DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

San Francisco 3

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 10, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

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Geekbench 7 multi-core

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Disk 4K IOPS

53,681

fio random read and write, 50/50

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Server

DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Provider

DigitalOcean
Plan

Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Location

San Francisco 3
vCPU

1
RAM

1 GB
Storage

25 GB NVMe
Network

2 Gbps
OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64
Trigger

Scheduled
Queued at

Oct 10, 2026, 10:50:00 UTC

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Latest runs of this plan

Frankfurt 1 Oct 11, 2026 Skipped
New York 3 Oct 9, 2026 Skipped

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CPU

Geekbench was skipped because this plan has less than 2 GB of RAM, which isn't enough for Geekbench 7 to run without swap.

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

Test	Result	Runs	Spread
Copy higher is better	23.8 GB/s	3	2.87%
Scale higher is better	16.7 GB/s	3	2.41%
Add higher is better	19 GB/s	3	0.7%
Triad higher is better	19.3 GB/s	3	3.02%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Test	Result	Runs	Spread
RSA 4096 signs higher is better	201/s	3	1.44%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better	13,311/s	3	4.1%
SHA-256 higher is better	638 MB/s	3	2.13%
AES-256-GCM higher is better	3.16 GB/s	3	1.02%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better	1.52 GB/s	3	11%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Test	Result	Runs	Spread
Request latency, median lower is better	4.53 ms	3	1.78%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better	220/s	3	1.72%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better	10.1 ms	3	2.86%
Requests per second, average higher is better	212/s	3	2.3%

Average of 3 runs. Spread is the standard deviation as a share of the average.

Disk

Block size	Read	Write	Total
4K	104.7 MB/s (26,805 IOPS)	105 MB/s (26,876 IOPS)	209.7 MB/s (53,681 IOPS)
64K	662.1 MB/s (10,593 IOPS)	665.6 MB/s (10,649 IOPS)	1.3 GB/s (21,242 IOPS)
512K	370.1 MB/s (740 IOPS)	389.7 MB/s (779 IOPS)	759.8 MB/s (1,519 IOPS)
1M	249.3 MB/s (249 IOPS)	265.9 MB/s (265 IOPS)	515.2 MB/s (514 IOPS)

fio random read and write, 50/50, run by YABS against the boot disk.

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

Target	Protocol	Send	Receive
Clouvider, London, UK (10G)	IPv4	1.27 Gbps	1.37 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G)	IPv4	1.64 Gbps	1.5 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G)	IPv4	1.19 Gbps	1.19 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)	IPv4	2 Gbps	1.89 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G)	IPv4	1.85 Gbps	1.52 Gbps

Public iperf3 servers vary in capacity and availability. Compare a target only with itself over time.

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

Method	Operations per second	Time per operation
One 8 kB write
open_datasync	4,565	0.219 ms
fdatasync	4,183	0.239 ms
fsync	1,897	0.527 ms
fsync_writethrough	Not supported here	n/a
open_sync	2,713	0.369 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync	2,060	0.485 ms
fdatasync	3,292	0.304 ms
fsync	1,931	0.518 ms
fsync_writethrough	Not supported here	n/a
open_sync	997	1 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write	2,001	0.5 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes	1,107	0.903 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes	782	1.28 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes	347	2.88 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes	150	6.67 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close	1,790	0.559 ms
write, close, fsync	1,589	0.629 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write	472,551	0.002 ms

pg_test_fsync against the Docker volume Postgres keeps its data on. fdatasync is Linux's default wal_sync_method.

pgbench at scale 10

Workload	Clients	Transactions/s	Median	p95	p99	p99.9
Read/write (TPC-B like)	1	1,365	0.646 ms	1.07 ms	2.31 ms	4.18 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	8	1,981	3.65 ms	6.68 ms	9.48 ms	16.8 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	32	1,768	14.4 ms	40.4 ms	68.4 ms	104 ms
Read only	1	19,997	0.044 ms	0.071 ms	0.092 ms	0.308 ms
Read only	8	20,657	0.324 ms	0.617 ms	0.813 ms	1.79 ms
Read only	32	17,588	1.44 ms	2.79 ms	3.6 ms	6.26 ms

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.4 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

pgbench at scale 100

Workload	Clients	Transactions/s	Median	p95	p99	p99.9
Read/write (TPC-B like)	1	809	1.12 ms	1.95 ms	4.09 ms	9.7 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	8	1,602	4.4 ms	8.66 ms	13.2 ms	22.9 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	32	1,593	18.7 ms	30.4 ms	38.6 ms	61.3 ms
Read only	1	2,475	0.377 ms	0.729 ms	1.64 ms	3.33 ms
Read only	8	6,900	1.05 ms	2.24 ms	3.37 ms	5.32 ms
Read only	32	7,243	3.62 ms	7.2 ms	9.91 ms	14 ms

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 26 s. 60 s per run, prepared statements. Latency comes from sampled transaction logs, and p99.9 is left out when fewer than 1,000 were sampled.

