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

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Last Benchmarked Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:52 GMT Sat, 23 May 2026 11:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-71-generic 6.8.0-117-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 $48.00 $40.00
RAM (GB) 8 8
CPU Cores 4 4
Storage (TB) 160 160
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 5 4

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name DO-Regular Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,494.14 2,593.90
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 16,384.00
BogoMips 4,988.27 5,187.80
Events per Second 886.00 1,100.82
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.88
Average Latency (ms) 1.13 0.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.22 1.56
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.32 0.97

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second 4,099,212.85 3,685,781.23
Mebibytes per second 4,003.14 3,599.40
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.61 1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Operations per second 4,159,010.59 3,590,629.63
Mebibytes per second 4,061.53 3,506.47
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.62 1.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Reads per Second 4,785.08 4,999.39
Writes per Second 3,189.98 3,332.93
Fsyncs per Second 10,220.74 10,670.47
Read Mebibytes per Second 74.77 78.12
Written Mebibytes per Second 49.84 52.08
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.05 0.05
Maximum Latency (ms) 40.71 37.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.2 0.18

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms) 633.43 369.37
Average Latency (ms) 660.16 416.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 686.89 441.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 682.06 442.73

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,403.00 5,144.00
Queries per second 54,030.00 51,440.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.3 1.72
Average Latency (ms) 1.85 1.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.35 7.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 2.35

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 2,567.00 5,108.00
Queries per second 25,670.00 51,080.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.28 1.15
Average Latency (ms) 3.89 1.96
Maximum Latency (ms) 56.51 12.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 7.84 2.71

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,794.00 2,247.00
Queries per second 17,940.00 22,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.8 3.08
Average Latency (ms) 5.57 4.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 47.21 29.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 8.9 5.28

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 5,293.00 7,630.00
Queries per second 52,930.00 76,300.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.78 0.71
Average Latency (ms) 1.88 1.31
Maximum Latency (ms) 14.02 29.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 1.55

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 1,201,092.00 898,571.00
Queries per second 12,010,920.00 8,985,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 463.98 505.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 145,945.00 149,465.00
Queries per second 1,459,450.00 1,494,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.07 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.2 1.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.1 0.09

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,435.00 4,249.00
Queries per second 44,350.00 42,490.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 0.83
Average Latency (ms) 2.25 2.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 30.49 6.6
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 3.02

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,489.00 2,637.00
Queries per second 44,890.00 26,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.64 0.94
Average Latency (ms) 2.22 3.79
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.46 6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 5.09

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 4,815.00 7,166.00
Queries per second 48,150.00 71,660.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.76 0.7
Average Latency (ms) 2.07 1.39
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.88 28.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.49 1.79

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 3,741.00 7,661.00
Queries per second 37,410.00 76,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.87 0.7
Average Latency (ms) 2.67 1.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 24.91 33.97
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.28 1.58

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
Transactions per second 50,225.00 69,690.00
Queries per second 502,250.00 696,900.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.2 0.14
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.78 27.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.34 0.87

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second 48,076.93 54,436.58
PING_MBULK per Second 41,649.31 48,828.12
SET per Second 51,098.62 51,572.98
GET per Second 48,638.13 48,239.27
INCR per Second 52,083.34 52,328.62
LPUSH per Second 57,372.34 45,454.54
RPUSH per Second 51,308.36 49,751.24
LPOP per Second 51,894.13 53,390.28
RPOP per Second 49,578.58 53,648.07
SADD per Second 48,590.86 48,285.85
HSET per Second 53,333.33 51,493.30
SPOP per Second 49,726.51 52,910.05
ZADD per Second 49,529.47 53,504.55
ZPOPMIN per Second 47,755.49 53,590.57
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 28,360.75 28,645.09
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 14,110.34 13,131.98
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 10,427.53 8,529.51
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 9,138.26 7,479.99
MSET (10 keys) per Second 46,253.47 49,212.60

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Vultr – Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores)
PING_INLINE0.540.47
PING_MBULK0.680.53
SET0.530.50
GET0.550.54
INCR0.510.49
LPUSH0.470.58
RPUSH0.530.52
LPOP0.530.49
RPOP0.560.48
SADD0.550.54
HSET0.520.53
SPOP0.540.49
ZADD0.560.48
ZPOPMIN0.570.48
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.150.91
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.271.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.043.00
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)3.653.43
MSET (10 keys)0.700.77

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

After comparing the benchmarks of DigitalOcean's Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance and Vultr's Cloud Compute (8 GB, 4 Cores) instance, both providers show strong performance, but they have different strengths. DigitalOcean excels in Redis operations, showing notably higher request per second (rps) and lower latencies across most benchmarks, particularly for complex commands like LRANGE. Vultr's instance, however, performs better in raw CPU operations and provides slightly higher throughput in memory operations and file I/O. Given these results, DigitalOcean is better suited for applications heavily reliant on Redis operations, while Vultr would be more advantageous for workloads emphasizing CPU efficiency and high file I/O throughput.

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