VPS Leaderboard
Best Disk I/O
Ranked by sysbench fileio throughput (random read + write combined). Higher is faster.
| # | Instance | MiB/s | $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB) | 145 MiB/s | $12 |
| 🥈 | Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) | 128 MiB/s | $6 |
| 🥉 | Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) | 117 MiB/s | $12 |
| 4 | DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) | 114 MiB/s | $16 |
| 5 | Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) | 111 MiB/s | $6 |
| 6 | Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) | 106 MiB/s | $6 |
| 7 | Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) | 104 MiB/s | $10 |
| 8 | UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | 102 MiB/s | $7 |
| 9 | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | 102 MiB/s | $12 |
| 10 | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | 98 MiB/s | $13 |
| 11 | Linode – Nanode (1 GB) | 82 MiB/s | $5 |
| 12 | DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) | 72 MiB/s | $12 |
| 13 | DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | 54 MiB/s | $8 |
| 14 | DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) | 52 MiB/s | $14 |
| 15 | Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) | 49 MiB/s | $5 |
| 16 | Linode – Linode (2 GB) | 45 MiB/s | $12 |
| 17 | DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | 27 MiB/s | $7 |
| 18 | DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) | 14 MiB/s | $6 |
Every instance runs the same benchmark suite on the same OS — numbers are from the latest monthly run. How we test →