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 Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe of storage, and 5 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 Intel 4 GB, 2 Cores ($24/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Tue, 12 May 2026 23:00:52 GMT	Sun, 10 May 2026 18:00:52 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	$24.00
RAM (GB)	2	4
CPU Cores	1	2
Storage (TB)	50	100
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	2	5

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	Intel Xeon Processor (Cascadelake)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,294.61	2,893.17
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,589.21	5,786.33
Events per Second	408.72	1,132.36
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.98	0.83
Average Latency (ms)	2.44	0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)	30.57	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	1.04

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,633,276.41	5,331,977.06
Mebibytes per second	1,595.00	5,207.01
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.35	0.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	1,592,941.48	5,164,671.77
Mebibytes per second	1,555.61	5,043.62
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.53	0.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	1,584.78	6,043.23
Writes per Second	1,056.52	4,028.82
Fsyncs per Second	3,385.97	12,894.52
Read Mebibytes per Second	24.76	94.43
Written Mebibytes per Second	16.51	62.95
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.16	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	20.31	3.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.51	0.14

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	2,434.32	322.02
Average Latency (ms)	2,473.55	806.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	2,489.41	874.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2,493.86	877.61

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,752.00	6,312.00
Queries per second	47,520.00	63,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	1.13
Average Latency (ms)	2.1	1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.76	10.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.66	2.22

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,930.00	7,529.00
Queries per second	19,300.00	75,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.65	0.87
Average Latency (ms)	5.18	1.33
Maximum Latency (ms)	56.83	4.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	7.98	1.89

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,306.00	2,596.00
Queries per second	13,060.00	25,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	4.6	2.37
Average Latency (ms)	7.65	3.85
Maximum Latency (ms)	28.54	18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	10.09	5.37

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,148.00	10,595.00
Queries per second	31,480.00	105,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.72	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	3.17	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.67	6.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.41	1.34

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	669,209.00	1,315,784.00
Queries per second	6,692,090.00	13,157,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.02	0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)	772.1	385.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	136,020.00	172,759.00
Queries per second	1,360,200.00	1,727,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.07	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.33	1.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.11	0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,617.00	5,975.00
Queries per second	36,170.00	59,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.82	0.52
Average Latency (ms)	2.76	1.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.27	7.14
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.82	2.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,087.00	6,837.00
Queries per second	30,870.00	68,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.67	0.52
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	1.46
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.52	3.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.18	2.07

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,586.00	9,797.00
Queries per second	25,860.00	97,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.8	0.48
Average Latency (ms)	3.86	1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)	45.13	6.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.21	1.55

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,094.00	12,322.00
Queries per second	30,940.00	123,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.83	0.43
Average Latency (ms)	3.23	0.81
Maximum Latency (ms)	35.75	3.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.65	1.12

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	19,562.00	97,102.00
Queries per second	195,620.00	971,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.04
Average Latency (ms)	0.51	0.1
Maximum Latency (ms)	32.94	17.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.02	0.17

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	39,729.84	61,500.61
PING_MBULK per Second	42,176.30	56,274.62
SET per Second	40,833.00	57,736.72
GET per Second	34,590.11	59,031.88
INCR per Second	35,410.77	58,997.05
LPUSH per Second	39,184.95	58,038.30
RPUSH per Second	36,509.68	61,349.70
LPOP per Second	36,791.76	61,842.92
RPOP per Second	38,834.95	58,445.36
SADD per Second	35,727.05	52,219.32
HSET per Second	35,790.98	53,050.40
SPOP per Second	39,478.88	61,199.51
ZADD per Second	38,850.04	59,136.61
ZPOPMIN per Second	40,338.84	59,916.12
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	17,461.15	45,024.77
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	7,711.29	24,295.43
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	4,860.50	16,326.53
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	4,094.67	13,991.88
MSET (10 keys) per Second	32,041.01	58,275.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB)	Vultr – High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.83	0.43
PING_MBULK	0.78	0.46
SET	0.82	0.45
GET	0.94	0.44
INCR	0.93	0.44
LPUSH	0.85	0.45
RPUSH	0.91	0.43
LPOP	0.92	0.43
RPOP	0.87	0.46
SADD	0.92	0.52
HSET	0.93	0.49
SPOP	0.84	0.43
ZADD	0.86	0.46
ZPOPMIN	0.82	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	2.05	0.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	4.59	1.19
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	7.19	1.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	8.42	2.23
MSET (10 keys)	1.12	0.51

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After analyzing the benchmarks for both DigitalOcean's Regular (2 GB) and Vultr's High Performance Intel (4 GB, 2 Cores) instances, it's evident that Vultr's high-performance instance excels in most metrics across CPU, memory, I/O, and threading. While the DigitalOcean instance performs adequately with impressive Redis throughput and slightly better MySQL write operations, Vultr's superior CPU performance, higher memory throughput, and more responsive I/O operations make it a better choice for workloads that demand higher multithreading capabilities, faster data access, or greater computational power. For developers needing more powerful CPUs and higher RAM for demanding applications like database management, data processing, or web hosting, the Vultr instance would be the recommended option. On the other hand, for less resource-intensive tasks or where the cost and slightly lower performance of DigitalOcean's instance are acceptable, it could still be a viable choice.

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