How much does DigitalOcean Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores) is $24.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe of storage, and 3 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of DigitalOcean Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)?

DigitalOcean Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores) has 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD of storage, and 4 TB of monthly transfer for $24.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Regular 4 GB, 2 Cores ($24/mo) vs. Vultr High Frequency Intel 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running 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 (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 30 May 2026 15:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 GMT
Linux Distro	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version	6.8.0-71-generic	6.8.0-117-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	$24.00	$18.00
RAM (GB)	4	2
CPU Cores	2	2
Storage (TB)	80	80
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	4	3

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	GenuineIntel
Model Name	DO-Regular	Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,494.15	3,791.98
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	16,384.00
BogoMips	4,988.29	7,583.95
Events per Second	871.36	1,552.05
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.62
Average Latency (ms)	1.15	0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.11	4.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.34	0.69

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,167,908.44	7,875,668.83
Mebibytes per second	4,070.22	7,691.08
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.26	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,455,346.90	7,729,812.11
Mebibytes per second	4,350.92	7,548.64
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.26	0.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	2,278.19	4,671.85
Writes per Second	1,518.80	3,114.56
Fsyncs per Second	4,871.44	9,976.90
Read Mebibytes per Second	35.60	73.00
Written Mebibytes per Second	23.73	48.67
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.11	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	12.59	2.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.37	0.17

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	1,307.95	543.27
Average Latency (ms)	1,349.23	554.74
Maximum Latency (ms)	1,391.63	563.70
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1,401.61	559.50

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,297.00	10,621.00
Queries per second	42,970.00	106,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.39	0.86
Average Latency (ms)	2.32	0.94
Maximum Latency (ms)	5.78	2.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.97	1.03

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	3,514.00	10,229.00
Queries per second	35,140.00	102,290.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.29	0.64
Average Latency (ms)	2.84	0.98
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.78	2.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	4.1	1.23

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,947.00	5,072.00
Queries per second	19,470.00	50,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.91	1.59
Average Latency (ms)	5.13	1.97
Maximum Latency (ms)	13.08	3.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	6.67	2.39

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,796.00	16,038.00
Queries per second	67,960.00	160,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.65	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.47	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.09	13.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.18	0.8

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,055,467.00	2,424,342.00
Queries per second	10,554,670.00	24,243,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	573.76	205.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	123,372.00	241,313.00
Queries per second	1,233,720.00	2,413,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.08	0.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.53	0.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.12	0.05

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,146.00	12,080.00
Queries per second	41,460.00	120,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.81	0.21
Average Latency (ms)	2.41	0.83
Maximum Latency (ms)	21.02	3.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.36	1.04

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	4,644.00	10,527.00
Queries per second	46,440.00	105,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.75	0.16
Average Latency (ms)	2.15	0.95
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.73	3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	3.19	1.23

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,918.00	17,123.00
Queries per second	59,180.00	171,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.61	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.69	0.58
Maximum Latency (ms)	17.54	2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	0.78

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,844.00	16,979.00
Queries per second	68,440.00	169,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.7	0.38
Average Latency (ms)	1.46	0.59
Maximum Latency (ms)	11.43	4.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.11	0.8

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	55,206.00	156,424.00
Queries per second	552,060.00	1,564,240.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.03
Average Latency (ms)	0.18	0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.66	4.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.18	0.07

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	50,607.29	88,652.48
PING_MBULK per Second	44,169.61	89,605.73
SET per Second	44,444.45	90,171.33
GET per Second	47,619.05	90,579.71
INCR per Second	48,638.13	90,744.10
LPUSH per Second	49,603.17	90,497.73
RPUSH per Second	47,664.44	90,415.91
LPOP per Second	50,942.43	90,909.09
RPOP per Second	48,216.01	90,661.83
SADD per Second	48,379.30	90,252.70
HSET per Second	48,053.82	90,415.91
SPOP per Second	50,301.81	89,928.05
ZADD per Second	54,495.91	90,415.91
ZPOPMIN per Second	50,864.70	90,009.01
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	33,523.30	66,533.60
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	16,619.58	36,179.45
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	10,716.96	26,239.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	9,849.31	22,547.91
MSET (10 keys) per Second	46,189.38	88,105.73

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (4 GB, 2 Cores)	Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.55	0.30
PING_MBULK	0.59	0.29
SET	0.60	0.29
GET	0.56	0.29
INCR	0.55	0.28
LPUSH	0.54	0.29
RPUSH	0.56	0.29
LPOP	0.53	0.28
RPOP	0.56	0.28
SADD	0.55	0.29
HSET	0.57	0.29
SPOP	0.53	0.29
ZADD	0.50	0.29
ZPOPMIN	0.52	0.29
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	1.04	0.39
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.78	0.71
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.92	0.97
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	3.43	1.14
MSET (10 keys)	0.67	0.30

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Both DigitalOcean's Regular instance and Vultr's High Frequency Intel instance showcase strong performance metrics, though they cater to different use cases. DigitalOcean's instance provides slightly better Redis throughput and lower latency for most Redis operations, along with robust CPU performance, making it a good choice for CPU-intensive workloads. It also has excellent file I/O and memory operations. However, Vultr's High Frequency Intel instance shows superior Redis rps, better CPU throughput, and faster MySQL operations, which makes it highly suited for applications requiring high-speed Redis interaction and more aggressive CPU-bound tasks. The NVMe storage of Vultr could also give it an edge in I/O-heavy scenarios. Ultimately, the choice between these instances will depend on whether your priority is on CPU-intensive tasks, general-purpose performance, or high-speed Redis operations.

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