Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! 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 all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:00:53 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
6.8.0-107-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
820.77
413.49
Minimum Latency (ms)
1
0.98
Average Latency (ms)
1.22
2.41
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.71
6.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.32
3.96
Memory
Memory Read
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,183,460.82
2,931,810.57
Mebibytes per second
4,085.41
2,863.10
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.32
3.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,091,149.16
3,364,154.34
Mebibytes per second
3,995.26
3,285.31
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.91
1.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Reads per Second
2,036.96
1,031.43
Writes per Second
1,357.97
687.62
Fsyncs per Second
4,346.01
2,211.89
Read Mebibytes per Second
31.83
16.12
Written Mebibytes per Second
21.22
10.74
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.13
0.25
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.89
124.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.3
0.64
Mutex
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,927.10
2,085.64
Average Latency (ms)
1,939.45
2,117.30
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,950.93
2,126.74
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,938.16
2,120.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,023.00
4,188.00
Queries per second
50,230.00
41,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.72
1.34
Average Latency (ms)
1.99
2.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.42
13.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.18
2.76
MySQL Write-only
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,626.00
898.00
Queries per second
36,260.00
8,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.75
3.87
Average Latency (ms)
2.76
11.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.81
199.35
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.41
22.28
MySQL Read/Write
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,959.00
977.00
Queries per second
19,590.00
9,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
4.12
6.44
Average Latency (ms)
5.1
10.23
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.97
46.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.21
15.27
MySQL INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,524.00
2,413.00
Queries per second
65,240.00
24,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.08
2.28
Average Latency (ms)
1.53
4.14
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.83
161.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
6.79
MySQL Bulk INSERT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
996,869.00
767,507.00
Queries per second
9,968,690.00
7,675,070.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
477.16
701.42
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
104,020.00
129,998.00
Queries per second
1,040,200.00
1,299,980.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.1
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.02
2.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.14
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,526.00
2,875.00
Queries per second
55,260.00
28,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.63
1.27
Average Latency (ms)
1.81
3.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.77
24.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.35
4.74
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,273.00
2,894.00
Queries per second
62,730.00
28,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.5
1.12
Average Latency (ms)
1.59
3.45
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.53
12.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.07
4.91
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,371.00
1,665.00
Queries per second
63,710.00
16,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.03
2.62
Average Latency (ms)
1.57
6
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.68
45.51
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.14
11.65
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,541.00
1,754.00
Queries per second
65,410.00
17,540.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.91
2.21
Average Latency (ms)
1.53
5.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
24.84
163.84
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
11.04
MySQL DELETE
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second
43,573.00
15,267.00
Queries per second
435,730.00
152,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.07
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.23
0.65
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.55
31.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.42
3.62
Redis
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
35,050.82
29,577.05
PING_MBULK per Second
33,534.54
36,496.35
SET per Second
36,010.08
32,164.68
GET per Second
35,149.38
36,589.83
INCR per Second
36,523.01
36,390.10
LPUSH per Second
37,369.21
35,001.75
RPUSH per Second
38,774.72
32,552.08
LPOP per Second
36,982.25
34,470.87
RPOP per Second
36,724.20
31,575.62
SADD per Second
36,563.07
28,546.96
HSET per Second
32,701.11
29,673.59
SPOP per Second
36,205.65
31,705.77
ZADD per Second
37,467.22
31,585.60
ZPOPMIN per Second
37,495.31
33,255.74
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
24,801.59
13,048.02
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
13,208.29
6,657.35
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
9,684.29
4,256.59
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
7,718.43
3,682.29
MSET (10 keys) per Second
33,602.15
19,047.62
Redis Average Latency (ms)
Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.93
1.10
PING_MBULK
0.96
0.90
SET
0.91
1.03
GET
0.92
0.91
INCR
0.90
0.91
LPUSH
0.88
0.95
RPUSH
0.85
1.01
LPOP
0.89
0.98
RPOP
0.90
1.06
SADD
0.89
1.13
HSET
1.01
1.09
SPOP
0.89
1.03
ZADD
0.88
1.04
ZPOPMIN
0.87
0.98
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.35
2.76
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.57
5.26
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.54
8.10
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.41
9.21
MSET (10 keys)
1.02
2.01
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Upon analyzing the benchmark results of the DigitalOcean and Vultr instances, it's evident that Vultr's Cloud Compute instance outpaces DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) in most metrics, particularly in Redis operations where higher RPS rates and lower latencies are observed, suggesting more efficient memory and CPU usage. Vultr also demonstrates superior performance in file I/O operations, with higher throughput and lower latencies. However, DigitalOcean maintains competitive performance in CPU benchmarks and has better performance in memory operations, though both are highly capable. The Vultr instance is more suited for workloads that benefit from higher throughput and lower latency in I/O-heavy and CPU-intensive tasks, while the DigitalOcean instance may be preferable for applications requiring stable, reliable memory performance.
From the friendly human:
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