DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:52 GMT Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:52 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 $48.00 $15.00
RAM (GB) 8 2
CPU Cores 4 2
Storage (TB) 160 65
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 5 3

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Regular Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS, no TSX)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,494.14 3,792.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,988.28 7,583.99
Events per Second 896.57 1,481.60
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.63
Average Latency (ms) 1.11 0.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.9 1.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.32 0.77

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 4,379,540.09 6,401,389.08
Mebibytes per second 4,276.89 6,251.36
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.18 0.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second 4,212,238.67 6,411,085.35
Mebibytes per second 4,113.51 6,260.83
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.47 0.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second 5,311.94 4,345.71
Writes per Second 3,541.33 2,897.07
Fsyncs per Second 11,343.44 9,273.19
Read Mebibytes per Second 83.00 67.90
Written Mebibytes per Second 55.33 45.27
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.06
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.59 2.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.19 0.17

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 387.37 214.63
Average Latency (ms) 479.16 569.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 548.46 636.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 549.52 634.66

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,420.00 8,015.00
Queries per second 54,200.00 80,150.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.28 0.92
Average Latency (ms) 1.84 1.25
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.54 5.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.52 1.86

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,301.00 8,497.00
Queries per second 43,010.00 84,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.1 0.76
Average Latency (ms) 2.32 1.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.06 3.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 1.55

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,038.00 3,726.00
Queries per second 20,380.00 37,260.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.9 1.78
Average Latency (ms) 4.9 2.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 27.95 5.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.32 3.43

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,949.00 15,028.00
Queries per second 59,490.00 150,280.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.84 0.41
Average Latency (ms) 1.68 0.66
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.06 2.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 0.86

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,317,592.00 1,696,217.00
Queries per second 13,175,920.00 16,962,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 327.97 283.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 138,526.00 201,989.00
Queries per second 1,385,260.00 2,019,890.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.74 0.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.11 0.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,975.00 8,025.00
Queries per second 49,750.00 80,250.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.53 0.35
Average Latency (ms) 2.01 1.24
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.74 3.55
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 2.07

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,697.00 8,336.00
Queries per second 56,970.00 83,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.65 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.75 1.2
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.64 4.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.66 2.22

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,546.00 13,858.00
Queries per second 65,460.00 138,580.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.74 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.53 0.72
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.42 6.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 0.95

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 6,682.00 14,587.00
Queries per second 66,820.00 145,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.69 0.4
Average Latency (ms) 1.49 0.68
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.51 11.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 0.9

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second 50,636.00 129,013.00
Queries per second 506,360.00 1,290,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.03
Average Latency (ms) 0.2 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 44.03 2.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.37 0.09

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 58,207.21 78,247.26
PING_MBULK per Second 56,915.20 74,738.41
SET per Second 56,148.23 77,041.60
GET per Second 58,685.45 83,333.33
INCR per Second 61,312.08 80,971.66
LPUSH per Second 61,162.08 79,113.92
RPUSH per Second 65,832.78 77,160.49
LPOP per Second 56,980.06 81,499.59
RPOP per Second 55,248.62 82,440.23
SADD per Second 58,038.30 80,192.46
HSET per Second 60,350.03 83,612.04
SPOP per Second 65,316.79 85,034.02
ZADD per Second 54,525.63 83,263.95
ZPOPMIN per Second 54,406.96 82,987.55
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 37,850.11 55,555.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,106.10 28,851.70
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 11,355.89 19,391.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,591.41 17,211.71
MSET (10 keys) per Second 56,657.22 80,256.82

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.460.34
PING_MBULK0.470.35
SET0.510.34
GET0.470.32
INCR0.450.32
LPUSH0.480.34
RPUSH0.430.34
LPOP0.510.32
RPOP0.500.32
SADD0.450.32
HSET0.480.31
SPOP0.450.30
ZADD0.500.31
ZPOPMIN0.500.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.850.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.611.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.621.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.231.84
MSET (10 keys)0.550.38

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Both instances show strong performance in different areas; DigitalOcean's Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) excels in memory operations and bulk data processing tasks, demonstrating high throughput rates for read and write operations, and substantial request per second rates for Redis commands, making it suitable for CPU-intensive workloads and tasks requiring significant memory usage. On the other hand, Vultr's Cloud Compute (2 GB, 2 Cores) shines in terms of high request rates per second for Redis commands, indicating better performance in scenarios where low latency and high request handling are crucial, though it has lower throughput in memory and I/O operations. For users needing more RAM and CPU power for complex processing tasks, DigitalOcean would be preferable, whereas Vultr would better suit applications demanding high concurrency and low latency responses.

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