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DigitalOcean San Francisco 3 VPS benchmarks

Plans sold here
9
1 tested here
Runs here
1
Completed benchmarks
Starting price
$7.00/mo
Basic AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB
Single-core vs other locations
n/a
No plan tested here and elsewhere yet
Last tested
Oct 6, 2026
Most recent result

Tested plans

1 plan tested in San Francisco 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
No longer sold here 		1 shared vCPU 1 GB $6.00/mo
1 run
Other locations
 n/a n/a 87,344 n/a Oct 6, 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 San Francisco 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

One run per plan so far, higher is better

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iperf3 receive over IPv4

One run per target so far, in Mbps. Each target is only compared with itself.

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Recent runs

Every DigitalOcean run in San Francisco

1 run, newest first.

Server Specs Storage Network Single-core Multi-core 4K IOPS Monthly price Tested
DigitalOcean
Basic 1 vCPU / 1 GB
San Francisco 3
1 vCPU
1 GB
 25 GB SSD 2 Gbps Skipped Skipped 87,344 $6.00per month Oct 6, 2026
DigitalOcean
San Francisco 3
Skipped
1 vCPU 1 GB 25 GB SSD
$6.00/mo

Also sold here

Every DigitalOcean plan

9 plans sold here without a run in San Francisco 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 AMD
 1 shared vCPU 2 GB 50 GB NVMe 2 TB $14.00/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 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 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

Location details

Provider ID
sfo3
City
San Francisco
Region
CA
Country
US
Status
Active
Location data
Synced from API
Last synced
Oct 8, 2026

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