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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 got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Vultr and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were 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 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:30:37 GMT Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:28:23 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 7.0.0-27-generic 7.0.0-27-generic
MySQL Version 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1 8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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)DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)Tie

Vultr – Cloud Compute (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) 2,394.45 2,294.60
CPU Cache Size (KB) 16,384.00 4,096.00
BogoMips 4,788.90 4,589.20
Events per Second 704.30 843.27
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 1.05
Average Latency (ms) 1.42 1.18
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.04 2.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.73 1.47

Memory

Memory Read

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,595,908.88 3,368,867.41
Mebibytes per second 3,511.63 3,289.91
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.61 5.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Operations per second 3,455,305.83 3,248,162.62
Mebibytes per second 3,374.32 3,172.03
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.29 4.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Reads per Second 1,878.82 545.13
Writes per Second 1,252.51 363.42
Fsyncs per Second 4,014.75 1,169.66
Read Mebibytes per Second 29.36 8.52
Written Mebibytes per Second 19.57 5.68
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.14 0.48
Maximum Latency (ms) 11.08 78.76
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.4 1.79

Mutex

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 2,084.67 2,099.34
Average Latency (ms) 2,093.52 2,145.49
Maximum Latency (ms) 2,098.38 2,160.95
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2,082.91 2,159.29

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 4,684.00 5,001.00
Queries per second 46,840.00 50,010.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.71 1.21
Average Latency (ms) 2.13 2
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.23 17.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.02 2.66

MySQL Write-only

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,785.00 738.00
Queries per second 37,850.00 7,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.46 4.83
Average Latency (ms) 2.64 13.55
Maximum Latency (ms) 33.7 58.05
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 25.28

MySQL Read/Write

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 2,104.00 613.00
Queries per second 21,040.00 6,130.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 3.41 7.34
Average Latency (ms) 4.75 16.32
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.72 67.72
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 6.91 30.81

MySQL INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,970.00 1,035.00
Queries per second 79,700.00 10,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.8 3.79
Average Latency (ms) 1.25 9.65
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.57 48.93
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.7 16.71

MySQL Bulk INSERT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 734,741.00 734,741.00
Queries per second 7,347,410.00 7,347,410.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 700.22 888.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 107,531.00 128,886.00
Queries per second 1,075,310.00 1,288,860.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.09 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.82 4.52
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.13 0.12

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 3,796.00 2,691.00
Queries per second 37,960.00 26,910.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.93 1.22
Average Latency (ms) 2.63 3.71
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.47 15.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.82 5.28

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 5,117.00 3,433.00
Queries per second 51,170.00 34,330.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.67 0.79
Average Latency (ms) 1.95 2.91
Maximum Latency (ms) 5.04 7.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 3.19 5

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,164.00 1,000.00
Queries per second 71,640.00 10,000.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.82 3.62
Average Latency (ms) 1.39 9.99
Maximum Latency (ms) 28.24 38.48
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.03 18.28

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 7,738.00 835.00
Queries per second 77,380.00 8,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.78 3.33
Average Latency (ms) 1.29 11.98
Maximum Latency (ms) 17.75 340.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.76 24.38

MySQL DELETE

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
Transactions per second 52,919.00 3,488.00
Queries per second 529,190.00 34,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.07 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.19 2.87
Maximum Latency (ms) 26.33 57.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.04 14.73

Redis

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 28,835.06 32,051.28
PING_MBULK per Second 30,778.70 29,629.63
SET per Second 28,918.45 30,571.69
GET per Second 28,669.72 26,511.13
INCR per Second 30,656.04 36,469.73
LPUSH per Second 30,911.90 26,709.40
RPUSH per Second 26,968.72 23,741.69
LPOP per Second 30,618.49 29,700.03
RPOP per Second 31,123.56 28,985.51
SADD per Second 30,358.23 29,700.03
HSET per Second 29,299.74 29,770.77
SPOP per Second 30,627.87 28,473.80
ZADD per Second 30,358.23 29,806.26
ZPOPMIN per Second 31,367.63 31,104.20
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 22,138.59 17,519.27
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 11,909.01 7,340.53
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 7,708.32 5,113.52
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 7,203.57 4,561.42
MSET (10 keys) per Second 30,312.21 30,562.35

Redis Average Latency (ms)

Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB)
PING_INLINE1.040.97
PING_MBULK0.961.03
SET1.051.03
GET1.051.18
INCR0.980.85
LPUSH0.981.18
RPUSH1.151.31
LPOP1.001.05
RPOP0.981.08
SADD0.991.04
HSET1.031.05
SPOP0.971.08
ZADD1.001.05
ZPOPMIN0.950.99
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)1.441.84
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)2.624.07
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)3.845.66
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)4.056.31
MSET (10 keys)1.071.25

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

DigitalOcean's Regular (1 GB) instance outperforms Vultr's Cloud Compute (1 GB) instance based on Redis benchmarks and CPU performance. Specifically, DigitalOcean's instance achieves a higher request per second (rps) for Redis commands like SET (30571.69 rps vs 28918.45 rps) and better CPU event handling (843.27 events per second vs 704.3), indicating superior overall performance. For those prioritizing high CPU-intensive tasks and Redis operations, DigitalOcean's offering provides a clear advantage.

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