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Workload	Threads	Transactions/s	Queries/s	Median	p95	p99
Read/write	1	210	4,200	4.18 ms	8.28 ms	15.3 ms
Read/write	8	339	6,782	22.3 ms	35.6 ms	48.3 ms
Read/write	32	312	6,250	95.8 ms	159 ms	208 ms
Read only	1	680	10,877	1.37 ms	2 ms	2.76 ms
Read only	8	673	10,762	11.7 ms	15 ms	18 ms
Read only	32	617	9,868	51 ms	64.5 ms	71.8 ms

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 20.1 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix	Operations/s	Hits/s	Median	p99	p99.9
1:10 set:get	28,671	26,064	2.06 ms	4.45 ms	7.14 ms
1:1 set:get	28,789	14,394	2.05 ms	4.45 ms	7.33 ms

1,000,000 keys of 32 bytes. 64 connections over 1 thread, 60 s per ratio.

Web frameworks

Framework	Fortunes req/s	Single query req/s	JSON req/s	Fortunes p99 at 256 connections
Next.js nextjs	180	759	1,226	3.4 s
Express express-postgresjs	5,335	6,015	8,724	1.62 s
Fastify fastify-postgres	5,227	7,554	10,791	1.72 s
NestJS nestjs	1,812	2,051	6,334	251 ms
Nuxt nuxt	4,054	5,107	9,406	2.31 s
FastAPI fastapi	1,405	1,734	6,780	697 ms
Django django-postgresql	745	838	1,838	419 ms
Rails rails	1,106	1,592	5,421	285 ms
Laravel laravel	263	318	640	2.03 s
Symfony symfony	360	381	1,242	827 ms

Peak requests per second across the 64 and 256 connection levels, measured with wrk. Each test has to pass the TechEmpower response checks first, or it's marked invalid.

WooCommerce

Page mix

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
8 virtual users
Home page	0.876	1.68 s	1.89 s	1.94 s	0%
Shop page	0.876	2.17 s	2.51 s	2.61 s	0%
Category page	0.876	1.93 s	2.35 s	2.53 s	0%
Product page	0.876	1.64 s	1.81 s	1.88 s	0%
Product search	0.876	1.55 s	1.77 s	1.89 s	0%
32 virtual users
Home page	0.905	6.15 s	7.46 s	7.52 s	0%
Shop page	0.905	8.06 s	9.24 s	9.7 s	0%
Category page	0.905	7.83 s	9.55 s	9.77 s	0%
Product page	0.905	6.47 s	7.13 s	7.23 s	0%
Product search	0.89	5.91 s	6.61 s	6.67 s	0%

Cart and checkout

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart	1.5	1.79 s	2.31 s	2.52 s	0%
Cart	1.5	1.87 s	2.36 s	2.48 s	0%
Checkout	1.5	1.5 s	1.77 s	2.4 s	0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart	1.8	6.01 s	7.71 s	8.54 s	0%
Cart	1.8	6.69 s	8.15 s	8.49 s	0%
Checkout	1.41	5.3 s	6.78 s	6.94 s	0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 64 to 71 s per level. The error rate counts responses that weren't a 200.

Advertised vs. measured

Spec	Advertised	Measured
vCPU	1	1
CPU	Shared vCPU	0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
RAM	1 GB	961 MiB
Storage	25 GB NVMe	24.1 GiB
Architecture	x86_64	x86_64
Virtualization	KVM	KVM

Guests usually report slightly less RAM and disk than advertised because of kernel reservations and filesystem overhead.

Detected hardware

CPU model: DO-Premium-AMD
CPU cores: 1
CPU frequency: 1996 MHz
AES-NI: Yes
VM-x/AMD-V: Yes
RAM reported: 961 MiB
Swap reported: 0 MiB
Disk reported: 24.1 GiB
Virtualization reported: KVM
CPU steal: 0.1% of busy CPU time stolen
Distro: Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Kernel: 6.8.0-142-generic
Architecture: x86_64
IPv4 reachable: Yes
IPv6 reachable: Yes

Advertised at test time

Plan: Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Product line: Basic AMD
Location: San Francisco 3
vCPU: 1 shared vCPU
Architecture: x86_64
RAM: 1 GB
Storage: 25 GB NVMe
Virtualization: KVM
Network: 2 Gbps
Transfer: 1 TB
Port 25: Closed
Monthly price at test time: $7.00
Hourly price at test time: $0.010
YABS version: v2026-09-20
Ran at: Oct 10, 2026, 10:52:59 UTC
Parser version: 5

Run timeline

Queued: Oct 10, 2026, 10:50:00 UTC
First update from the server: Oct 10, 2026, 10:51:23 UTC
Completed: Oct 10, 2026, 12:03:00 UTC
Server deleted: Oct 10, 2026, 12:03:00 UTC
Cost of this run: $0.013

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PostgreSQL

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pgbench at scale 10

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memtier

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