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DigitalOcean Amsterdam 3 VPS benchmarks

Plans sold here
14
1 tested here
Runs here
2
Completed benchmarks
Starting price
$6.00/mo
Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Single-core vs other locations
n/a
No plan tested here and elsewhere yet
Last tested
Oct 7, 2026
Most recent result

Tested plans

1 plan tested in Amsterdam 3. Scores are medians over the last 90 days. The gap column compares single-core here with the median of the same plan in DigitalOcean's other tested locations.

Plan vCPU RAM Price Runs GB7 single GB7 multi 4K IOPS Single-core gap Last tested
Basic
1 shared vCPU 1 GB $6.00/mo
2 runs
n/a n/a 42,867 n/a Oct 7, 2026

Gaps under 5 percent are normal run-to-run variance and aren't highlighted.

Network results are not compared across locations. iperf3 targets are third-party servers, so distance to each target dominates the number.

Performance over time

Every DigitalOcean plan tested in Amsterdam 3, including network results to each iperf3 target from here.

Geekbench 7 single-core

Weekly average per plan, higher is better

No results yet.

Geekbench 7 multi-core

Weekly average per plan, higher is better

No results yet.

Disk 4K mixed IOPS

Every run per plan, higher is better

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iperf3 receive over IPv4

Every run per target, in Mbps. Each target is only compared with itself.

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2 runs, newest first.

Benchmark runs
CPU · Geekbench 7 Disk
Server Specs Storage Network Single-core Multi-core 4K IOPS Monthly price Tested
1 vCPU
1 GB
25 GB SSD 2 Gbps Skipped Skipped 50,967 $6.00per month Oct 7, 2026
1 vCPU
1 GB
25 GB SSD 2 Gbps Skipped Skipped 34,767 $6.00per month Oct 6, 2026
1 vCPU 1 GB 25 GB SSD
$6.00/mo
1 vCPU 1 GB 25 GB SSD
$6.00/mo

Also sold here

Every DigitalOcean plan

13 plans sold here without a run in Amsterdam 3 yet.

Plan vCPU RAM Storage Transfer Price
Basic AMD
1 shared vCPU 1 GB 25 GB NVMe 1 TB $7.00/mo
Basic Intel
1 shared vCPU 1 GB 25 GB NVMe 1 TB $7.00/mo
Basic
1 shared vCPU 2 GB 50 GB SSD 2 TB $12.00/mo
Basic AMD
1 shared vCPU 2 GB 50 GB NVMe 2 TB $14.00/mo
Basic
2 shared vCPU 2 GB 60 GB SSD 3 TB $18.00/mo
Basic AMD
2 shared vCPU 2 GB 60 GB NVMe 3 TB $21.00/mo
Basic Intel
2 shared vCPU 2 GB 60 GB NVMe 3 TB $21.00/mo
Basic
4 shared vCPU 8 GB 160 GB SSD 5 TB $48.00/mo
Basic AMD
4 shared vCPU 8 GB 160 GB NVMe 5 TB $56.00/mo
Basic Intel
4 shared vCPU 8 GB 160 GB NVMe 5 TB $56.00/mo
Basic
8 shared vCPU 16 GB 320 GB SSD 6 TB $96.00/mo
Basic AMD
8 shared vCPU 16 GB 320 GB NVMe 6 TB $112.00/mo
Basic Intel
8 shared vCPU 16 GB 320 GB NVMe 6 TB $112.00/mo