VPS Leaderboard
Best CPU
Ranked by sysbench CPU throughput (events per second, single-threaded). Higher is faster.
| # | Instance | events/sec | $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | UpCloud – Balanced (2 GB) | 5,201 events/sec | $13 |
| 🥈 | UpCloud – Balanced (1 GB) | 4,898 events/sec | $7 |
| 🥉 | Vultr – High Performance AMD (1 GB) | 4,265 events/sec | $6 |
| 4 | Vultr – High Performance AMD (2 GB) | 4,236 events/sec | $12 |
| 5 | DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (1 GB) | 2,020 events/sec | $8 |
| 6 | DigitalOcean – Premium Intel (2 GB) | 1,916 events/sec | $16 |
| 7 | Linode – Nanode (1 GB) | 1,479 events/sec | $5 |
| 8 | Vultr – High Frequency Intel (1 GB) | 1,436 events/sec | $6 |
| 9 | Vultr – High Frequency Intel (2 GB) | 1,434 events/sec | $12 |
| 10 | DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (1 GB) | 1,406 events/sec | $7 |
| 11 | DigitalOcean – Regular (2 GB) | 1,294 events/sec | $12 |
| 12 | Vultr – High Performance Intel (2 GB) | 1,011 events/sec | $12 |
| 13 | Vultr – High Performance Intel (1 GB) | 996 events/sec | $6 |
| 14 | Vultr – Cloud Compute (2 GB) | 811 events/sec | $10 |
| 15 | DigitalOcean – Regular (1 GB) | 773 events/sec | $6 |
| 16 | Vultr – Cloud Compute (1 GB) | 747 events/sec | $5 |
| 17 | Linode – Linode (2 GB) | 738 events/sec | $12 |
| 18 | DigitalOcean – Premium AMD (2 GB) | 644 events/sec | $14 |
Every instance runs the same benchmark suite on the same OS — numbers are from the latest monthly run. How we test →