DigitalOcean Premium AMD (1 GB) vs. Linode Linode (2 GB)
Same showdown, different day. Today I've got brand new instances from DigitalOcean and Linode and ran some benchmarks. Each instance was running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and all resided in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Enough talk. Here's the data.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:09:47 GMT
Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:04:32 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
$12.00
RAM (GB)
1
2
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
25
50
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
1
2
Head-to-head
Category winners from the latest benchmarks.
Category
Winner
CPU (events/sec)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Memory (read MiB/s)
Linode – (2 GB)
Disk I/O (MiB/s)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
MySQL (read/write tps)
Linode – (2 GB)
Redis (GET/sec)
Linode – (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Evenly matched across 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Vendor
AuthenticAMD
AuthenticAMD
Model Name
DO-Premium-AMD
AMD EPYC 7642 48-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz)
1,996.25
2,300.00
CPU Cache Size (KB)
512.00
512.00
BogoMips
3,992.49
4,600.00
Events per Second
1,324.09
737.68
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.66
Average Latency (ms)
0.75
1.35
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.68
10.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.81
2.52
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,911,179.23
5,317,370.64
Mebibytes per second
4,796.07
5,192.74
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.42
7.57
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Operations per second
4,739,304.36
5,086,007.31
Mebibytes per second
4,628.23
4,966.80
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
0.68
5.07
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Reads per Second
1,630.22
1,006.42
Writes per Second
1,086.81
670.92
Fsyncs per Second
3,484.79
2,147.89
Read Mebibytes per Second
25.47
15.73
Written Mebibytes per Second
16.98
10.48
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.16
0.26
Maximum Latency (ms)
7.68
138.62
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.54
0.56
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,821.68
1,559.26
Average Latency (ms)
1,829.83
1,564.38
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,839.40
1,570.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,836.24
1,561.52
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,287.00
8,336.00
Queries per second
62,870.00
83,360.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.22
1.15
Average Latency (ms)
1.59
1.2
Maximum Latency (ms)
139.73
6.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2
1.32
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
3,386.00
7,039.00
Queries per second
33,860.00
70,390.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.26
1.01
Average Latency (ms)
2.95
1.42
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.46
150.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.37
1.76
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,941.00
3,717.00
Queries per second
19,410.00
37,170.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.76
2.29
Average Latency (ms)
5.15
2.69
Maximum Latency (ms)
56.29
26.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
8.28
3.19
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,930.00
11,835.00
Queries per second
59,300.00
118,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.76
0.61
Average Latency (ms)
1.68
0.84
Maximum Latency (ms)
13.82
6.31
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.13
1.12
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
1,259,342.00
1,288,467.00
Queries per second
12,593,420.00
12,884,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
524.15
393.46
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
132,782.00
179,147.00
Queries per second
1,327,820.00
1,791,470.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.07
0.06
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.64
5.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.11
0.07
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
4,504.00
6,122.00
Queries per second
45,040.00
61,220.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.64
0.55
Average Latency (ms)
2.22
1.63
Maximum Latency (ms)
6.76
8.04
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
3.3
2.52
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,228.00
7,561.00
Queries per second
62,280.00
75,610.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.54
0.5
Average Latency (ms)
1.6
1.32
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.59
6.3
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.3
1.73
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
5,980.00
11,379.00
Queries per second
59,800.00
113,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.79
0.62
Average Latency (ms)
1.67
0.88
Maximum Latency (ms)
36.23
5.5
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.81
1.14
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
6,226.00
12,535.00
Queries per second
62,260.00
125,350.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.8
0.59
Average Latency (ms)
1.6
0.8
Maximum Latency (ms)
29.46
5.91
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.66
0.99
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
Transactions per second
57,959.00
93,260.00
Queries per second
579,590.00
932,600.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.04
Average Latency (ms)
0.17
0.11
Maximum Latency (ms)
98.1
106.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.08
0.17
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
62,073.25
76,103.50
PING_MBULK per Second
63,451.78
75,930.14
SET per Second
64,516.13
76,923.08
GET per Second
65,189.05
77,579.52
INCR per Second
60,350.03
77,639.75
LPUSH per Second
60,168.47
77,459.34
RPUSH per Second
60,496.07
76,569.68
LPOP per Second
60,864.27
76,103.50
RPOP per Second
64,557.78
77,220.08
SADD per Second
59,630.29
78,554.59
HSET per Second
60,350.03
78,369.91
SPOP per Second
60,024.01
78,864.35
ZADD per Second
62,034.74
75,244.55
ZPOPMIN per Second
63,211.12
72,621.64
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
33,967.39
41,017.23
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
17,322.02
19,712.20
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
10,161.57
12,941.63
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
9,291.09
11,352.03
MSET (10 keys) per Second
52,548.61
65,104.17
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB)
Linode – (2 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.51
0.42
PING_MBULK
0.49
0.41
SET
0.49
0.42
GET
0.48
0.41
INCR
0.52
0.41
LPUSH
0.53
0.42
RPUSH
0.53
0.42
LPOP
0.52
0.43
RPOP
0.49
0.42
SADD
0.53
0.41
HSET
0.53
0.41
SPOP
0.52
0.40
ZADD
0.51
0.43
ZPOPMIN
0.50
0.43
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
1.01
0.87
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.94
1.70
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
3.20
2.66
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.48
2.98
MSET (10 keys)
0.75
0.64
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
The Linode instance (Linode g6-standard-1) performs notably better in the benchmarks, particularly in Redis benchmarks with significantly higher request per second (rps) and lower latency metrics compared to the DigitalOcean instance. The Linode instance achieves an impressive 76103.5 rps with minimal latency for Redis PING_INLINE, while the DigitalOcean instance lags behind with 62073.25 rps. For use cases requiring high throughput and low latency, such as real-time databases or cache servers, the Linode instance is the superior choice. However, for budget-conscious users needing a reliable yet cost-effective solution, the DigitalOcean instance offers respectable performance at a lower price point.
From the friendly human:
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