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 did some benchmarking. All instances were running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in the New York area (or close to it). Without further ado, here's the results.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:37:21 GMT
Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 GMT
Linux Distro
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version
7.0.0-27-generic
7.0.0-22-generic
MySQL Version
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
8.4.10-0ubuntu0.26.04.1
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)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
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 5 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
1,270.29
2,995.79
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.66
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
0.79
0.33
Maximum Latency (ms)
16.91
3.68
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.87
0.34
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,259,692.62
5,138,712.44
Mebibytes per second
4,159.86
5,018.27
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
2.04
0.36
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
4,578,740.48
5,126,038.83
Mebibytes per second
4,471.43
5,005.90
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.32
2.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,043.48
3,144.54
Writes per Second
695.66
2,096.29
Fsyncs per Second
2,238.59
6,714.53
Read Mebibytes per Second
16.30
49.13
Written Mebibytes per Second
10.87
32.75
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.25
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
26.9
40.23
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.92
0.19
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,955.91
1,726.97
Average Latency (ms)
1,970.75
1,752.52
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,977.87
1,763.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,973.38
1,771.29
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,004.00
7,323.00
Queries per second
60,040.00
73,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
1.26
Average Latency (ms)
1.66
1.36
Maximum Latency (ms)
352.46
3.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.96
1.58
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,993.00
4,970.00
Queries per second
29,930.00
49,700.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.31
1.15
Average Latency (ms)
3.34
2.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
34.24
99.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
6.91
3.19
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,677.00
3,294.00
Queries per second
16,770.00
32,940.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
3.14
2.51
Average Latency (ms)
5.96
3.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
81.28
24.98
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.84
3.68
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,786.00
11,632.00
Queries per second
67,860.00
116,320.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.79
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.47
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
23.78
6.61
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.57
1.14
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
931,337.00
1,201,092.00
Queries per second
9,313,370.00
12,010,920.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
1149.14
468.92
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
137,388.00
140,938.00
Queries per second
1,373,880.00
1,409,380.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.07
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.32
1.49
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.12
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,725.00
6,603.00
Queries per second
47,250.00
66,030.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.78
0.52
Average Latency (ms)
2.11
1.51
Maximum Latency (ms)
4.8
9.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.02
1.96
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
6,047.00
7,697.00
Queries per second
60,470.00
76,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.37
0.49
Average Latency (ms)
1.65
1.3
Maximum Latency (ms)
52.51
4.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
1.7
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,905.00
11,465.00
Queries per second
29,050.00
114,650.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.92
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
3.44
0.87
Maximum Latency (ms)
66.16
43.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
10.09
1.1
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
3,682.00
11,672.00
Queries per second
36,820.00
116,720.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.86
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
2.71
0.86
Maximum Latency (ms)
40.7
24.29
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
7.7
1.1
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
38,236.00
94,623.00
Queries per second
382,360.00
946,230.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.26
0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
20.01
10.28
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.61
0.19
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
56,850.48
38,446.75
PING_MBULK per Second
61,162.08
38,505.97
SET per Second
57,570.52
39,123.63
GET per Second
57,636.89
38,804.81
INCR per Second
59,772.86
39,169.61
LPUSH per Second
57,142.86
39,215.69
RPUSH per Second
56,369.79
39,184.95
LPOP per Second
59,488.40
39,323.63
RPOP per Second
59,488.40
39,093.04
SADD per Second
58,962.27
38,008.36
HSET per Second
44,984.25
40,160.64
SPOP per Second
57,077.62
38,714.67
ZADD per Second
58,548.01
40,064.10
ZPOPMIN per Second
60,240.96
39,169.61
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
30,854.68
25,163.56
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
14,740.57
13,114.75
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,568.59
8,311.86
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
8,655.01
7,606.30
MSET (10 keys) per Second
49,043.65
37,821.48
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.56
0.78
PING_MBULK
0.51
0.78
SET
0.56
0.79
GET
0.55
0.77
INCR
0.53
0.78
LPUSH
0.56
0.79
RPUSH
0.57
0.79
LPOP
0.54
0.80
RPOP
0.54
0.80
SADD
0.54
0.81
HSET
0.79
0.78
SPOP
0.55
0.78
ZADD
0.55
0.78
ZPOPMIN
0.52
0.77
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.11
1.27
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
2.31
2.28
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.10
3.35
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.65
3.57
MSET (10 keys)
0.80
0.86
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on the benchmark results, DigitalOcean's Premium AMD instance outperforms Linode's Nanode instance in most critical metrics. DigitalOcean shows higher Redis request rates per second in key operations like SET, GET, and LPUSH, along with lower average latencies. DigitalOcean also leads in CPU event handling and MySQL bulk insert operations. Linode excels in MySQL bulk insert throughput but falls short in other areas like Redis throughput and CPU latency. For users needing higher CPU performance, lower latencies, and more consistent Redis operations, DigitalOcean's instance is the better choice.
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