Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB)
New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:00:51 GMT
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-100-generic
6.8.0-71-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
Newark, NJ
New York, NY
Monthly Price
$5.00
$6.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
SSD
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
CPU
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vendor
GenuineIntel
GenuineIntel
Model Name
Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX, IBRS)
DO-Regular
Clock Speed (MHz)
2,400.00
2,294.61
CPU Cache Size (KB)
16,384.00
4,096.00
BogoMips
4,799.99
4,589.21
Events per Second
789.59
387.61
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.16
0.99
Average Latency (ms)
1.27
2.57
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.45
6.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.34
4.33
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,918,177.35
2,159,653.01
Mebibytes per second
3,826.35
2,109.04
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.23
3.81
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,908,567.36
3,104,196.36
Mebibytes per second
3,816.96
3,031.44
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.45
0.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,594.63
764.77
Writes per Second
1,063.09
509.85
Fsyncs per Second
3,407.62
1,635.99
Read Mebibytes per Second
24.92
11.95
Written Mebibytes per Second
16.61
7.97
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.16
0.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.52
141.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.42
1.21
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,039.00
2,605.86
Average Latency (ms)
2,047.18
2,616.99
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,058.11
2,630.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,045.74
2,632.28
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,857.00
3,580.00
Queries per second
48,570.00
35,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.84
1.7
Average Latency (ms)
2.06
2.79
Maximum Latency (ms)
8.4
20.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
3.36
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,825.00
1,094.00
Queries per second
28,250.00
10,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.95
4.94
Average Latency (ms)
3.54
9.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
32.06
173.39
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.32
13.46
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,532.00
812.00
Queries per second
15,320.00
8,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
4.34
7.49
Average Latency (ms)
6.52
12.31
Maximum Latency (ms)
35
54.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.27
17.01
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,892.00
1,557.00
Queries per second
48,920.00
15,570.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.12
3.96
Average Latency (ms)
2.04
6.41
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.75
36.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.96
9.73
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
833,039.00
636,443.00
Queries per second
8,330,390.00
6,364,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
655.03
841.96
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
102,586.00
106,875.00
Queries per second
1,025,860.00
1,068,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.1
0.09
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.33
3.01
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.13
0.15
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,155.00
2,896.00
Queries per second
51,550.00
28,960.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.65
1.53
Average Latency (ms)
1.94
3.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.67
14.99
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.52
4.49
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,999.00
2,687.00
Queries per second
59,990.00
26,870.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.53
0.95
Average Latency (ms)
1.67
3.72
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.75
7.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
5.47
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,979.00
1,241.00
Queries per second
39,790.00
12,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.1
4.3
Average Latency (ms)
2.51
8.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
36.68
160.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.91
13.95
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,131.00
1,307.00
Queries per second
41,310.00
13,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.21
4.05
Average Latency (ms)
2.42
7.66
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.52
98.17
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.91
12.52
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
30,696.00
6,422.00
Queries per second
306,960.00
64,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.08
0.06
Average Latency (ms)
0.32
1.56
Maximum Latency (ms)
51.16
49.19
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.76
7.84
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
33,715.44
30,284.68
PING_MBULK per Second
35,663.34
32,573.29
SET per Second
34,602.07
30,293.85
GET per Second
37,243.95
29,904.30
INCR per Second
35,310.73
27,932.96
LPUSH per Second
35,549.23
28,571.43
RPUSH per Second
35,739.81
30,571.69
LPOP per Second
36,818.85
30,193.24
RPOP per Second
35,460.99
30,321.41
SADD per Second
36,589.83
32,289.31
HSET per Second
36,114.12
31,959.09
SPOP per Second
37,299.52
32,299.74
ZADD per Second
35,511.36
33,057.85
ZPOPMIN per Second
37,009.62
31,969.31
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
23,986.57
13,513.51
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
12,658.23
6,263.70
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
8,469.55
4,185.15
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,245.33
3,583.97
MSET (10 keys) per Second
32,819.17
25,614.75
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.99
1.09
PING_MBULK
0.91
1.00
SET
0.95
1.09
GET
0.88
1.10
INCR
0.93
1.16
LPUSH
0.93
1.15
RPUSH
0.93
1.08
LPOP
0.91
1.10
RPOP
0.94
1.10
SADD
0.90
1.03
HSET
0.91
1.04
SPOP
0.88
1.02
ZADD
0.93
1.03
ZPOPMIN
0.89
1.03
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.39
2.68
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.66
5.61
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
4.01
8.12
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.62
9.50
MSET (10 keys)
1.06
1.44
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
When comparing the benchmark performance of the DigitalOcean and Vultr instances, it's clear that Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) generally outperforms DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) in terms of Redis operations, file I/O, and memory operations. Vultr shows higher request rates per second for most Redis commands and better throughput and latency in file I/O and memory operations, indicating it may handle I/O-heavy workloads more efficiently. However, DigitalOcean has lower latency in specific memory operations and slightly better CPU performance, suggesting it could be more suitable for CPU-intensive tasks. Overall, Vultr's superior benchmarks make it more ideal for applications requiring high throughput and low latency in I/O operations, while DigitalOcean might be preferable for tasks that favor lower memory operation latency and CPU efficiency.
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