DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Frankfurt 1

Benchmark complete

Finished Oct 11, 2026

Geekbench 7 single-core

Skipped

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Skipped

Disk 4K IOPS

59,178

fio random read and write, 50/50

Monthly price at test time

$7.00

Same price today

Server

DigitalOcean Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB

Provider

DigitalOcean
Plan

Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Location

Frankfurt 1
vCPU

1
RAM

1 GB
Storage

25 GB NVMe
Network

2 Gbps
OS image

ubuntu-24-04-x64
Trigger

Scheduled
Queued at

Oct 11, 2026, 05:00:00 UTC

Visit DigitalOcean

Referral link. If you sign up through it, I may get paid.

Skip the referral How this works

Latest runs of this plan

San Francisco 3 Oct 10, 2026 Skipped
New York 3 Oct 9, 2026 Skipped

Full history of this plan

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	26.2 GB/s	3	5.53%
Scale higher is better	20 GB/s	3	1.99%
Add higher is better	22.3 GB/s	3	3.99%
Triad higher is better	22.8 GB/s	3	5.05%

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	176/s	3	6.32%
RSA 4096 verifies higher is better	11,682/s	3	3.44%
SHA-256 higher is better	647 MB/s	3	1.21%
AES-256-GCM higher is better	2.78 GB/s	3	10.3%
ChaCha20-Poly1305 higher is better	1.78 GB/s	3	4.03%

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	6.04 ms	3	4.13%
Requests per second, 90th percentile higher is better	168/s	3	2.4%
Request latency, 99.9th percentile lower is better	12.4 ms	3	6.18%
Requests per second, average higher is better	160/s	3	4.1%

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

Disk

Block size	Read	Write	Total
4K	115.4 MB/s (29,550 IOPS)	115.7 MB/s (29,628 IOPS)	231.2 MB/s (59,178 IOPS)
64K	778.4 MB/s (12,455 IOPS)	782.5 MB/s (12,520 IOPS)	1.52 GB/s (24,975 IOPS)
512K	583 MB/s (1,165 IOPS)	614 MB/s (1,227 IOPS)	1.17 GB/s (2,392 IOPS)
1M	262.8 MB/s (262 IOPS)	280.3 MB/s (280 IOPS)	543 MB/s (542 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	1.96 Gbps	1.84 Gbps
Eranium, Amsterdam, NL (100G)	IPv4	2.01 Gbps	1.88 Gbps
Leaseweb, Singapore, SG (10G)	IPv4	1.35 Gbps	1.24 Gbps
Clouvider, Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)	IPv4	1.17 Gbps	1.25 Gbps
Leaseweb, NYC, NY, US (10G)	IPv4	1.8 Gbps	1.58 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	3,514	0.285 ms
fdatasync	3,705	0.27 ms
fsync	1,223	0.818 ms
fsync_writethrough	Not supported here	n/a
open_sync	1,618	0.618 ms
Two 8 kB writes
open_datasync	1,810	0.552 ms
fdatasync	3,268	0.306 ms
fsync	1,280	0.781 ms
fsync_writethrough	Not supported here	n/a
open_sync	751	1.33 ms
open_sync at different write sizes
1 * 16kB open_sync write	1,165	0.858 ms
2 * 8kB open_sync writes	600	1.67 ms
4 * 4kB open_sync writes	323	3.09 ms
8 * 2kB open_sync writes	198	5.04 ms
16 * 1kB open_sync writes	104	9.6 ms
fsync on a non-write descriptor
write, fsync, close	1,487	0.672 ms
write, close, fsync	1,224	0.817 ms
Non-synced 8 kB writes
write	409,240	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	886	0.945 ms	2.09 ms	4.04 ms	9 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	8	1,504	4.76 ms	8.9 ms	12.5 ms	19.5 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	32	1,341	19.3 ms	51 ms	88.3 ms	143 ms
Read only	1	14,841	0.061 ms	0.101 ms	0.13 ms	0.572 ms
Read only	8	17,740	0.378 ms	0.747 ms	0.971 ms	1.85 ms
Read only	32	15,168	1.71 ms	2.82 ms	3.67 ms	6.4 ms

