DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. Linode Nanode (1 GB)
Welcome to another round of the VPS Showdown. Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Linode and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:09:47 GMT
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:01:32 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-31-generic
7.0.0-34-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.11-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
Redis Version
8.0.5
8.0.5
Location
New York, NY
Newark, NJ
Monthly Price
$7.00
$5.00
RAM (GB)
1
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
25
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
1
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Tie
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB) takes 4 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
4,000.00
Events per Second
1,098.91
1,548.52
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.72
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
0.91
0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.09
21.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
3.13
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,162,799.09
4,152,415.63
Mebibytes per second
4,065.23
4,055.09
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.5
3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,248,501.02
5,085,089.33
Mebibytes per second
4,148.93
4,965.91
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.58
3.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,259.91
2,243.85
Writes per Second
839.91
1,495.90
Fsyncs per Second
2,696.32
4,795.18
Read Mebibytes per Second
19.69
35.06
Written Mebibytes per Second
13.12
23.37
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.21
0.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
48.77
10.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.67
0.29
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
2,291.63
2,091.27
Average Latency (ms)
2,304.59
2,118.60
Maximum Latency (ms)
2,317.78
2,135.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2,320.55
2,120.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,879.00
5,863.00
Queries per second
48,790.00
58,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.37
1.27
Average Latency (ms)
2.05
1.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
42.95
8.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.76
2.14
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,925.00
5,483.00
Queries per second
29,250.00
54,830.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.54
1.12
Average Latency (ms)
3.41
1.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.27
17.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.18
2.3
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,482.00
2,888.00
Queries per second
14,820.00
28,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.5
2.56
Average Latency (ms)
6.74
3.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
25.47
14.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.27
4.25
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,894.00
9,681.00
Queries per second
48,940.00
96,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.88
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
2.04
1.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.26
10.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.62
1.39
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,026,342.00
1,142,842.00
Queries per second
10,263,420.00
11,428,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
488.41
503.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
126,782.00
129,495.00
Queries per second
1,267,820.00
1,294,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.06
Average Latency (ms)
0.08
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.76
6.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,979.00
6,337.00
Queries per second
39,790.00
63,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.87
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
2.51
1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.34
8.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.62
2.26
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,301.00
7,456.00
Queries per second
53,010.00
74,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.6
0.49
Average Latency (ms)
1.88
1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.82
8.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
2.11
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,963.00
6,797.00
Queries per second
39,630.00
67,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.02
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
2.52
1.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.61
65.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.57
3.3
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,192.00
9,777.00
Queries per second
41,920.00
97,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.07
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
2.38
1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
19.27
8.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
4.18
1.34
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
37,116.00
48,437.00
Queries per second
371,160.00
484,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.06
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.27
0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.61
39.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.7
0.92
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
54,259.36
32,669.06
PING_MBULK per Second
53,106.74
33,738.19
SET per Second
54,495.91
15,948.96
GET per Second
56,980.06
31,675.64
INCR per Second
52,938.06
34,387.89
LPUSH per Second
49,825.61
34,650.04
RPUSH per Second
51,124.75
31,705.77
LPOP per Second
51,072.52
32,478.08
RPOP per Second
50,327.12
30,883.26
SADD per Second
52,083.34
33,046.93
HSET per Second
45,537.34
31,357.79
SPOP per Second
52,826.20
30,395.14
ZADD per Second
48,402.71
32,894.74
ZPOPMIN per Second
52,083.34
33,456.00
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
28,710.88
25,271.67
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
12,250.40
12,495.31
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
7,739.94
10,815.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
6,953.14
9,273.00
MSET (10 keys) per Second
41,101.52
30,066.15
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.59
0.94
PING_MBULK
0.59
0.90
SET
0.59
2.12
GET
0.56
1.00
INCR
0.61
0.90
LPUSH
0.65
0.90
RPUSH
0.63
0.97
LPOP
0.65
0.96
RPOP
0.65
1.01
SADD
0.62
0.93
HSET
0.71
0.99
SPOP
0.60
1.01
ZADD
0.67
0.95
ZPOPMIN
0.61
0.92
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.21
1.29
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.68
2.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.95
2.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
4.40
3.28
MSET (10 keys)
0.97
1.09
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The DigitalOcean Premium AMD instance wins overall based on the Redis GET and LPUSH benchmarks, achieving higher requests per second (rps) at 56980.06 and 49825.61 respectively, while also showing better latency averages. For users prioritizing CPU-intensive tasks or looking for reliable read and write operations, this instance is the better choice due to its superior performance metrics in these benchmarks.
From the friendly human:
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