I did a blog post last year that compared DigitalOcean, Vultr, and my 7 year old laptop for my Git indexing engine. Vultr performed better than DigitalOcean in all my tests.

You can find the numbers at https://gitsense.com/blog/benchmarking-march-14-2016.html

I probably should run the tests again to see how things have changed though.

So I ran a few tests by indexing https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode and these were the results

   DO - $10  | Vultr - $5 | Vultr - $10
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   00:38:59  |  00:31:58  | 00:29:43

Indexing produced 64 searchable branches and as the above shows, Vultr easily outperformed DigitalOcean, at half the price.

Edit:

To put the numbers into perspective, I ran another test in a virtual machine with VirtualBox on my local desktop and finished indexing in 00:21:29

I allocated 1 virtual core and 1 GB of RAM for the virtual machine. The desktop processor is an i5-4460 @3.20GHz

Thanks for the numbers.

As Vultr and Linode provide double the memory and other benefits for same price as DO, unless DO provides better plans, it's becoming a bit of a joke concerning raw performance / $.