Scale 10 (1,000,000 accounts), loaded in 2.52 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	729	1.27 ms	2.04 ms	3.75 ms	7.33 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	8	1,433	5.16 ms	8.87 ms	12.3 ms	17.4 ms
Read/write (TPC-B like)	32	1,383	21.8 ms	33.2 ms	41.3 ms	54.4 ms
Read only	1	2,334	0.403 ms	0.745 ms	1.57 ms	2.83 ms
Read only	8	5,724	1.28 ms	2.57 ms	3.71 ms	5.9 ms
Read only	32	5,836	4.64 ms	8.47 ms	11.5 ms	16.6 ms

Scale 100 (10,000,000 accounts), loaded in 26.7 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	199	3,978	4.65 ms	7.7 ms	14.7 ms
Read/write	8	257	5,130	27.2 ms	53.9 ms	81.5 ms
Read/write	32	246	4,919	123 ms	200 ms	263 ms
Read only	1	562	8,989	1.7 ms	2.35 ms	3.3 ms
Read only	8	551	8,808	14.2 ms	18.6 ms	21.5 ms
Read only	32	531	8,492	58.9 ms	75.8 ms	83 ms

10 tables of 100,000 rows, loaded in 20.8 s. 60 s per run, one connection per thread.

Redis

memtier

Mix	Operations/s	Hits/s	Median	p99	p99.9
1:10 set:get	21,390	19,445	2.74 ms	6.14 ms	9.73 ms
1:1 set:get	22,171	11,085	2.45 ms	5.92 ms	9.34 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	153	697	1,170	4.69 s
Express express-postgresjs	4,644	4,413	6,708	2.08 s
Fastify fastify-postgres	4,337	4,746	8,562	2.6 s
NestJS nestjs	1,594	1,732	4,878	263 ms
Nuxt nuxt	3,502	4,094	7,382	3.42 s
FastAPI fastapi	1,055	1,477	5,914	824 ms
Django django-postgresql	649	725	1,448	479 ms
Rails rails	921	1,060	3,882	497 ms
Laravel laravel	254	261	491	1.57 s
Symfony symfony	330	331	930	947 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	0.79	1.78 s	2.58 s	2.73 s	0%
Shop page	0.79	2.43 s	3.28 s	3.43 s	0%
Category page	0.79	2.24 s	2.94 s	3.3 s	0%
Product page	0.762	1.79 s	2.52 s	2.59 s	0%
Product search	0.677	1.7 s	2.13 s	2.25 s	0%
32 virtual users
Home page	0.889	7.98 s	9.6 s	9.82 s	0%
Shop page	0.889	10.8 s	12.2 s	12.4 s	0%
Category page	0.736	9.66 s	11.6 s	12 s	0%
Product page	0.445	7.44 s	7.74 s	7.8 s	0%
Product search	0.445	7.5 s	7.57 s	7.6 s	0%

Cart and checkout

Step	Requests/s	Median	p95	p99	Error rate
8 virtual users
Add to cart	1.25	1.98 s	2.49 s	2.56 s	0%
Cart	1.25	2.08 s	2.42 s	2.49 s	0%
Checkout	1.25	1.61 s	1.92 s	2.06 s	0%
32 virtual users
Add to cart	1.45	6.96 s	8.71 s	9.18 s	0%
Cart	1.45	7.96 s	8.84 s	9.05 s	0%
Checkout	1.45	6.49 s	7.35 s	7.48 s	0%

k6 with a fixed number of virtual users, 66 to 72 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	4.6% 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: 2300 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: 4.6% 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: Frankfurt 1
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 11, 2026, 05:03:23 UTC
Parser version: 5

Run timeline

Queued: Oct 11, 2026, 05:00:00 UTC
First update from the server: Oct 11, 2026, 05:01:36 UTC
Completed: Oct 11, 2026, 06:14:00 UTC
Server deleted: Oct 11, 2026, 06:14:00 UTC
Cost of this run: $0.013

TestResultTimevs last run

Watch party 0 watching

This party closed at 06:06 UTC. It's read only now.

Loading the party

RackCensus

Server

Latest runs of this plan

CPU

Memory, TLS and scheduler

Memory bandwidth (STREAM)

TLS and crypto (OpenSSL)

Scheduler latency (schbench)

Disk

Network

IPv4 transfer speed

Datastores

PostgreSQL

fsync speed (pg_test_fsync)

pgbench at scale 10

pgbench at scale 100

MySQL

sysbench OLTP

Redis

memtier

Web frameworks

WooCommerce

Page mix

Cart and checkout

Advertised vs. measured

Detected hardware

Advertised at test time

Run timeline

Watch party