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_INLINE
0.46
0.34
PING_MBULK
0.47
0.35
SET
0.51
0.34
GET
0.47
0.32
INCR
0.45
0.32
LPUSH
0.48
0.34
RPUSH
0.43
0.34
LPOP
0.51
0.32
RPOP
0.50
0.32
SADD
0.45
0.32
HSET
0.48
0.31
SPOP
0.45
0.30
ZADD
0.50
0.31
ZPOPMIN
0.50
0.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.85
0.54
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.61
1.11
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.62
1.62
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.23
1.84
MSET (10 keys)
0.55
0.38
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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