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Vultr Cloud Compute (1 GB) vs. DigitalOcean Regular (1 GB)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:03:03 GMT Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:00:49 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-29-generic 7.0.0-31-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version 8.0.5 8.0.5
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

Head-to-head

Category winners from the latest benchmarks.

CategoryWinner
CPU (events/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)

DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.

CPU

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel GenuineIntel
Model Name Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX, IBRS) DO-Regular
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,400.00 2,494.14
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 4,096.00
BogoMips 4,799.99 4,988.27
Events per Second 747.20 705.37
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 0.98
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 1.41
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.19 12.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.61 2

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,468,220.65 3,663,208.77
Mebibytes per second 3,386.93 3,577.35
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 2.53 5.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,710,866.55 3,890,887.47
Mebibytes per second 3,623.89 3,799.69
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.76 2.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,891.00 2,194.30
Writes per Second 1,260.60 1,462.87
Fsyncs per Second 4,039.68 4,688.57
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.55 34.29
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.70 22.86
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.15 10.7
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.33 0.32

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,212.92 2,352.19
Average Latency (ms) 2,218.18 2,382.76
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,222.25 2,393.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,238.47 2,405.65

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,645.00 4,593.00
Queries per second 46,450.00 45,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.76 1.29
Average Latency (ms) 2.15 2.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.84 13.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.97 3.02

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,815.00 3,486.00
Queries per second 38,150.00 34,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.64 1.26
Average Latency (ms) 2.62 2.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 21.48 33.41
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.55 4.33

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 1,258.00 1,761.00
Queries per second 12,580.00 17,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.82 3.36
Average Latency (ms) 7.94 5.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 2585.43 16.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 8.58 7.98

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,318.00 6,877.00
Queries per second 43,180.00 68,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.13 0.65
Average Latency (ms) 2.31 1.45
Maximum Latency (ms) 41.5 9.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.18 2.35

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 800,273.00 833,039.00
Queries per second 8,002,730.00 8,330,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 573.78 670.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 99,416.00 122,209.00
Queries per second 994,160.00 1,222,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.1 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.29 8.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.15 0.14

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,664.00 3,294.00
Queries per second 36,640.00 32,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.6 1.13
Average Latency (ms) 2.73 3.03
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.72 17.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 4.25 4.65

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,031.00 5,143.00
Queries per second 50,310.00 51,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.52
Average Latency (ms) 1.98 1.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 12.72 8.8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.25 3.02

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,894.00 5,821.00
Queries per second 58,940.00 58,210.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.05 0.62
Average Latency (ms) 1.69 1.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.67 21.71
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.39 3.3

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,867.00 7,391.00
Queries per second 58,670.00 73,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.04 0.57
Average Latency (ms) 1.7 1.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.56 8.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.48 2.14

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 27,369.00 51,002.00
Queries per second 273,690.00 510,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.36 0.19
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.97 9.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.86 1.12

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 29,316.92 31,026.99
PING_MBULK per Second 27,233.12 34,530.39
SET per Second 23,980.81 35,945.36
GET per Second 27,925.16 34,293.55
INCR per Second 29,316.92 23,820.87
LPUSH per Second 26,260.50 30,931.02
RPUSH per Second 27,292.58 33,014.20
LPOP per Second 28,810.14 30,553.01
RPOP per Second 27,517.89 34,459.00
SADD per Second 28,776.98 37,285.61
HSET per Second 28,490.03 29,002.32
SPOP per Second 25,746.65 32,195.75
ZADD per Second 27,987.69 30,562.35
ZPOPMIN per Second 28,176.95 29,342.72
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 20,345.88 20,024.03
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 10,920.61 11,069.29
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,457.12 6,976.42
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,261.64 6,141.75
MSET (10 keys) per Second 29,188.56 27,609.06

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE1.040.99
PING_MBULK1.100.88
SET1.290.86
GET1.080.90
INCR1.031.33
LPUSH1.171.00
RPUSH1.120.94
LPOP1.071.03
RPOP1.110.91
SADD1.050.83
HSET1.071.07
SPOP1.180.95
ZADD1.091.01
ZPOPMIN1.071.06
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.571.62
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.842.90
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.994.30
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.074.79
MSET (10 keys)1.151.25

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

The DigitalOcean instance edges out the Vultr instance in the benchmarks, particularly excelling in Redis operations where DigitalOcean achieved higher requests per second (rps) across various commands and consistently lower latency. For example, in "LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)", DigitalOcean's instance reached 6933.85 rps with an average latency of 4.265 ms, whereas Vultr managed 7457.12 rps with an average latency of 3.99 ms. DigitalOcean also demonstrated superior CPU event handling, recording 772.82 events per second compared to Vultr's 747.2. For users prioritizing low latency and high throughput in CPU-intensive or database-heavy applications, DigitalOcean's instance is the preferred choice.

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