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

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Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I've spun up some brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Vultr to run some benchmarks on. All instances were running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:00:52 GMT Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-124-generic 6.8.0-71-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 8.0.46-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
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 (Broadwell, 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 818.79 426.06
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.02 0.97
Average Latency (ms) 1.22 2.34
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.29 11.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.37 4.03

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second 4,016,644.99 3,186,627.49
Mebibytes per second 3,922.50 3,111.94
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.24 3.13
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,983,147.38 3,529,570.35
Mebibytes per second 3,889.79 3,446.85
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.35 0.73
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Reads per Second 2,012.81 531.03
Writes per Second 1,341.84 354.02
Fsyncs per Second 4,294.21 1,137.44
Read Mebibytes per Second 31.45 8.30
Written Mebibytes per Second 20.97 5.53
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.13 0.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.76 34.65
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.35 2.14

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,100.95 2,179.34
Average Latency (ms) 2,112.04 2,192.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,121.79 2,199.32
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,120.76 2,198.52

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,273.00 4,443.00
Queries per second 52,730.00 44,430.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.65 1.27
Average Latency (ms) 1.89 2.25
Maximum Latency (ms) 13.42 10.86
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.07 2.76

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,981.00 732.00
Queries per second 39,810.00 7,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.77 5.99
Average Latency (ms) 2.51 13.67
Maximum Latency (ms) 128.86 43.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.3 22.69

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,042.00 401.00
Queries per second 20,420.00 4,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.94 12.07
Average Latency (ms) 4.89 24.97
Maximum Latency (ms) 58.24 157.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.88 44.17

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,470.00 867.00
Queries per second 54,700.00 8,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.13 4.9
Average Latency (ms) 1.83 11.54
Maximum Latency (ms) 111.33 78.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.13 21.89

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 996,869.00 701,975.00
Queries per second 9,968,690.00 7,019,750.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 648.81 927.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 112,678.00 136,327.00
Queries per second 1,126,780.00 1,363,270.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.07
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.37 8.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.13 0.11

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,976.00 3,493.00
Queries per second 49,760.00 34,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.83 0.97
Average Latency (ms) 2.01 2.86
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.19 30.03
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 3.96

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,987.00 2,982.00
Queries per second 59,870.00 29,820.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.54 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.67 3.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.51 7.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.18 5

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,883.00 471.00
Queries per second 58,830.00 4,710.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.98 7.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.7 21.3
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.44 316.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.26 42.61

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 6,195.00 759.00
Queries per second 61,950.00 7,590.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.18 5.39
Average Latency (ms) 1.61 13.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 30.16 186.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.11 24.38

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 23,800.00 3,484.00
Queries per second 238,000.00 34,840.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.06 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.42 2.87
Maximum Latency (ms) 2553.92 53.15
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 14.46

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 34,129.69 37,936.27
PING_MBULK per Second 35,248.50 29,239.77
SET per Second 34,352.46 31,142.95
GET per Second 34,806.82 37,064.49
INCR per Second 34,199.73 36,886.76
LPUSH per Second 33,840.95 36,403.35
RPUSH per Second 34,698.12 36,310.82
LPOP per Second 32,041.01 35,087.72
RPOP per Second 33,400.13 36,873.16
SADD per Second 33,568.31 37,425.15
HSET per Second 33,489.62 35,448.42
SPOP per Second 34,855.35 31,867.43
ZADD per Second 32,658.39 33,579.59
ZPOPMIN per Second 33,134.53 36,886.76
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 22,158.21 15,003.75
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 12,084.59 6,284.57
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 8,313.93 4,604.48
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,367.57 3,898.18
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,807.15 24,789.29

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE0.960.88
PING_MBULK0.931.12
SET0.961.06
GET0.940.90
INCR0.970.90
LPUSH0.980.92
RPUSH0.950.92
LPOP1.030.96
RPOP0.990.92
SADD0.970.89
HSET0.980.94
SPOP0.941.02
ZADD1.010.99
ZPOPMIN0.990.89
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.502.40
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.815.55
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)4.107.48
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.588.75
MSET (10 keys)1.101.51

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

Comparing the benchmarks for both DigitalOcean and Vultr's 1 GB instances, Vultr generally outperforms DigitalOcean in Redis operations, achieving higher requests per second with lower average latencies across various commands. Vultr also excels in CPU metrics, showing higher events per second and lower average latency. Both instances perform similarly in terms of memory operations, but Vultr demonstrates superior file I/O performance with higher throughput and lower average latency. DigitalOcean's instances show slightly better results in specific MySQL operations and overall thread fairness. Depending on your use case, if you need superior Redis performance and file I/O capabilities, Vultr would be more suitable. For workloads that require slightly better MySQL performance or prioritize thread fairness, DigitalOcean might be the better option.

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