How much does DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) cost per month?

DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) is $48.00/mo and includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 5 TB of transfer.

How much does Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) cost per month?

Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores) is $18.00/mo and includes 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe of storage, and 4 TB of transfer.

What are the specs of DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)?

DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) has 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD of storage, and 5 TB of monthly transfer for $48.00/mo.

DigitalOcean Regular 8 GB, 4 Cores ($48/mo) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD 2 GB, 2 Cores ($18/mo) Benchmarks

My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr and did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.

Overview

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Last Benchmarked	Sat, 30 May 2026 08:00:52 GMT	Sun, 31 May 2026 07:00:52 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	$18.00
RAM (GB)	8	2
CPU Cores	4	2
Storage (TB)	160	60
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe
Transfer (TB)	5	4

CPU

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Vendor	GenuineIntel	AuthenticAMD
Model Name	DO-Regular	AMD EPYC-Genoa Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)	2,494.14	2,899.99
CPU Cache Size (KB)	4,096.00	1,024.00
BogoMips	4,988.28	5,799.98
Events per Second	938.83	4,648.14
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.91	0.2
Average Latency (ms)	1.06	0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.5	1.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.3	0.23

Memory Read

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,460,139.75	7,548,502.85
Mebibytes per second	4,355.61	7,371.58
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.18	0.08
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

Memory Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Operations per second	4,541,000.65	7,544,807.09
Mebibytes per second	4,434.57	7,367.98
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	0.14	0.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

File I/O

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Reads per Second	5,970.38	5,114.79
Writes per Second	3,980.26	3,409.86
Fsyncs per Second	12,748.01	10,914.44
Read Mebibytes per Second	93.29	79.92
Written Mebibytes per Second	62.19	53.28
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.04	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	7.01	3.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.17	0.12

Mutex

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Minimum Latency (ms)	529.88	574.03
Average Latency (ms)	651.33	637.47
Maximum Latency (ms)	751.48	663.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	746.32	657.93

MySQL Read-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,888.00	9,622.00
Queries per second	58,880.00	96,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.23	0.73
Average Latency (ms)	1.7	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.11	2.22
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.22	1.12

MySQL Write-only

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,011.00	9,585.00
Queries per second	50,110.00	95,850.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	1.07	0.8
Average Latency (ms)	1.99	1.04
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.81	2.18
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	1.32

MySQL Read/Write

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	2,283.00	4,686.00
Queries per second	22,830.00	46,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	2.84	1.57
Average Latency (ms)	4.37	2.13
Maximum Latency (ms)	22.34	4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	5.57	2.52

MySQL INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,573.00	15,965.00
Queries per second	75,730.00	159,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.59	0.45
Average Latency (ms)	1.32	0.62
Maximum Latency (ms)	6.62	2.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.93	0.74

MySQL Bulk INSERT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	1,317,592.00	3,065,092.00
Queries per second	13,175,920.00	30,650,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0	0
Average Latency (ms)	0.01	0
Maximum Latency (ms)	433.34	208.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0	0

MySQL SELECT

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	164,308.00	217,035.00
Queries per second	1,643,080.00	2,170,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.06	0.05
Maximum Latency (ms)	1.3	0.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	0.09	0.06

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,923.00	14,818.00
Queries per second	59,230.00	148,180.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.55	0.24
Average Latency (ms)	1.69	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	4.92	1.94
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.43	0.86

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	5,984.00	14,341.00
Queries per second	59,840.00	143,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.57	0.27
Average Latency (ms)	1.67	0.7
Maximum Latency (ms)	3.94	1.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.71	0.89

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	6,760.00	14,864.00
Queries per second	67,600.00	148,640.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.74	0.47
Average Latency (ms)	1.48	0.67
Maximum Latency (ms)	8.37	2.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	2.14	0.87

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	7,480.00	15,284.00
Queries per second	74,800.00	152,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.63	0.46
Average Latency (ms)	1.34	0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)	10.16	1.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.93	0.83

MySQL DELETE

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
Transactions per second	66,536.00	151,536.00
Queries per second	665,360.00	1,515,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)	0.04	0.02
Average Latency (ms)	0.15	0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)	9.27	4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms)	1.01	0.08

Redis

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE per Second	54,141.85	55,991.04
PING_MBULK per Second	67,114.09	57,903.88
SET per Second	62,972.29	57,703.40
GET per Second	63,979.53	57,703.40
INCR per Second	64,474.53	57,372.34
LPUSH per Second	61,996.28	57,836.90
RPUSH per Second	60,753.34	58,173.36
LPOP per Second	65,616.80	58,343.06
RPOP per Second	64,061.50	58,343.06
SADD per Second	63,091.48	58,241.12
HSET per Second	65,274.15	58,858.15
SPOP per Second	64,516.13	58,892.82
ZADD per Second	62,578.22	57,504.31
ZPOPMIN per Second	62,111.80	57,870.37
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second	44,642.86	49,236.83
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second	18,018.02	34,818.94
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second	14,365.75	26,766.60
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second	10,829.54	24,207.21
MSET (10 keys) per Second	62,266.50	58,548.01

Redis Average Latency (ms)

	DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores)	Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)
PING_INLINE	0.49	0.48
PING_MBULK	0.39	0.44
SET	0.43	0.45
GET	0.42	0.45
INCR	0.42	0.45
LPUSH	0.43	0.44
RPUSH	0.43	0.44
LPOP	0.42	0.44
RPOP	0.44	0.44
SADD	0.41	0.44
HSET	0.40	0.44
SPOP	0.41	0.44
ZADD	0.47	0.45
ZPOPMIN	0.43	0.44
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)	0.66	0.53
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)	1.53	0.74
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)	2.18	0.95
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)	2.71	1.05
MSET (10 keys)	0.62	0.44

Conclusion

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Comparing the benchmarks, the DigitalOcean instance (8 GB, 4 Cores) demonstrates superior performance in both CPU and memory operations, with higher rates of RPS and lower average latencies across various Redis commands, CPU events per second, and memory read/write operations, indicating it excels in handling more resource-intensive tasks. The Vultr instance (2 GB, 2 Cores) performs admirably for lower memory and CPU requirements, showing competitive Redis throughput and acceptable MySQL performance, but falls behind in more demanding scenarios like high memory usage or CPU-intensive tasks, suggesting it's more suitable for less demanding applications. Overall, the DigitalOcean instance is better suited for CPU-heavy and memory-intensive workloads, whereas the Vultr instance offers a cost-effective alternative for lighter workloads.

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DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Vultr High Performance AMD (2 GB, 2 Cores)