DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) vs. Linode Linode (4 GB)

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New day, new benchmarks. Today I've spun up brand new instance from DigitalOcean and Linode and did some benchmarking. Each instance was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 and were created in or around the New York / New Jersey area. Time to see who showed up today.

Overview

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Last Benchmarked Sat, 30 May 2026 08:00:52 GMT Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:52 GMT
Linux Distro Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x64
Kernel Version 6.8.0-71-generic 6.8.0-111-generic
MySQL Version 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 8.0.45-0ubuntu0.24.04.1
Redis Version 7.0.15 7.0.15
Location New York, NY Newark, NJ
Monthly Price $48.00 $24.00
RAM (GB) 8 4
CPU Cores 4 2
Storage (TB) 160 80
Storage Type SSD SSD
Transfer (TB) 5 4

CPU

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Vendor GenuineIntel AuthenticAMD
Model Name DO-Regular AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Clock Speed (MHz) 2,494.14 2,000.00
CPU Cache Size (KB) 4,096.00 512.00
BogoMips 4,988.28 3,999.99
Events per Second 938.83 3,444.02
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.91 0.28
Average Latency (ms) 1.06 0.29
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.5 4.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.3 0.3

Memory

Memory Read

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Operations per second 4,460,139.75 5,349,213.60
Mebibytes per second 4,355.61 5,223.84
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.18 3.16
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

Memory Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Operations per second 4,541,000.65 5,332,401.09
Mebibytes per second 4,434.57 5,207.42
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0 0
Maximum Latency (ms) 0.14 3.25
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

File I/O

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Reads per Second 5,970.38 3,325.24
Writes per Second 3,980.26 2,216.89
Fsyncs per Second 12,748.01 7,095.98
Read Mebibytes per Second 93.29 51.96
Written Mebibytes per Second 62.19 34.64
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.04 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 7.01 13.12
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.17 0.22

Mutex

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Minimum Latency (ms) 529.88 864.93
Average Latency (ms) 651.33 931.61
Maximum Latency (ms) 751.48 968.34
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 746.32 960.30

MySQL

MySQL Read-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 5,888.00 5,919.00
Queries per second 58,880.00 59,190.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.23 1.29
Average Latency (ms) 1.7 1.69
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.11 8
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.22 2.03

MySQL Write-only

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 5,011.00 5,152.00
Queries per second 50,110.00 51,520.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 1.07 1.22
Average Latency (ms) 1.99 1.94
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.81 24.88
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.71 2.52

MySQL Read/Write

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 2,283.00 2,609.00
Queries per second 22,830.00 26,090.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 2.84 2.83
Average Latency (ms) 4.37 3.83
Maximum Latency (ms) 22.34 8.83
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 5.57 4.74

MySQL INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 7,573.00 7,493.00
Queries per second 75,730.00 74,930.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.59 0.73
Average Latency (ms) 1.32 1.33
Maximum Latency (ms) 6.62 15.06
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.93 1.86

MySQL Bulk INSERT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 1,317,592.00 1,754,467.00
Queries per second 13,175,920.00 17,544,670.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0 0
Average Latency (ms) 0.01 0.01
Maximum Latency (ms) 433.34 418.75
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0 0

MySQL SELECT

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 164,308.00 130,180.00
Queries per second 1,643,080.00 1,301,800.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.05
Average Latency (ms) 0.06 0.08
Maximum Latency (ms) 1.3 4.63
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 0.09 0.1

MySQL SELECT (Random Points)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 5,923.00 8,212.00
Queries per second 59,230.00 82,120.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.55 0.33
Average Latency (ms) 1.69 1.22
Maximum Latency (ms) 4.92 11.27
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.43 2.3

MySQL SELECT (Random Ranges)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 5,984.00 8,956.00
Queries per second 59,840.00 89,560.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.57 0.42
Average Latency (ms) 1.67 1.12
Maximum Latency (ms) 3.94 4.66
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.71 1.44

MySQL UPDATE (Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 6,760.00 7,381.00
Queries per second 67,600.00 73,810.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.74 0.81
Average Latency (ms) 1.48 1.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 8.37 8.43
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 2.14 1.76

MySQL UPDATE (Non-Indexed)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 7,480.00 7,379.00
Queries per second 74,800.00 73,790.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.63 0.82
Average Latency (ms) 1.34 1.35
Maximum Latency (ms) 10.16 7.2
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.93 1.73

MySQL DELETE

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
Transactions per second 66,536.00 58,502.00
Queries per second 665,360.00 585,020.00
Minimum Latency (ms) 0.04 0.04
Average Latency (ms) 0.15 0.17
Maximum Latency (ms) 9.27 8.26
95th Percentile Latency (ms) 1.01 1.14

Redis

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
PING_INLINE per Second 54,141.85 44,444.45
PING_MBULK per Second 67,114.09 42,158.52
SET per Second 62,972.29 43,725.41
GET per Second 63,979.53 43,084.88
INCR per Second 64,474.53 43,917.44
LPUSH per Second 61,996.28 44,169.61
RPUSH per Second 60,753.34 42,918.46
LPOP per Second 65,616.80 43,630.02
RPOP per Second 64,061.50 42,900.04
SADD per Second 63,091.48 43,066.32
HSET per Second 65,274.15 42,826.55
SPOP per Second 64,516.13 43,821.21
ZADD per Second 62,578.22 43,706.29
ZPOPMIN per Second 62,111.80 46,554.93
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements) per Second 44,642.86 30,084.24
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements) per Second 18,018.02 21,141.65
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements) per Second 14,365.75 17,825.31
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements) per Second 10,829.54 15,969.34
MSET (10 keys) per Second 62,266.50 45,578.85

Redis Average Latency (ms)

DigitalOcean – Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) Linode – (4 GB)
PING_INLINE0.490.58
PING_MBULK0.390.61
SET0.430.59
GET0.420.60
INCR0.420.59
LPUSH0.430.58
RPUSH0.430.60
LPOP0.420.59
RPOP0.440.60
SADD0.410.60
HSET0.400.60
SPOP0.410.59
ZADD0.470.59
ZPOPMIN0.430.55
LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements)0.660.89
LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements)1.531.25
LRANGE_500 (first 500 elements)2.181.50
LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements)2.711.59
MSET (10 keys)0.620.57

Conclusion

From the friendly robots:

When comparing the benchmarks for both instances, the DigitalOcean Regular (8 GB, 4 Cores) configuration shows higher performance in memory operations and Redis benchmarks with significantly higher requests per second and lower average latencies. The Linode (4 GB) instance, though having less RAM and CPU cores, also performs well but lags behind DigitalOcean in certain metrics, particularly in more intensive memory and I/O operations. Given these results, the DigitalOcean instance would be more suited for CPU-intensive and I/O-heavy workloads requiring higher throughput and lower latencies, while the Linode instance could be better for lighter workloads where the lower cost is a priority despite slightly lower performance.

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