,860.50	26,109.66
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,094.67	23,369.95
MSET (10 keys) per Second	32,041.01	59,488.40

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.83	0.41
PING_MBULK	0.78	0.39
SET	0.82	0.44
GET	0.94	0.44
INCR	0.93	0.45
LPUSH	0.85	0.45
RPUSH	0.91	0.44
LPOP	0.92	0.45
RPOP	0.87	0.45
SADD	0.92	0.44
HSET	0.93	0.44
SPOP	0.84	0.44
ZADD	0.86	0.44
ZPOPMIN	0.82	0.45
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	2.05	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.59	0.76
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	7.19	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	8.42	1.08
MSET (10 keys)	1.12	0.43

Conclusion

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When comparing the DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) instance and the Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance, it is evident that the Vultr instance offers significantly better performance across a wide range of benchmarks, thanks to its more powerful AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor and higher memory capacity. The Vultr instance benchmarks reveal higher rates of operations per second for Redis commands, superior CPU performance with lower latencies, and better file I/O throughput. However, the DigitalOcean instance shows competitive memory performance and lower latencies in specific memory operations. Given these results, the Vultr instance is ideal for CPU-intensive and memory-heavy workloads that benefit from higher core counts and larger RAM, whereas the DigitalOcean instance might be more suitable for less demanding applications requiring balanced performance and cost efficiency.

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DigitalOcean Regular (2 GB) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (8 GB, 4 Cores)