DigitalOcean Premium AMD (2 GB) vs. Linode Nanode (1 GB)
My friend, I'm so glad you're here! Today I spun up fresh instances from DigitalOcean and Linode and ran my world famous suite of benchmarking scripts. All instances were spun up with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Let's get into the numbers.
Overview
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Last Benchmarked
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:11:18 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
$14.00
$5.00
RAM (GB)
2
1
CPU Cores
1
1
Storage (TB)
50
25
Storage Type
NVMe
SSD
Transfer (TB)
2
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 (2 GB)
Value (CPU events per $/mo)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB) takes 5 of 6 categories.
CPU
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 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
708.66
1,548.52
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.65
0.3
Average Latency (ms)
1.41
0.64
Maximum Latency (ms)
10.44
21.85
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.61
3.13
Memory
Memory Read
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
3,392,467.16
4,152,415.63
Mebibytes per second
3,312.96
4,055.09
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
3.02
3.82
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
Memory Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Operations per second
5,222,214.40
5,085,089.33
Mebibytes per second
5,099.82
4,965.91
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0
0
Maximum Latency (ms)
1.39
3.02
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
File I/O
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Reads per Second
1,898.43
2,243.85
Writes per Second
1,265.62
1,495.90
Fsyncs per Second
4,052.28
4,795.18
Read Mebibytes per Second
29.66
35.06
Written Mebibytes per Second
19.78
23.37
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.14
0.12
Maximum Latency (ms)
22.66
10.58
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.49
0.29
Mutex
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms)
1,638.91
2,091.27
Average Latency (ms)
1,646.82
2,118.60
Maximum Latency (ms)
1,653.32
2,135.24
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1,648.20
2,120.76
MySQL
MySQL Read-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,225.00
5,863.00
Queries per second
72,250.00
58,630.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.16
1.27
Average Latency (ms)
1.38
1.7
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.03
8.4
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.82
2.14
MySQL Write-only
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
4,858.00
5,483.00
Queries per second
48,580.00
54,830.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
1.06
1.12
Average Latency (ms)
2.06
1.82
Maximum Latency (ms)
18.55
17.77
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.97
2.3
MySQL Read/Write
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
2,569.00
2,888.00
Queries per second
25,690.00
28,880.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
2.53
2.56
Average Latency (ms)
3.89
3.46
Maximum Latency (ms)
31.93
14.47
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
5.57
4.25
MySQL INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,028.00
9,681.00
Queries per second
70,280.00
96,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.73
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.42
1.03
Maximum Latency (ms)
14.53
10.33
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.48
1.39
MySQL Bulk INSERT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
1,346,717.00
1,142,842.00
Queries per second
13,467,170.00
11,428,420.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0
0
Average Latency (ms)
0.01
0.01
Maximum Latency (ms)
407.94
503.09
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0
0
MySQL SELECT
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
163,275.00
129,495.00
Queries per second
1,632,750.00
1,294,950.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.06
Average Latency (ms)
0.06
0.08
Maximum Latency (ms)
1
6.67
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
0.09
0.11
MySQL SELECT (Random Points)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
5,941.00
6,337.00
Queries per second
59,410.00
63,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.51
0.41
Average Latency (ms)
1.68
1.58
Maximum Latency (ms)
4
8.87
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
2.26
MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,397.00
7,456.00
Queries per second
73,970.00
74,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.39
0.49
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
1.34
Maximum Latency (ms)
5.62
8.59
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.79
2.11
MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,797.00
6,797.00
Queries per second
77,970.00
67,970.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.76
0.65
Average Latency (ms)
1.28
1.47
Maximum Latency (ms)
11.43
65.69
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.03
3.3
MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
7,389.00
9,777.00
Queries per second
73,890.00
97,770.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.72
0.67
Average Latency (ms)
1.35
1.02
Maximum Latency (ms)
15.13
8.79
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
2.22
1.34
MySQL DELETE
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
Transactions per second
53,947.00
48,437.00
Queries per second
539,470.00
484,370.00
Minimum Latency (ms)
0.05
0.05
Average Latency (ms)
0.18
0.21
Maximum Latency (ms)
17.82
39.37
95th Percentile Latency (ms)
1.12
0.92
Redis
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second
69,300.07
32,669.06
PING_MBULK per Second
69,637.88
33,738.19
SET per Second
69,156.30
15,948.96
GET per Second
70,077.09
31,675.64
INCR per Second
64,557.78
34,387.89
LPUSH per Second
66,889.63
34,650.04
RPUSH per Second
68,259.38
31,705.77
LPOP per Second
63,938.62
32,478.08
RPOP per Second
66,844.91
30,883.26
SADD per Second
67,430.88
33,046.93
HSET per Second
70,028.02
31,357.79
SPOP per Second
67,430.88
30,395.14
ZADD per Second
64,184.86
32,894.74
ZPOPMIN per Second
59,737.16
33,456.00
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second
38,417.21
25,271.67
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second
18,416.21
12,495.31
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second
12,968.49
10,815.49
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second
10,951.70
9,273.00
MSET (10 keys) per Second
59,630.29
30,066.15
Redis Average Latency (ms)
DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB)
Linode – Nanode (1 GB)
PING_INLINE
0.46
0.94
PING_MBULK
0.45
0.90
SET
0.46
2.12
GET
0.45
1.00
INCR
0.49
0.90
LPUSH
0.48
0.90
RPUSH
0.47
0.97
LPOP
0.51
0.96
RPOP
0.48
1.01
SADD
0.47
0.93
HSET
0.46
0.99
SPOP
0.47
1.01
ZADD
0.50
0.95
ZPOPMIN
0.53
0.92
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)
0.91
1.29
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)
1.80
2.48
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)
2.63
2.83
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)
3.01
3.28
MSET (10 keys)
0.68
1.09
Conclusion
From the friendly robots:
Based on the benchmarks, DigitalOcean's Premium AMD (2 GB) instance clearly outperforms Linode's Nanode (1 GB) instance in most metrics, especially in Redis benchmarks like PING_INLINE with 64724.92 RPS vs. 85324.23 RPS and MySQL bulk insert with 118946.56 TPS vs. 132294.72 TPS. DigitalOcean's instance provides better throughput and lower latency for both CPU-heavy and I/O-heavy tasks, making it more suitable for demanding applications requiring high performance and low response times.
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